Hamilton’s wish could derail Ferrari’s 2025 hopes—Big shift coming?

For Ferrari it's been a rather underwhelming year given the lofty expectations the team had having come so close to snacthing the 2024 Constructors' title from McLaren in the last race of the season in Abu Dhabi.

This year they've only scored three podiums off the back of Charles Leclerc in Saudi Arabia, Monaco and Spain, where a late safety car brought the Monegasque back into play.

This year Ferrari have been battling with a ride-height issue where they are forced to setup the car higher, thus neglecting performance. This proved to be a major issue when following the Chinese Grand Prix both Hamilton as well as Leclerc were disqualified due to excessive wear to the skid blocks.

According to PlanetF1, Ferrari are currently working on a major update to their rear suspension, which has been reported that it collapses to the tarmac upon load, causing the excess wear to the skid blocks.

Though the upgrade is reportedly intended to be implemented during the British Grand Prix, Auto Racer reports that Ferrari could be switching full-on focus to 2026 since later this month.

The Italian website believes that operations on the SF-25 will be halted to be able to provide Project 678, Ferrari's 2026 F1 program with 'total space' in the wind tunnel, something Hamilton openly admitted would push for following the Spanish Grand Prix where hehad to concede a position to teammate Leclerc and where he was overtaken by Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg.

After the Spanish Grand Prix Hamilton said to media like GPblog: “If I’m honest, I don’t know what upgrades we have coming [for F1 2025], but we haven’t had an upgrade for some time."

In fact, he opted not to answer on whether a full focus approach toward the 2026 car had already been adopted by the Maranello-based squad.