Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto says Charles Leclerc will be free to fight Sebastian Vettel in races next year, despite confirming that the German will take precedence in the Scuderia's plans to topple Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton in the Formula 1 championships. Leclerc has graduated to Ferrari with a great swell of expectation behind him after an impressive rookie campaign with Sauber, which came on the back of title wins in consecutive years in GP3 and Formula 2. The 21-year-old from Monaco will become Ferrari's second youngest driver in history in Melbourne and recently stated he found it "logical" that Vettel would be put first in order to take on Hamilton. Put to Binotto...
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