Ferrari's only target is the title, says new boss Vasseur

Ferrari have everything they need to succeed and will be chasing the title this season with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz starting on equal terms, according to new team boss Fred Vasseur.

Vasseur, who joined from Swiss-based Alfa Romeo on Jan. 9 as Ferrari's fifth boss in less than a decade, told reporters via Zoom in his first media call since taking over that the target was obvious.

"I think when you are a top team, you can't have another target than the win," he said.

"You can't start the season (saying) 'OK I will be happy with P2.' It would be a lack of ambition and I think we have everything to do a good job and the target has to be to win for sure."

Ferrari, the sport's oldest and most successful team, have not won a championship since the constructors' crown in 2008. Their last drivers' title was won by now-retired Kimi Raikkonen in 2007.

They finished a distant second last season to Red Bull, despite starting out strongly with the quickest car, after strategy and driver errors as well as engine reliability problems.

Vasseur said strategy was not just about "the guy who is at the top of the iceberg" and the team was in process of reviewing everything and recognised improvement was necessary.

He said, however, it "would be arrogant" to shake up the technical organisation or try to change the culture after just two weeks in the job as replacement for departed Mattia Binotto.

"We have discussions to try to understand how we could improve the system, what could be the weakness of the system and to try to do a better job," he explained.

"But it's more continuous improvement than big steps or big changes that from my point of view wouldn't make sense.

"I trust the guys in place and will try to do the best for them also and