Charles Leclerc states he has “always experienced a great relationship” with Frederic Vasseur, who has been tipped to choose in excess of as Ferrari workforce principal.

Vasseur has headed up Sauber’s System one workforce, presently branded as Alfa Romeo, considering that 2017. Leclerc drove for the workforce in his 1st year as a grand prix driver the next 12 months, in advance of shifting to Ferrari.

At the stop of previous thirty day period Ferrari declared Mattia Binotto experienced made a decision to move down as workforce principal. Questioned in today’s FIA Gala push convention no matter whether Vasseur would be very well suited to choose in excess of from him Leclerc reported: “Ferrari is a extremely diverse workforce to any other workforce. I can only remark on my working experience with Fred which certainly has been great.

“I’ve been operating with Fred currently from the junior classes exactly where he has considered in me and we have usually experienced a great romantic relationship. But aside from that, certainly this should not affect any of the other choices.

“He has usually been extremely easy, extremely trustworthy and this is some thing that I preferred from from Fred. No matter if it will be him or not, I really don’t know, and we’ll see ideally in the in the up coming couple months.”

Ferrari chairman John Elkann and CEO Benedetto Vigna will made a decision who to appoint as the new workforce principal. Leclerc did not categorical a perspective who they need to decide on. “Obviously it is also not my conclusion, John and Benedetto are heading to choose the conclusion,” he reported.

Ferrari declared Binotto’s resignation previous month“We are just striving to emphasis our career on the simulator with the workforce in get to have the finest racecar attainable for up coming 12 months.”

Leclerc reported he revered Binotto’s conclusion to go on immediately after 4 decades in demand of the workforce.

“Mattia termed me to announce that he will quit,” he reported. “I regard his conclusion and I can only thank him.

“Obviously he has considered in me ideal from the start out. He prolonged me with a extremely, extremely lengthy agreement. And in advance of currently being workforce principal, he was also within the scuderia for several, several decades and he has contributed to the good results that the workforce experienced in the in the previous decades.

“So I want him the finest and certainly now it is up to us to emphasis on the long term, attempt and choose the ideal decisions in get to be a little bit much more of a problem to Pink Bull up coming 12 months.”

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