Fred Vasseur has told his feuding drivers there will be “no problem” despite the anger of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz after the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

Sainz and Leclerc finished third and fourth behind Mercedes teammates at Sin City on Saturday night, with the Spaniard beating Leclerc to the final podium by 2.3 seconds.

Fred Vasseur foresees no problems after Ferrari tensions in Las Vegas

Leclerc was furious as he felt that while he had been “respectful” and “kind” to Sainz, the Spaniard had ignored team orders by overtaking him as he left the pits on lap 31.

Leclerc was informed by his race engineer Bryan Bozzi that Sainz had “been instructed not to overtake but it’s very close, you could be right in front.” We told him not to put pressure on you.”

The Monegasque driver only took the lead when Sainz got around him at Turn 4 and took fourth place, which became third when his teammates overtook Max Verstappen.

Leclerc launched into an X-rated tirade during the cooldown rounddropping no less than six F-bombs before realizing the radio was on and apologizing.

He has since said he would “only think about myself” during the final two races with Sainz as his teammate.

Vasseur put an end to that, saying they would discuss what happened and after that he doesn’t expect any problems.

“I’m not worried at all,” Ferrari team principal told media including PlanèteF1.com. “I think it’s always the same story: They have to comment or they don’t have to comment.

“They make comments on the (recovery) lap and they don’t always see the whole picture. We will discuss it and it will not be a problem.

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The team boss shed light on the antics that led Sainz to overtake Leclerc, calling the preparation for this situation “really difficult”.

Sainz was asked before his second pit stop to let Leclerc pass him because the latter had a better pace, while at the same time Sainz was arguing with Ferrari because he wanted to stop for fresh tires.

He started to pull into the pits, but Ferrari wasn’t ready for him and he completed another lap before stopping on lap 28. Leclerc stopped three laps later and Sainz quickly overtook him.

“We wanted to avoid fighting,” Vasseur explained. “But at this stage you have to be on the (tire) management side, and Carlos was already on the third or fourth lap of the relay.

“I think it was more the fact that the situation was really difficult for everyone.

“We’ll have to discuss it, but at this stage of the race we were discussing with Carlos about the pit stop, I was explaining that he was perhaps in Tsunoda’s shadow, and he wanted to come into the pits, we wanted to keep it.

“We were discussing it and on top of that we had to exchange and it was a bit chaotic, but when they are in the car they have their own vision of the race.”

When asked if it was possible to achieve a better result, he replied: “I don’t think so. Overall I think Mercedes was the fastest. Maybe, with a different approach to the weekend… But today, with the positions we had on the grid, I don’t think we could have done more.

With 27 points against 15 for McLaren, Ferrari closed the gap in the fight for the title. Manufacturers title at 24 points with two races remaining.

“I prefer to be 24 points behind rather than 200. The championship is still open and anything can happen,” said the Frenchman. “On paper, Qatar is not the best track for us, but we had some difficult weekends where we still managed to do well.

“We will do our best to put pressure on McLaren for the final race. This is very important because anything can happen during the last Grand Prix. We will attack until the last corner of the last lap of the last race.

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