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An Italian F1 journalist recently said it was an “open secret” that Charles Leclerc is talking to Mercedes. Ferrari’s team boss Frederic Vasseur gives his comments.
Earlier this week, a well-known Italian F1 journalist Leo Turrini claimed that Charles Leclerc is talking to Mercedes about a potential seat.
Ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Ferrari team boss Frederic Vasseur gave his comments on Leclerc’s commitment to his team.
“Charles is an important pillar of the performance, and he has to play the role in the car, outside of the car, to be a performance contributor and he’s fully supportive on this part of the job,” Vasseur said.
“I’m really convinced it is also a personal commitment from him. He’s clearly part of the project. He’s not a spectator of this, he is involved in the development of the team.
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“He is part of the development because he is developing himself. He is a performance contributor on track and off the track, and as long as he plays this role we are on a good path.
“It’s true in every single team that you are always building a team around the driver. If you have a look over the last 20 years, or even more, all the successful stories in F1 took time, but it was always a team building up around a driver.
“It was true with Lewis [Hamilton] at Mercedes, it was true with Michael [Schumacher] at Ferrari, it was true with [Fernando] Alonso at Renault…
“It was true everywhere, and Red Bull, you can find tons of examples,” he concluded.
