Ferrari’s plans for its 2025 F1 car are “already well advanced” and the team will accelerate ideas from “Project 677” and implement them into its 2024 F1 chassis before Lewis Hamilton’s arrival.

Hamilton shocked the F1 world in February by announcing that he would join Ferrari on a multi-year contract starting in F1 2025, ending his long and successful association with Mercedes.

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The British driver has won six of his seven world championships with Mercedes and is the first man in history to achieve more than 100 Grand Prix victories and pole positions since joining the team from McLaren in 2013.

Hamilton has returned to his best form in recent times, ending the longest winless streak of his career with an emotional victory at his home race at Silverstone last month.

He then took his record-breaking 105th victory at the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa, inheriting first place after his Mercedes teammate George Russell was disqualified.

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According to reports from Italy, Ferrari will adopt a new design concept for its F1 2025 car, including a revised wheelbase and a switch to a pullrod front suspension.

The change in philosophy regarding the suspension is said to be influenced by the impending arrival of Hamilton, whose driving style is more similar to that of Charles Leclerc than that of the current incumbent Carlos Sainz.

A pullrod front suspension, as currently used by Red Bull and McLaren, among others, is expected to bring significant aerodynamic benefits by improving airflow at the front of the car and in particular at the complex underbody, which generates a large proportion of the car’s overall downforce under current ground effect rules.

Ferrari falls behind Red Bull, McLaren and Mercedes in the race for 2024 F1 development, according to a report by Italian publication The Sports Newspaper has claimed that the team is planning a “revival phase” for the remaining 10 races of the season.

The team’s goal is to quickly transfer ideas from its F1 2025 car, codenamed Project 677, to the current SF-24.

The developments will not only be of an aerodynamic nature, but will also involve changes to the suspension, with “non-invasive” changes to the internal kinematics also being planned.

The changes are a direct result of the “already advanced study” of Project 677 and a comparative analysis between the SF-24 suspension and the pullrod solution planned for F1 2025.

Ferrari’s chassis design has been scrutinized throughout the Ground Effect era. The Scuderia and customer team Haas are the only teams that still use a pullrod rear suspension. All other teams compete with a pushrod rear suspension.

The decision to pursue a new chassis philosophy follows the departure of Technical Director Enrico Cardile, who recently announced that he will join Aston Martin in F1 in 2025.

Speaking to media, including PlanetF1.com, at the launch of the Ferrari SF-24 in February, Cardile stressed that Ferrari could not identify any significant differences between the rear suspension with pullrods or pushroads.

He said: “In fact, our rear suspension is slightly different to Red Bull, to name just one team, in terms of upper and lower wishbone distribution.

“We have achieved good aerodynamic results in this direction and in the change from the pull rod to the bumper.

“We couldn’t see any major benefit that would justify compromising on weight or compliance, so we developed our suspension based on that, but kept the same layout.”

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