Leclerc eventually finished the race in seventh after he was delayed by a jack issue at a pit stop and received a five-second penalty for pitlane speeding, the latter costing him a place to George Russell after the flag.
The Monegasque was also heard during the race questioning the timing of a strategy call, but he downplayed the emotion that appeared to be attached to the message.
“The problem is that we have also lots of problems with the radio," he said. "And one out of four words is not understood by my engineer, because there's just problems with our radios in three, four races.
”So we need to fix that. And obviously my tone of voice is quite high because I need to make myself heard.
“But I just wanted to make sure that they didn't understand me wrong, and that I want you to go aggressive early, and not aggressive late. So it was just about clarifying because of our radio issues.”
He added: "It's difficult. Some races we didn't do exactly what I wanted to do, but today we did. And just the slow stop obviously put us quite a bit on the back foot.”
Leclerc admitted that it had been a “difficult” and “frustrating” afternoon at the Hungaroring as his run of disappointing races continued, but stressed “the result looks worse than what it actually is”.
"I mean, the pitstop was quite slow,” he said. “And we had a five-second penalty for speeding in the pit lane. So yeah, it's again a weekend that is difficult.
Source: Autosport