Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charওles Leclerc has branded his Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying crash as “completely unnecessary” and says he needs to work on his reꦬcent mistakes.

Leclerc lost control of his Ferrari coming out of the final corn🏅er in Q1 and spun rearwards into the barriers, causing damage to the rear wing and diffuser on his SF90.

The Monegasque had already set a lap time good enough to see him progress into the second part of qualifying and some quick ꦿwork from his Ferrari mechanics enabled him to take part in Q2.

His incident followed crashing out of last weekend’s German Grand Prix while iꦉn a strong second place.

“I’ve been very lucky to g🎃o again,” Leclerc admitted.

“I have to thank the team very much for what they’v𒉰e done but it was a completely unnecessary mistake at that point in qu🌺ali.

“That’s two mistakes in two grands ꦬprix. The first one wasn’t acceptable but this one is definitely not acceptable, and if I had stayed in the wall it would have been a lot worse.

“I need to learn from these mistakes. This is the second ♐one in quali at an unnecessary time so I need to understand and work on that.

“On the other hand, it was very positive in Q3 on my side. Of course, we are half𝐆 a second down, that’s not where we want to be but I’m very happy with my lap overall.”

Leclerc was also made to rue a notable error during qualifying at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, when a ꦚcrash in Q2 cost him a shot of a possible pole position in Baku.

Asked if his mistakes are th🔯e result of trying to hard, Leclerc replied: “It’s a little bit different now. Obvi🐼ously Baku was trying too hard.

“But this one I had Sebastian starting the lap in front, I knew I would lose a little bit of downforce but I have just been surprised by this and it’s completely my fault. I w🍸ill work on it.”

Despite the error, Lecle𝔍rc recovered to outpace teammate Sebastian Vettel by less than a tenth as he grabbed fourth spot on the grid.

Vettel was left frustrated as Ferrari ended up half a second adrift of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, and the German is a♌nticipating a tough ꧋race on Sunday.

Asked what he felt had been key to Verstappen’s qua๊lifying performance, Vettel said: “Downforce. I don’t think they’ve found something, 🗹they were quick already the weeks before coming here.

“Obviously they do have a disadvantage on the engine side but here th✱e engine is not as imp💮ortant.

“We knew they would be strong, we knew Mercedes would be strong because they have the best package but obviously we can’t be happy sitting furth༒er back and not being able to intervene in that fight.

“Hopefully the tyres will al♔l melt and we end up with more stops than one,💎 otherwise it will be difficult.”