Mattia Binotto tends not to be associated with grand and public gestures of leadership in his role as Ferrari Formula 1 team principal.

Not for him the table-thumping mid-race tantrums of Toto Wolff, nor the mischief of professional wind-up merchant Christian Horner.

Instead, Binotto leads from the shadows and, still a humble engineer at heart, is the type who will gladly miss races later in the season in order to work on the following year’s car.

It was a little uncharacteristic, then, that when Charles Leclerc climbed out of his Ferrari at the end of Sunday’s British Grand Prix, Binotto was there to greet him in full view of the cameras.