Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has said that the American outfit have rejected Ferrari’s advances to bring either Antonio Giovinazzi or Charles Leclerc to the team for 2018.

Ferrari are eager for their young drivers to gain Formula 1 experience at one of their customer teams, but only Sauber is a viable destination for both as Haas opted to stay put with Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean.

“We work very closely with Ferrari together on things but they respect our decisions,” said Steiner to RACER.

“We are very open with them about what we are doing because that’s the only way the partnership works – there is no playing games.