Charles Leclerc says his good relationship with Alfa Romeo’s Frédéric Vasseur should not affect Ferrari’s choice relating to who it’s going to select because the Scuderia’s subsequent group principal.
Following the resignation final week of Scuderia chief Mattia Binotto, Ferrari’s high brass stated that it will title the Italian’s successor a while over the brand new 12 months.
Vasseur is taken into account as a number one candidate for the function, and the Frenchman’s appointment by Ferrari would doubtless additionally swimsuit Leclerc, whose early years in motorsport and formative 12 months in Method 1 have been overseen by the present Alfa group boss.
On Friday, within the FIA Gala press convention in Bologna, Leclerc was requested about his ideas on Vasseur taking the helm of the Scuderia.
“Ferrari is a really completely different group to some other group,” stated the Monegasque. “I can solely touch upon my expertise with Fred which clearly has been good.
“I’ve been working with Fred already from the junior classes the place he has believed in me and we’ve at all times had relationship.
“However other than that, clearly this shouldn’t affect any of the opposite choices.
“He has at all times been very simple, very sincere and that is one thing that I favored from Fred. Whether or not it will likely be him or not, I don’t know, and we’ll see hopefully within the within the subsequent few months.”
Leclerc made clear {that a} last choice relating to who will lead the Scuderia from subsequent season might be made by Ferrari chairman John Elkann and firm CEO Benedetto Vigna.
“Clearly it’s additionally not my choice, John and Benedetto are going to take the choice,” he stated.
“We’re simply making an attempt to focus our job on the simulator with the group with the intention to have the very best race automobile attainable for subsequent 12 months.”
Requested if a change of group principal would require a prolonged interval of adaptation, which in flip may dampen Ferrari’s profitable ambitions subsequent 12 months, Leclerc stated that he was assured of the Italian outfit present process a “easy transition”.
“It would most likely require a little bit of time, to turn into comfortable with the system and with Ferrari as a result of its clearly an enormous group,” he stated.
“However I imagine that if it is accomplished the correct means, I do not assume we’ll endure of it on the observe, so I am fairly certain it will be a easy transition.”
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Leclerc additionally revealed that Binotto had known as him earlier than he handed in his resignation to Elkann as he wished to present the Ferrari driver a heads up on the state of affairs.
“Mattia known as me to announce that he’ll cease,” he stated. “I respect his choice and I can solely thank him.
“Clearly he has believed in me proper from the beginning. He prolonged me with a really, very lengthy contract.
“And earlier than being group principal, he was additionally contained in the Scuderia for a lot of, a few years and he has contributed to the success that the group had within the prior to now years.
“So I want him the very best and clearly now it’s as much as us to deal with the long run, attempt to take the correct selections with the intention to be a bit extra of a problem to Purple Bull subsequent 12 months.”
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