The designation F1-75 commemorated the 75th anniversary of the first Ferrari production car rolling out of the factory in Maranello. The team launched the car ahead of the 2022 season with high expectations under the new ground-effect regulations, which represented the most extensive overhaul of Formula One technical rules in a generation.
The F1-75 opened the year with a commanding performance at the Bahrain Grand Prix, where Leclerc took victory. He followed that with another win in Australia, completing a grand slam. The car demonstrated superior cornering speeds compared to the rival Red Bull RB18, though Red Bull held an advantage on the straights. Leclerc secured four consecutive pole positions from Miami to Baku without converting them to race victories, a sequence that exposed both reliability and strategic weaknesses. Sainz took Ferrari's third win of the year at the British Grand Prix; Leclerc added a fourth victory in Austria for his fifth career win.
The car achieved 20 podiums across its 22 races, a strong tally that nonetheless fell short of a championship challenge as the season progressed.
Despite its early promise the F1-75 was hampered by porpoising — the bouncing phenomenon affecting many ground-effect cars in 2022 — and by engine reliability failures. Ferrari introduced engine power reductions at the Belgian Grand Prix to protect the power unit. The FIA's Technical Directive 39, issued during the season to address porpoising across the field, was reported to have increased subsequent tyre wear on the car. Cost-cap constraints limited Ferrari's ability to develop the car in the second half of the year, preventing the team from closing the performance gap that opened in the summer months.
Following the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix the FIA investigated whether the F1-75 had run with a new floor specification during a tyre test that had not been previously used in competition. The FIA ruled that the floor had been used during pre-season testing and that it was therefore compliant with the regulations.
The F1-75 featured Santander branding for the first time since the SF70H in 2017, following renewed sponsorship from the bank. At the Italian Grand Prix — Ferrari's home race — the car ran in a special livery with yellow-dash graphics to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Ferrari road cars.
The F1-75 ended a long drought of race victories for Ferrari and demonstrated that the team could produce a front-running car under a new regulatory framework. Its early-season dominance showed Ferrari's engineering depth, while the reliability failures and strategic missteps that allowed Red Bull to pull clear became important lessons for the team's subsequent development programmes.