Fred Vasseur, the latest unlikely candidate to be handed control of the asylum called Ferrari, insisted that he will not install Charles Leclerc as the team’s No 1 driver, but stated his belief that ‘everything is in place to win’. ‘The priority is to win for Ferrari,’ said Vasseur, 54. ‘There will be no No 1 and No 2, but if I need to take action at one stage of the season (to favour one driver over another) I will do it. Vasseur, Ferrari’s fifth team principal in a decade, declared: ‘I said we want to win and believe we can.

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