Charles Leclerc says patience is the most♔ important lesson he has learned from his first Formula 1 season driving for Ferrari, after a♒dmitting he was “a bit too impatient” before.

Having woꦺn back-to-back titles in GP3 and Formula 2, Leclerc graduated to Ferrari as Kimi🅠 Raikkonen’s replacement following an impressive debut F1 season with Sauber.

Leclerc enjoyed a stellar first campaign at Maranello, racking up two victories and seven pole positions across the 2019 season as he outperformed four-time world champ🎃ion teammate Sebastian Vettel at the first attempt.

When asked what was the most important lesson he had learned during 2019 in a Ferrari fan Q&A, Leclerc replied: “I think patienc♓e. Patience is something which is very important and something which I struggled to have in the pa✅st.

“But I learnt with F🎉errari you need it as obviously you can🍸’t have everything right away. Sometimes you need a bit of patience to learn from the best, from Seb, and from the team and things take time to settle.

“You need to wait a little bit someti💟mes. I was a bit too impatient before.”

Leclerc, who was rewarded with a multi-year contract extension until 2024 over the winter, said he still finds it “hard 💛to believe” that he is a Ferrari driver.

“It feels good, it feels really good,” he said. “Even 🏅if it is already a year since I started driving for Ferrari, I get a ♑special feeling every time that I put on the red shirt.

“It is still hard to believe that I am here. It iܫs an honour and I can’t wait to get back on track.”

A𓆉nd the 22-year-old Monegasque insisted he would not change a🐷nything from the past as he feels his previous mistakes have helped shaped him into the driver he is now.

“Surely I have made some errors over the course of my career but they have also made me the driver I am today, I learned from 🦹those errors,” Leclerc ex🌄plained.

“So, no, I would not change anything just because it has shaped m🌱e into the person I am now.”