Ferrari has hinted that a much-awaited upgrade could appear at Formula 1's Austrian Grand Prix, but it will not cure the key issue where team boss Fred Vasseur says it "failed massively" again in Canada last weekend.
Both Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc have talked openly about the need for the team to deliver developments to its SF-25 car - as they feel it has reached the limit of its potential.
There is an accepted view that Ferrari's 2025 car has a key weakness in not being able to run as close to the ground as the team would like in races because it risks wearing the plank down. This problem is especially amplified in tracks with high-speed corners, where the extra loads push it even closer to the track.
One upgrade that the team is believed to be working on is a revamped rear suspension, which could help the car better cope with the loads put through it in fast corners – and therefore allow it to run in a better ride-height window.
Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has been reticent to offer any details about what the specific car weakness is though, nor what changes are coming beyond that something is arriving soon.
However, he has played down talk of any upgrade being critical to helping Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton deliver better results. That is because he is adamant Ferrari's main weakness right now is in not extracting everything it has from its car - which is something that will not be solved by developments.
Speaking about the update plan, Vasseur said: “We will have an upgrade soon, before the UK. And perhaps another one a bit later.
“But honestly today, I think there is much more into the execution and what you are getting from the car than into the potential of the car itself.
“Now we are at the end of the life of these regulations, and we all know that when we are bringing something on track we are more speaking about hundredths than tenths. And if you don't do a good usage of the car, because the set-up is a bit different, you can lose tenths.
“A couple of times, on our side at least, and we are not the only one, when we brought upgrades in the past, we needed also one or two races to adapt the car, the set-up to the new version.
“Honestly I think that, and I want to put the focus on the team, there is much more [to come from] the execution than the pure potential of the car. But we will bring something.”