Quotes from Charles Leclerc

Yes, there will be situations when you may need to be a little selfish, but it is better to find the right balance.

In the car it is really good to have a killer instinct where you need to be aggressive.

Certainly driving a Ferrari is, at the same time, a dream come true, a huge responsibility and a great honor.

I analyse everything I do and when I see something I don't like I try to find the solution and that's why I'm so hard on myself.

I have a mentality that is really taking off all the pressure.

As team-mates, it is difficult to act as a mentor.

You cannot deliver to your maximum if you're thinking 'if I do an error, it might close a door to somewhere' or whatever.

I don't like to hide the errors I make. Any time I'm doing a mistake, I'm just saying it.

Twitch is something I never thought I'd enjoy and I never saw myself doing. But actually I really enjoyed it. For the people that follow me, I think it's the closest you can get to the real me.

The Spa-Francorchamps circuit has a special place in my heart.

The Sochi circuit can be challenging, featuring a combination of high speed straights and lots of corners, especially in the last sector.

Jules Bianchi was my racing godfather, and he spoke a lot to Ferrari about me.

I know it is a dangerous sport but this is something I like.

To grow you must understand and admit your mistakes, it is an approach that works for me, it is not necessarily the same for everyone.

Formula 1 is such a big jump from Formula 2, and there are so many new things that you need to learn.

I haven't got any friends on the track when I have my helmet on but whenever I take it off, I am a normal person at the end.

F1 always feels unreal until you arrive and get your first seat.

The atmosphere in Sochi is unusual, in that we are surrounded by the Olympic complex. It is special to compete at a location that has played such a big part in international sporting history, which gives this place a unique feeling.

It's very important for me to focus on myself, on the job I have to do on and off the track with the engineers without really thinking about what people expect of me off the track.

I am not vegan, but I am obviously looking into all of these things.

I analyse everything I do to see if I can do better, that's how I grew over the years.

That first victory, before you get to it, it always seems so far ahead. You're not sure whether you can make it or not. Once you do, obviously it's a relief, but it also helps you to then deal better once you are in the lead of a race.