Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto believes Charles Leclerc’s dis🐈appointment at not winning the Austrian Grand Prix will only spur him on more to claim his first Formula 1 victory.

Leclerc took his second pole position of the season in Austria and looked on course to finally land his firs♐t grand prix victory having led the majority of last weekend’s race, only to be denied by a late charge from Max Verstappen.

The Red Bull driver controversially passed Leclerc with three laps to go b▨ut escaped punishment, a decision which irked both Ferrari and the Mone൩gasque.

“I think there is no difficulty to encourage him,” Binotto said followi🎶ng the race.

“I think he’s already prepared for the next one, it gives him even mor𓆉e of a boost to somehow get his first victory ಌin F1.

“Certainly he’s sorry for the output, I think after the qualifying it was somehow very optimistic and after the first laps of the race he was controllin🐼g the race and saw himself in a good position.

“But that’s what’s ♚good in the sport, the chequered flag is only at the end of the race, and everything may happe🦹n.

“So I think he’s simply looking ahead at the next races as a new challenge and he’s very hungry, so I’m pretty sure sooner or later it will be his t🌱ime.”

Despite Ferrari’s encouraging performance in Austria, Bi💞notto doubts the team will b🐻e able to translate its Spielberg form to all circuits.

“I think certainly the track characteristic is the main factor,” he explained. “As I think we simply foreseen before, to come to Paul Ricard it would🏅 be a difficult weekend, we knew coming here🐲 that we may have a better chance.

“But we are aware as well we are improving our car so I think it’s a combination of two factors. After Paul Ricard we said the car ꧃ahs improved compared to Barcelona.

“Here we had new upgrades on the c🔴ar that all went in the right direction, the driver confidence, ther🌺e are a few things. Will we be able to fight and battle on all the tracks? I don’t think yet.

“There will be tracks where there are more diffic🔴ult for us. But again, from now until then, we may bring some more development and I think we can only see race by race.”