Fred Vasseur, Ferrari team principal, refused to inflate his team's chances in the Formula One World Championship, even as the team celebrates its second win in three weeks, insisting that Mercedes still holds a slight advantage. The Italian team has not won a title since 2008, but now trails Mercedes by 78 points in the constructors' standings. Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton is third in the drivers' standings, 32 points behind leader Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes. Charles Leclerc, who won the British Grand Prix on Sunday a month after teammate Hamilton's victory in Spain, is fourth, 39 points behind his teammate. When asked about the fight that appears to be narrowing between Mercedes and Ferrari at the front, despite Ferrari's duo missing the podium in Austria between the two wins, Vasseur said: 'The championship fight is your description.' He added: 'After Barcelona, I received a comment saying Ferrari is back in the championship fight, and I said no. And the following week you told me Ferrari is completely out of contention, and I said no as well.' He continued: 'I will follow the same approach with everyone at the factory, even if I'm not in the office tomorrow, to tell them "Guys, we had a good weekend. Now let's focus on Spa. This doesn't mean we are champions, and we are not out of the picture. We are improving step by step, but that's the reality."' The next race is the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps, where Leclerc won in 2019 – in a different era before the current engines – and Hamilton has tasted victory on previous visits with Mercedes and McLaren. Vasseur believes that Mercedes, winners of seven out of nine races and starting from pole in all of them, still holds a slight performance advantage, even though Ferrari appears strong in qualifying and race pace.