Ferrari dusts off 2024 rear wing for Monza power run after Zandvoort bruiser
Ferrari’s response to its Zandvoort hangover is simple: go light, go low, and go back to what worked. The Scuderia has arrived at Monza with a 2024-spec rear wing and beam wing bolted to the SF-25, chasing straight-line speed and a clean weekend after that double shunt in the Netherlands.
Both Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton binned it at the same corner at Zandvoort — a first double retirement of 2025 and the sort of weekend that lingers. Monza offers the opposite kind of challenge and, more importantly, a reset. Ferrari’s brought the thinner furniture: carried-over low-downforce components from last year and a shorter-chord front-wing flap tailored for the Temple of Speed.
There’s a strategic calm to the call. Ferrari sits second in the Constructors’ standings with nine races to go, holding a 12-point buffer over Mercedes. The team doesn’t need to reinvent the car; it needs to bank points — and if the stars align, a podium on home soil. It’s worth remembering: Ferrari ended its Monza drought last year, Leclerc fending off both McLarens to send the grandstands into orbit.
We’ve seen this movie already in 2025. Ferrari reintroduced a 2024-spec rear wing at Monaco in May and Leclerc chased Lando Norris to the flag. Different track, same principle: when the team trusts a known aero solution, the car behaves. With Hamilton still settling into Ferrari life and Leclerc laser-focused at home, the SF-25’s trimmed-out configuration is a statement of intent rather than a gamble.
It’ll need to be, because everyone’s brought their low-drag homework to Italy. The Monza upgrade sheet is a roll call of shaved chords and tidy aero surfaces — some of it one-off, some of it proper performance.
What’s changed up and down the pit lane
– Ferrari: 2024-spec rear wing and beam wing return for low drag; shorter-chord front-wing flap to suit Monza’s long straights and big braking zones.
– McLaren: Five updates in all, four of them circuit-specific tweaks headlined by revised front and rear wings and a new beam wing. The lone performance change is a reprofiled front suspension fairing to condition flow with the low-drag set-up on the MCL39.
– Mercedes: Refinement rather than overhaul — a revised rear-wing tip treatment plus updates to floor fences and the front wing.
– Red Bull: All business. Four performance-led changes including shorter-chord front-wing flaps, reworked floor surfaces, new fence geometries and a tweaked floor-edge wing, all aimed at dialing up local load without paying a drag penalty.
– Aston Martin: A new flap option on the existing rear wing with “reduced aggression” for this circuit’s efficiency window.
– Haas: Slightly reduced front-wing chord length to help the aero balance in low-drag trim.
– RB (Racing Bulls): Riding the momentum of Isack Hadjar’s Zandvoort podium, they’ve brought four changes — two for performance (underfloor and edge wing reshaped for local load; revised coke-bottle/engine cover to clean up rear flow) and two circuit-specific (upper rear wing profile and a new mirror housing to hit the downforce/efficiency target).
– Williams: One eye on top speed, one on balance. A performance tweak to the rear wing to cut drag, plus a circuit-specific reduction in the upper flap area. The team notes a front-wing trim can be run regardless of the rear configuration.
– Sauber and Alpine: No new parts listed for Monza.
On paper, that points to a classic Monza qualifying: minimal wing, maximum tow, and a bit of gamesmanship when it matters. Out on Sunday, it’s the usual compromise — keep the car slippery but stable enough under braking to attack into Turn 1 and keep the tyres alive through the Lesmos and Ascari.
For Ferrari, the bigger picture is as important as the optics. Second in the championship with the season deep in the back nine is a solid place to be, but Zandvoort was a shock to the system and the team can’t afford another zero. Hamilton, ever the pragmatist, will want a clean platform to rebuild after his Dutch trip ended in the wall. Leclerc, back in front of the tifosi, knows what a Monza podium does for momentum — and for Sunday night in Italy.
The SF-25’s trimmed rear wing is a nod to familiarity at a venue that rewards it. And if Ferrari gets its sums right, the car should be lively where it needs to be: through the speed trap and under the brakes. That’s usually a decent recipe around here.
Monza doesn’t forgive much, but it does reward a team with clarity. Ferrari’s brought exactly that. Now it’s down to execution.
