“We need to wait one second to judge Franco," he said. "We see this race – we need the full race. We did Monte Carlo, it was a very special race for everybody. We made a lot of mistakes in qualifying, and in Monte Carlo, qualifying well is the race. Especially this race. Monte Carlo, it was very boring and very annoying.

“This is the first real race for Franco. Races, I don’t know, honestly. I never tell [him] ‘five races, three races, four races, one race’. We’ll see. If Colapinto is performing he’s driving the car. If not, we’ll see.

“2025 is a year we need to prepare ourselves for 2026. So whatever experiment I need doing, we’re doing. I don’t know at this moment if Franco will stay for the season or not, but let’s see. It depends on the performance. We’re only looking at the performance – nothing else.”