The Miami weekend, the second Sprint weekend of the 2025 championship, brought little satisfaction to Maranello. Ferrari fails to build on the podium in Jeddah and ends up stuck in no man’s land: Leclerc and Hamilton are battling with Williams in qualifying and race, while the top teams run away at the front. Ferrari now heads to Imola with additional worries: Vasseur’s team must now deal with a double alarm that may hint at engine problems.
Ferrari lacks both consistency and performance: after the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, which ended in smiles thanks to Leclerc’s podium, the team fails to repeat that strong showing in Florida. In Miami, Ferrari struggles right from Sprint qualifying on Friday and proves to be far off the pace of the front-runners, from McLaren to Red Bull and Mercedes. Hamilton’s elimination in Q2 cast a shadow over the faces of the Scuderia’s staff, aware of the need to roll up their sleeves and improve a car that remains indecipherable and worlds away from the winter expectations.
“We’re even behind the Williams,” thundered Charles Leclerc after Saturday’s qualifying. The Monegasque driver, like his British teammate, is struggling to truly understand the SF-25, which at the moment has clearly insufficient potential.
Ferrari Problems: Are the Engines Now a Concern? The Double Retirement in Miami
Performance isn’t the only concern for Frédéric Vasseur’s team. On Sunday in Miami, Ferrari, in its role as engine supplier, had to look anxiously toward the garages of its customer teams. Midway through the U.S. Grand Prix, two cars were forced to retire due to engine problems: Oliver Bearman’s Haas and Gabriel Bortoleto’s Sauber, both powered by Ferrari power units.
One incident might be coincidence, but two could be a troubling sign for the Modena-based team. It will be interesting to gauge the mood within Ferrari after this double issue with Gabriel Bortoleto’s and Oliver Bearman’s engines.
Certainly, the British rookie from Haas—a young talent from the Ferrari Driver Academy—did not take the sudden retirement in Miami well. Over team radio, the Brit exclaimed: “Oh my God, I’ve lost… everything!
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