Charle🥀s Leclerc has exꦓpressed disappointment that Ferrari are lagging behind their rivals.

The famous Italian manufactur🍸er has slipped behind Red Bull, McLaren and Mer﷽cedes in the F1 pecking order at recent rounds.

Both Leclerc and teammate Carlos Sainz have won grands prix this season yet do not currently have the machinery to 💧keep pace with 🅘their rivals.

“For now, we are not 🦩yet where we want to be in terms of pe✱rformance, but we are working really hard,” Leclerc told .

“I am confiden꧙t that the future looks bright with the team and with the way we are work🐼ing.

“But for sure, with the situation we’re in at the✅ moment, I wiℱsh we had a winning car.”

Sainz won in Australia, backing up his win las𒅌t year in Singapore, to be the only driver to interrupt Red Bull’s race-winning domi𒆙nance.

Leclerc then emotionally - and finally - won 🅺his home race at the Monaco Grand Prix.

Yet at 🤡recent rounds, it has been McLaren and M🍒ercedes who have established themselves as Red Bull’s closest competition.

Oscar Piastri, Lando Norris, Lewis Hamilton and George Rus💯sell have all also won grands prix this ye🦂ar.

But Leclerc was prioritised above Sainz by ꧑Ferrari earlier this year, and tied down to a lucrative long-term contract. He will be joined by Hamilton in red next 𝔍year.

“My aim, together with Ferrari, 𓃲is to become a Formula 1 world champion and that’s it,” he said.

“I only want it with Ferrari – so, for noౠw, I’m only focused on that.ꦑ”

Leclerc♑ admitted: “I never expected to be where I am today.

“My father always reminded me of how difficult it will be💞 and how unlikely it will be as well. E♎ven if you are talented, you don’t only require talent to get to Formula 1.

“There are lots of kids that are talented around the world, but you need a liꦛttle bit of luck to find yourself in the right place at the right time and then have the people supporti🥃ng you along the way.

“I had that luck of having Ferrari supporting me since very early on, 🧸and to have my manager also supporting me to get to wher🐲e I am today.”