Ferrari to delay next update package: SF-25 upgrades now set for Imola. • New Floor, Same Goals: Ferrari Adjusts Update Strategy for Imola.

Ferrari started this season with a gap compared to its rivals, often finding itself as the tail-end of the top teams; and on such a tight grid, every hundredth lost means starting even two rows further back. The engineers in Maranello certainly didn’t sit idly by and worked to bring a new floor to Bahrain, which was not part of the original season plan, in order to regain some performance.

The first update package was scheduled for the Miami GP, but it will probably debut one race later, in Imola. In fact, as Frederic Vasseur explained to the media, the Sprint format we’ll see overseas won’t allow for proper testing of new components. With only one hour before qualifying, there won’t be time to perform the cross-checks that teams like so much, such as having one driver test the updates first and then the other, so they can give feedback by comparing with the previous version.