I didn't get a good feeling when Ferrari said last season that they were going to completely redo their suspension design in the last year of these regs, and this is why. It takes too much time to understand a new suspension setup and have it mesh with the rest of your car.
Interestingly, Charles was complaining a ton in the sprint and the main race that the Ferrari couldn't get the rear traction out of the turn that leads onto the long straight to overtake the Merc, despite the Ferrari being clearly quicker overall. Watching his onbaord, he would be following George extremely closely through all the turns and then lose 2-3 tenths accelerating out of that corner, making an overtake on the straight basically impossible. I would assume this is the reason for that as well as the excessive plank wear they've seen the last two races. If they can't quickly figure out a fix besides raising the car, then this year is over and might as well move on to 2026.
Good. Yuki has proved himself way more and should have gotten the seat anyways. Lawson was a pretty meh prospect coming out of his junior career anyways, so it's not like he has all this untapped potential.