Charles Leclerc Quotes

I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew going around the track the fender was on the tire hard.

Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing.

I have to accept risk as a racing driver.

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.

In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.

In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about three or four years old, I said I wanted to race, but I was too young; then, when I reached the age of seven, my father gave me a kart and we started from there.

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.

I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.

I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.

I was extremely underprepared for F1. So compared with that, I feel fine with IndyCar, quite honestly.

When I got to Ferrari I learnt to be less aggressive, and how to set up the car for my driving style.

It's no secret that I live in Woking and I go to the MTC every day. So I've spent every available day working - either with my engineers, with the team management, or with the trainers at MTC; building those relationships, getting to grips with the car, the style of driving, the cockpit and control systems, and improving my fitness.

I left for Chelsea to learn new things, at a new club with new players.

I have had this opportunity to go on a journey and experience the ride of racing cars, of different championships around the world, go-karts, F3, F4, and now F1. It's been so amazing to be able to experience that. There have been bad days, good days, and it's been a great ride.

I am happy that I will be able to drive again and I will also see Eddie Jordan again, as it's been some time since I had direct contact with him. I am really curious to see what it's like with the Jordan team and how they will react to me, what they want to tell me.

Formula 1 need to have a good look at itself. As a show, I think we need to put on a better show for the fans.

It's true that driving an F1 car in testing is helpful, it's not that you learn everything.

I know the Paul Ricard track from when I drove in Formula 3.

It's an amazing experience for me, coming from the F1 environment and to see a race like Le Mans.

There's obviously a lot of drivers that are in F1 because they're one of the best drivers out there, so I can learn from everyone.

Every lap I'm learning more about an IndyCar, because it's not an easy car to learn. It's tough to get your head around it and know how to use it in the best possible way.

I didn't really ever race for points growing up, and so I had to learn that.

The ovals have been the big learning curve. You have to build up to it in a different way.

I was carrying Jackie Stewart's bag! Formula One was pretty much the same back then.