During his first two years with F🐟errari, Leclerc was consistently out-pe🅷rforming the car in qualifying while dropping down on race day.

The Monegasque think he has made significant gains with his tyr🐭e preservation and race management but is still looking t♈o find a balance between qualifying and the race.

“Definitely th♏e race management in general,” Leclerc said ahead of this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. “Again, that's I think since early 2020 that I've started to say it's one of my weaknesses, especially after 2019 where I've had a lot of good qua💧lifyings but then in the race I was struggling a bit more.

“We were struggling a 🍸bit more as a team, but also as a driver I was struggling more than others so I put a lot of work into it in 2020, I got much better and I think in 2021 it's actually one of my strengths now.

“I feel good whenever we need to do some tyre management, I feel like I'm going a good job. But there is still a lot more to work on, maybe a balance from my qualifying to the race that I probably didn't find yet and sometimes I sacrificed a little bit more my qualifying to be better in the race as we've♒ seen a few times this season.

“But it's a balance that I'm working on to try and get the per♋fect balance in between quali and race.

Leclerc and teammate Carlos Sainz’s consistency this season has allowed Ferrari to pull a significant 39.5 point lead over McL𓄧arenꦑ in the race for third in the constructors’ championship.

Despite not taꦰking a win this season, Leclerc feels that it has been a “positive” campaign for the Scuderia.

“Not for the first part of the season,” Leclerc added. “I think in the second part𓄧 of the season, and🍃 especially since we brought the new upgrade with the new engine I think it's going in that direction and we definitely did a step up after that upgrade.

“I think it's been a clean season where we've managed to maximise the potential of our car. It's definitely still far 🍎from where we want to win, which is to fight for the wins, but it's been a positive season.

“If you look at last year it's been a good step in ಞthe right direction and hopefully we can d𒀰o another step in the right direction for next year.”