Leclerc keen to "follow advice of others"

Sauber driver Charles Leclerc thinks that having a humble attitude and learning from other professionals have been key to him impressing in the first season of his career in F1.

Leclerc's impressive maiden season in the sport has been rewarded with a Ferrari call-up for the 2019 season.

He's at Sauber until the rest of this season, though, and has insisted that it is not just self-confidence that is required to succeed in Formula One.

"Obviously you need to be confident that you can do it," Leclerc said about his ambitions in the sport. "But you also need to be very humble and accept that sometimes you need to change the things and listen to the people (who have been) in the sport for a long time for you to change that type of things.

"I'm always very open-minded in any kind of tips or things that I need to change on track or where can I get better. I think this helps a lot. Probably the biggest thing is to listen to people.

"I've had it (advice) from different people telling me to keep the feet on the ground and always work. That's something extremely important. There's a lot of attention compared to Formula two, and to think straight away 'Okay, I've done it', which is not the right mentality, so this is probably one of the (biggest) advice that helped me."