“A Moment I Will Never Forget” | Emotional Charles Leclerc On His Home Win | 2024 Monaco Grand Prix

Hear from Charles Leclerc as he reflects on his victory at the 70th Monaco Grand Prix and just how much winning in his home country means to him.

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Char congratulations it’s the race you’ve always wanted to win you’ve done it for yourself you’ve done it for your dad you’ve done it for Geor just tell me how you feel right now uh I feel extremely good um yeah it’s uh I think there’s a lot of things adding to uh to this weekend first of all it’s my home Grand Prix second I’ve had two opportunities in the past that I’ve lost which things that weren’t really in my control and uh that was extremely difficult to manage those very difficult moments and also you you you don’t really know whether you are going to get another opportunity to to win this race and it’s such a difficult race to win that uh you don’t know and uh I knew there was an opportunity opportunity this weekend and then last it’s my home race is the race that made me dream of becoming a Formula One driver one day it’s the race that I used to watch with my dad that has done absolutely everything for me to get to where I am today uh dream was to um raise ha in Monaco in in Formula 1 I wouldn’t have imagined when I was younger that I will race with Ferrari one day in Monaco and win this race and uh that was obviously the Ultimate Dream right before being world champion of course but the ultimate dream and uh the fact that I managed to do that I felt like I did not only accomplished my own dream but also the one of of my father the one of my mother as well that has sustain me in everything I have done since then and that has been an incredibly strong woman when when she uh when we all lost my my dad um my brothers uh that has that have always been so supportive with me my girlfriend all my family all my friends and the special thing about this race is that it’s such a small country that I’ve got everybody here uh and everybody was around the TRU and exit of turn one I had my best friends uh in the pits I had my family um and everywhere on the track I had friends uh and that makes it so incredibly special so it’s a very very special moment I did not expect the race to be so difficult to manage emotionally and uh and mentally wise I had so many thoughts uh of the people I have mentioned already in the last 10 laps that was very difficult to uh man because even though I knew the place was extremely good you have to stay on it on a track like this and uh it was very very difficult so was it just a bit of a release then in that moment when you cross the line then you embrace your mechanics and you still on the podium that you’d always wanted to stand on yes for sure uh yeah yeah it was uh definitely a very very special moment a moment I will never forget I will keep uh yeah inside me forever