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

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

Leclerc enjoyed a stellar fi🎃rst campaign at Maranello💯, racking up two victories and seven pole positions across the 2019 season as he outperformed four-time world champion 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 patience. Patience is something which is very important and𓆉 something which I struggled to have in the pa💖st.

“But I learnt with Ferrari you n﷽eed 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 sometimes. I was a bit too impatient beforജe.”

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 d🐻river.

“It feels good, it feels rea♉lly 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 beﷺlieve that I am here. It is an honour and I can’t wait to get back on track.”

And the 22-year-old Monegasque insisted he would not change anything from the past as he feels his previous mistakes have helped shaped him into the dri൲ver 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 𓂃learned from those errors,” Leclerc explained.

“So, no, I would not change anything just because it has sh✅aped me into the person I am now.”