Sebastian Vettel insists Ferrari has not forgotten how to win despite going seven races this year without tasting victory.
Vettel jumped both Mercedes drivers off the line in Montreal but Ferrari handed track position back to Lewis Hamilton by putting the German on to a two-stop strategy, which ultimately meant he finished second behind the world champion. It was another example of a win getting away from Ferrari due to a questionable strategy call, something which happened in Australia and Spain.
When asked if Ferrari has forgotten how to win in the years since its last world championship, Vettel replied: "I don't know about other teams but I disagree when it comes to us. I joined the team last year and I think it's a very strong team and I think in the end the mentality is responsible for whether you win or not.
"Ultimately on every day you can choose 100 different reasons [if you don't win], first of all if you are competitive enough is one of the main reasons. But in terms of mentality I see a team full of winning people, I think there's definitely the desire to win from everyone involved. This is also one of the things that makes me very confident that we will start winning sooner or later. The ambition for anyone involved is always to win, some achieve it and some don't' -- as I said, if you look at car performance etc which will help you or not.
"But what makes you a winner is not just if you have a car which is quick enough; it's the people that operate the car. In this regard I think we're a very, very strong team. We can be stronger, so there's stuff that we can learn and will always have to learn, but I haven't seen a winning team or winning person that has learnt all the lessons there are to learn in life.
"In this regard, if you look at our sport and the way it's changing, evolving, there's definitely things you can learn as a team, there's definitely things you can learn as a driver in terms of how to drive the car. So it never stops, but I think it's the mentality that is mostly responsible for whether you are successful or not."
Vettel ran Hamilton and Mercedes close in Canada and he puts that down to Ferrari having a clean weekend from the start of practice, something he feels will be key to maintaining the pressure on the front.
"For sure upgrades help. I think everything we brought to Canada, there was a lot of talk about the turbo update, did make a difference, so that was good. But I think it was just a clean weekend in particular because the weekends before were a bit messy, in particular in qualifying we weren't able to show the pace or release the pace of the car.
"In this regard Saturday was strong, I think we qualified where the car belongs and on Sunday we had a trouble-free race. We were able to put Lewis under pressure because simply the speed was there. You seem to have an easier Sunday where you can do your thing if Saturday goes well, and this has to be the target."