Jarno Trulli: “Ferrari lacks a technical director, it reminds me of my 2009 Toyota”. Jarno Trulli compares Ferrari’s troubled 2025 season to his inconsistent Toyota from 2009.

The Red Team is still winless
The treble of the ‘cousins’ in the WEC and Mercedes’ first victory on pure performance without any particular ‘assistance’ from off-script events: last Sunday, Scuderia Ferrari recorded two facts that further increase the already critical level of pressure surrounding the team led in the factory and on track by Frederic Vasseur.

After 10 races, Ferrari is still without a win, unlike McLaren (seven), Red Bull (two), and Mercedes (one). Compared to 2024, Ferrari is trailing itself by two victories, as Carlos Sainz won in Australia and Charles Leclerc triumphed at home in Monaco. The Monegasque driver is 94 points behind Oscar Piastri in the Drivers’ standings, and Lewis Hamilton is even further back and more discouraged than his teammate (the seven-time world champion said in Canada that Ferrari cannot aim for the championship this year and that with the updates, there might be some particularly good weekends, but they will be isolated episodes).

Jarno Trulli, in an interview with La Stampa (available in newsstands today), analyzed from his perspective what Ferrari is missing to take the final step toward consistent top-level performance, comparing this Ferrari season to his own experience as a Toyota driver in 2009: “I get the feeling that the SF-25 is not a terrible car, but very difficult to set up and inconsistent in performance. Fast in Monte Carlo, a distant relative on other tracks. That means there’s something good in it, but the team can’t extract it. It feels like they lack a technical director—last year, there was a certain Adrian Newey around. Maranello needs someone to design the car and make it competitive for 2026. This situation is very similar to what I experienced with Toyota in 2009, a car that was only competitive at times. It alternated between great results and disappointing ones, against our expectations. In Bahrain, I surprisingly took pole; two GPs later in Monte Carlo, my teammate Timo Glock and I started last and second to last.” – the former Formula 1 driver pointed out.