During this week-end Lekler Sharl becomes the first Monegasque who Gran Pri Monaco since Olvye Beretta in the 1994th comes for start. He admitted interview that it is unusual to pass on acquaintances since the childhood to streets at a wheel of the car of the Formula 1.
Question: What the route to Monaco means to you? You managed to imagine these streets as the route?
Lekler Sharl : Now – yes, it is the real route. But I really regularly pass on these streets by car and in the bus. But at a wheel of the racing car all it seems absolutely to another.
here in the Formula 2 and I remember that was shocked. At great speed I did not learn streets on which walked in the childhood. It is necessary to get used to it. But I very much like this route. I very much waited for it. I did not pass Monaco. It is difficult to believe that now I participate in it.
Question: Whether it is difficult to consider this route separately what surrounds it? You in the city!
Lekler Sharl: Is not present, it turns out by itself. The most difficult – to be adjusted on race where always lived. To tell myself that now it is a racing week-end though around I see everything nearly an every day. But last year I perfectly consulted.
Question: What exactly helps you to adapt?
Lekler Sharl : I try to treat this week-end the same as to any other. This is the same Gran Pri, as well as all the others. Yes, it special, but it should not affect my spirit.
Question: Here a lot of attention is riveted on you … by
Lekler Sharl: To Australia I too was the focus of attention … It was my debut Gran Pri. I know that it will not be compared about Monaco, where I local. As Vasser Frederick spoke, it is important to observe concentration, attentively to analyze telemetry, to have a rest and so on. I cannot be sprayed.
Question: This Gran Pri from the very beginning left a trace in your heart?
Lekler Sharl : I in the head still have picture since I was absolutely small … I do not know why to me this race, but all so was remembered. I was four or five years old, and I was on a visit at one of my best friends and sat on a terrace which contacted Quater of Sainte-Dévote … I played machines, looked how cars of the Formula 1 passed by, and hoped once to take the wheel of one of them.
Question: Where you now live?
Lekler Sharl : Houses. My apartment comes for start home straight … I have regularly dinner in port. I often swam in the pool … All these places are perfectly familiar to me.
Question: And here you started playing a casino?
Lekler Sharl (laughs): No, I as at the Monegasque have no such right.
Question: Than you are fond besides the Formula 1?
Lekler Sharl : It is a little golf, tennis. I like to play soccer. But most of all I love motor racing.
Question: You love golf?
Lekler Sharl : Yes, it very much is pleasant to me, but I not really well play. One or few times in a year I go to play.
Question: What Gran Pri Monaco became the last as the viewer?
Lekler Sharl : It was in the 2016th when I acted in GP3.
Question: The other day you met the prince Alber Alexander Louie Pierre Grimaldi. He gave to you advice?
Lekler Sharl (laughs): No, he did not give to me advice. But we are familiar for a long time. I met it 12 years ago in the palace. He watched my career and told me that is very happy with my achievements. He is very glad that in the Formula 1, at last, there was a Monegasque racer. I presented to it the helmet.
Question: For five Gran Pri you scored 9 points is an excellent debut!
Lekler Sharl: Two previous races turned out very successful. It is necessary to continue work. I knew that in a debut season it is necessary hardly but very few people expected that to Baku I finish the sixth, and in Barcelona – the tenth. Ispanskaya Route did not suit our car. I hope, the result of race to Monaco too will surprise me as occurred in Barcelona. But I never doubted myself.
Question: What is in this route?
Lekler Sharl : Two "eski" about the pool. It is the fastest part of the route. There we will have a little more problems because the car does not have enough clamping force. It is necessary to concentrate on the last sector not to waste a lot of time.