Fred Vasseur expected a tough Canadian Grand Prix as Ferrari had no upgrades while rivals did

Mercedes' updated W17 was fast out of the box, as it seemed the teams nailed the new parts, while McLaren were apparently the second-best Formula 1 team in Montreal.

Ferrari trailed them, and while Lewis Hamilton showed strong form throughout the weekend, he couldn't translate that to results in any qualifying or the Sprint Race but managed to bag second place in the Grand Prix on Sunday, basically capitalizing on McLaren dropping the ball with their starting tyre compound—the Intermediate.

But Vasseur was satisfied with Ferrari's Canadian Grand Prix weekend; he said: “Overall, it's a strong weekend with a strong performance from the team.

"Lewis was on the positive side all over the weekend, from Lap 1 in FP1 to the last lap of the race. The confidence was there, and in these conditions, very cold conditions, poor grip, you need to have the confidence to build up the energy into the tyres, and it went very well.

“It was a bit more difficult for the opposite reasons with Charles [Leclerc],” the Frenchman added of his second driver who was miserable in the SF-26 cockpit in Montreal.

He explained: “He was not very confident from the beginning, but overall it's a good result from him to bring the car back to P4 and score good points."

Vasseur admitted not having an upgrade like Ferrari's rivals was a concern but is happy his team managed to limit the damage.

He said: "We were expecting a tough weekend in Montreal because the competitors brought upgrades and we didn't.

“It's probably positive for us. Now we have to be focused on the next one, but Monaco is a completely different story with different conditions, and we have to perform next weekend also," the Ferrari Team Principal concluded. (Reporting by Agnes Carlier)