Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc was left disappointed to only qualify fourth for the Chinese Grand Prix after making a mistake on his꧅ final run in Q3.

Leclerc ended up just 0.017s shy of teammate Sebastian Vettel as Ferrari had to settle with the second row of the grid in Shanghai, with the Mercedes duo of Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton proving untouchable as they 𓃲finished nearly three-tenths up the road.

The 21-year-old rued a mistake on his final flying effort in the last segment of qualify⛄ing and felt he coܫuld have outqualified his four-time world champion teammate without it.

“I’m not 🔯happy with myself,” Leclerc admitted. “I did🎃 a mistake in the last lap and I shouldn’t have done that.

“Overall, I think there are posit🌸ives, also on my side, because FP1, FP2, FP3 I was quite🦹 lost, struggling a little bit, actually quite a lot.

“Our chance for qualifying w🥀as better, I drove better and the lap time came. It’s good but it’s also disappointing because I think I had the potential to do more today.”

Leclerc missed a large chunk of track time in both FP2 and FP3 as Ferrari carried out checks on his SF90. As a result, he was unable to complete any l꧑ong runs and has been left in the dark about hi🅺s chances heading into Sunday’s race.

“We’ll see tomorrow,” he added when asked about𓂃 Ferr🌼ari’s race-day prospects.

“I didn’t have the race runs obviously so it’s going to be tricky on my side but I’ll pu♑sh to get the best result tomorrow.”