Charles Leclerc has labelled 2020 as his “best season in Formula 1” despite Ferrari’s struggles throཧughout the year.

In only his third year racing in F1, Leclerc comfortably got the better of Sebastian Vettel during their final season together as team💜mates at Ferrari and was often able to▨ get the most out of his underperforming machinery.

Ferrari plummeted to its worst result in the constructors’ championship since 1980 by finishing a l♈owly sixth, though Leclerc claimed two podiums and turned in a string of impressive qualifying displays throughout the year as he took eighth in the drivers’ standings.

Despit𝓰e the challenges, Lecജlerc considers 2020 to be his best season yet in terms of the level he has reached with his own performances.

"I think thꦦere are two sides of the season for me," Leclerc said.

"For myself, I think it's my best season personally in Formula 1. I th🧸ink what I've shown 🅷on track I'm very happy with my season.

"I've taken risks, that most of t🧜he time went positively, and made us gain a lot of points. On a few occasions it also didn't happen the way I w♚anted and we've lost a few points.

"But I think, on the other hand, the season has been very posᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚitive for my own performance.

"So that I'm very happy [with], ✨and now𒉰 I'm looking forward to next year to see how much of a gain we will have.”

Leclerc said he was imp🌞ressed by how Ferrari handled the difficult situation and was able to make improve♐ments towards the end of the season.

"After Barcelona tesඣting, I think we all knew that something was not quite right," the Monegas🐼que explained.

"I think during the season, even though it was very difficult to 🌱accept the situation after the first race, because the reality was obvious, we worked very hard, and we worked in a constructive way.

"And I think we improv🦋ed from that moment onwards. It was small steps, but as I said, small steps in the right direction and this is not always a given in Formula 1.

"Now, for the future, I think we've learned a lotꦜ from this season. And I think that we will only come back stronger. 💝I hope that we can show that on track next year.

"I don't know how much of the big step we will do next year, but I'm 𝔍sure that the step we will d🌸o will be in the right direction."