Charles Leclerc , Ferrari Formula 1 lead driver, advocated that 2020 was his “best season in Formula 1” despite noncompetitive car.
Ferrari had the worst season in last forty years. The team slipped to sixth position on constructors championship. Leclerc luckily managed to eight position with 98 points. While Sebastian Vettel was only able to finish on 13th position with 33 points.
Both drivers were struck with their Ferrari SF1000. The Monégasque fetched two podium positions, while German was only lucky once through-out the season. Ferrari could not a single victory this season.
Leclerc out performed his team mate last year, which resulted in his contract with Ferrari until 2024. But despite a slippage from fourth thought position this year, he is happy with his performance.
“I think there are two sides of the season for me,” Leclerc said.
“For myself, I think it’s my best season personally in Formula 1. I think what I’ve shown on track I’m very happy with my season.
“I’ve taken risks, that most of the time went positively, and made us gain a lot of points.
“On a few occasions it also didn’t happen the way I wanted and we’ve lost a few points.
“But I think, on the other hand, the season has been very positive for my own performance.
“So that I’m very happy [with], and now I’m looking forward to next year to see how much of a gain we will have.”
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Leclerc felt proud to be a part of the team because of their attitude towards adversity. He believes that the team and himself has learn a lot from the 2020 season.
“After Barcelona testing, I think we all knew that something was not quite right,” Leclerc added.
“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 improved 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 lot 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 sure that the step we will do will be in the right direction.”
