00:00Hello everyone, I am Charles Leclerc and these are 10 things I can't live without. Let's go.
00:10My sunglasses, here they are, but I never wear them during interviews. Don't feel it's very
00:24polite to do so. They are cool, they are beautiful, they protect me from the sun. They are not the
00:30meta ones, I do have the meta ones and I actually wear them in some occasions. It's very cool like
00:35when I'm driving, karting, sometimes I wear them and you can shoot at the same time. But for the
00:39everyday use, I go for those ones. I actually should wear prescription glasses, but I don't.
00:45I've got like a perfect view, I just struggle a bit more to see perfectly, so I might have like
00:51headaches at the end of the day. My watch and my jewels. This bracelet is the date of my Monaco
00:59win last year. Very special one. A race that I've always dreamed of winning one day. And along some
01:04other bracelets, sometimes it can be fan bracelet. This one is actually my girlfriend that gifted me
01:10this one. And my watch, for the time. But I actually, I use it more for the style than for the time,
01:16because I always forget to put it at the right hour. I'm always traveling too much. It is a model
01:22that we've actually just released with Richard Mio, which is the Charles Leclerc model. So he's the first
01:28model that has been done for myself. Richard has actually been the very first person that believed
01:33in me and financed my career and helped me to get to where I am today. They are making 150. I do think
01:39they are sold out, yes. That's exactly what Leo does. He's my dog. It's a mini Dachshund long hair,
01:51blonde, beautiful, perfect personality. He's my best friend. I bring him in most of the races,
01:57and that's his toy. He loves it. This noise is his favorite noise in the world. He gets very excited.
02:04Last year he did get a paddock pass, but he doesn't need it anymore. People know him
02:08actually more than me. So he's fine without pass. He can still get into the paddock at every races
02:14he comes to. He's the best. My next essential is my paddle racket. I'm a very, very competitive
02:21person. So whenever I'm not on track, I need to find some kind of competitiveness. Paddle is
02:26probably one of the few sports I'm good at. I'm not very good apart from actually racing cars,
02:31but paddle I'm acceptable. So I always bring my racket around to play around the world. Whenever we are on
02:37races, outside the car, you cannot do high intensity trainings. And paddle is actually a really good
02:44sport because it's not so intense. And also for coordination, reflexes, I wouldn't say I play paddle
02:50for those things. I play paddle mostly because it's fun and because I enjoy it. Best paddle player on the
02:55grid? I rate myself amongst the best. I do believe that Carlos Sainz is probably the best, me second best,
03:05and the rest behind. Checo wouldn't beat me. But I like confidence and I like competition. So
03:12Checo, if you see that, we can play whenever you want. My ice cream. I love ice cream. I've always
03:18loved ice cream. Being an athlete and weight is important in a racing car. You've got to be as light
03:24as possible. And for that, obviously lots of sport, but not only the diet is an important part of it. So
03:30I decided to create my own brand of ice cream called LEC, now available in France, Italy and UK,
03:38with reduced calories, which was very important for me, but still tasting exactly like I wanted.
03:43When you think about ice cream, and I've always loved ice cream, that always came with that feeling
03:49guilty because you don't actually want to eat that ice cream if you're on a diet. And I didn't like that
03:55particular filling. And so I was like, okay, I need to try and do a product where I don't have this kind
04:00of filling whenever I eat it. Now I can eat ice cream a lot more often.
04:08My next essential is a keyboard. To be completely honest, this is not the exact piano I'm bringing
04:14around because this has actually very small keys. So it's a bit more difficult to play.
04:20Anyway, I'm not going to do a concert right now. My life is about speed, obviously most of the time,
04:31and music is a way for me to just disconnect from that, slow down, focus on one thing only,
04:36which is the music. I started to play piano during COVID. I started to put stories on Instagram of
04:43musics I will come up with. People liked it. And then I thought it would be cool to post it,
04:48to put them on Spotify. It had some good success. The tricky thing with music is that obviously
04:53there's the technical aspect also attached to it. On the technical side, I've got quite a bit of
05:00limits. So most of the time I'm very, very creative, but then I cannot actually reproduce exactly what
05:05I have in mind just because I'm not as good as I would want to on the piano. But it's a process that
05:11I really, really enjoy, which is the most important thing to me.
05:19My next essential is this beauty. I'm a big, big sleeper. I think I broke my record two weeks ago.
05:27I was in Japan and I slept for 12 hours and 15 minutes straight in one night, probably too much,
05:35but most of the time eight, nine hours, which is quite a lot. This is a sleep. This is something
05:43that I bring everywhere as a Formula One driver. Races are tiring. Recovery is basically everything.
05:49And sleep is obviously the base of recovery. It's basically a sheet that you put on the bed that
05:55gives you all the data while you are sleeping without wearing anything. And second, it cools the bed down.
06:03I think probably the thing that is most useful for me, my girlfriend always wants to be as warm as
06:09possible in the bed. I always want to be as cold as possible in the bed and you can split both sides.
06:15And this is the game changer. Before, I remember I used to always try and find for the fresh side of bed.
06:23So I was moving all the time before falling asleep. Now that's not anymore the case. I can just sleep,
06:28stay in the same position, fresh, all night, beautiful.
06:32Headphones. Music is a very important part of my life. So are my headphones. To have this
06:39noise-canceling headphones, the music is something that I really enjoy. It just helps me to disconnect
06:45a little bit with the outside world and just think. That's probably the best thing I like to do on a plane.
06:50Just think about either the last race, the next race, the different projects that I have in mind.
06:56Where is the love from the Black Eyed Peas is probably the song I listen most to,
07:03or the song I have listened most to in my whole life. It's linked to particular moments of my childhood,
07:09which always remind me of those kind of moments. And I really enjoy this song.
07:13I absolutely love the songs that I've done with Sofiane Pomart, who is a good friend of mine and an
07:18incredible pianist. And that was probably one of the only times where my creativity had no limits,
07:23because Sofiane was here to actually help me technically play the song himself, what I had in
07:28mind. I'm very curious in everything I do, but in music as well. And also, even when I don't
07:34actually enjoy a song, I like to try and push through it and understand it. At one point, I like it.
07:41Sometimes I was surprised. My phone. My dog is my background. He's so beautiful. I love what I do,
07:52and I'm so lucky to be doing what I've always dreamed of doing, which is to be a Formula 1 driver,
07:56and especially with Ferrari. However, obviously my family, my girlfriend, my friends are most of the
08:02time at home when they cannot come on a race. So obviously the phone is the only way to contact them.
08:10I do have my own social media. I try to limit the time I spend on it. So I've got like the limit per
08:16day, which I think is set on 20 minutes, 25 minutes per day. But I do manage them myself,
08:23with the team around me. Actually Antoine is just there taking all the content that you see.
08:29Books. This one is the one I'm reading at the moment. I haven't done Harvard Business School,
08:34but I'm still reading that anyway. I love reading books in general, instead of spending a lot of
08:41time on my phone. I just prefer to learn new things and read as much as I can.
08:46Thanks for watching. These were my essentials and I hope to see you very soon. Ciao!
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