Fred Vasseur insists on dealing with 2026 Formula 1 season race by race

Ferrari has been the only team to win races aside from Mercedes, with Lewis Hamilton winning the 2026 Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix before Leclerc took another win at Silverstone last Sunday, the team's 250th in the sport.

That win came as a surprise, as Ferrari's underpowered SF-26 was supposed to struggle around Silverstone, but Hamilton took Sprint pole and was on the Sprint podium and went on to share the podium with his teammate in the Grand Prix.

Ferrari have been steadily improving, throwing upgrades at their SF-26, and have become the closest team to Mercedes, who are taking a different and slower upgrade strategy for their dominant W17.

While Vasseur and Mercedes boss Toto Wolff have been in a war of words regarding comments the latter made about Ferrari's upgrade strategy, Ferrari, inevitably, are now tipped by many to challenge Mercedes for the Title, while Hamilton is third in the Drivers' Championship behind leader Kimi Antonelli and second-placed George Russell and still in contention.

After Leclerc's victory in Silverstone, and when asked about a potential Title battle between Ferrari and Mercedes, Vasseur said: "Championship fight is your words.

"After Barcelona I had the comment that Ferrari is back in the Championship. I said no. The week after, you told me that Ferrari is nowhere. ​I said no.

"I will have exactly the same approach with everybody at home, even if ​I won't be in the office tomorrow. To say: 'Guys, we did a good weekend. Now let's be focused ‌on ⁠Spa. It's not that we are champions. We are not nowhere. We are improving step by step, but it is like it is'," the Frenchman concluded. (Reporting by Agnes Carlier)