The WEC prologue at Imola has delivered its verdict, and it's a good one for the red cars. Ferrari swept the top 3 in the pre-season test, with Antonio Fuoco leading a full 499P 1-2-3 ahead of Robert Kubica and Antonio Giovinazzi. Worth noting: the track was wet for much of the day, which means this wasn't just a dry-pace flex — it was a wet-weather confidence builder across all three cars simultaneously. Hard to read too much into a prologue, but a clean sweep on home soil, on a tricky surface, is exactly the kind of signal you want heading into the competitive rounds.

For context, the recent briefing flagged Imola as the first real data point for whether Ferrari remains the hypercar class benchmark after their strong 2024. On day one of actual running, that question has been answered with something close to a shrug — they were simply quickest, Fuoco to Giovinazzi.