{"id":621731,"date":"2026-04-22T19:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621731\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:54:10","slug":"f1-star-charles-leclerc-reveals-his-pre-race-diet-and-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621731\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 star Charles Leclerc reveals his pre-race diet and preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Regardless of what Stephen A. Smith<\/a> thinks about whether or not racecar drivers are athletes<\/a>, they most certainly are. Now, one of the best on the planet, Ferrari F1 driver Charles Leclerc, has provided some insights into how he prepares for races.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old sat down with “The Do Show<\/a>” during the Chinese Grand Prix\u00a0<\/a>weekend earlier this season and got into his pre-race habits.<\/p>\n

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It turns out that there are three pretty simple things he does before hopping in a 200 mph F1 car and pulling the kind of G-forces that would make astronauts queasy.<\/p>\n

\"Charles <\/p>\n

Ferrari F1 driver Charles Leclerc revealed the three things he does before hopping in the car for a race. ((Photo by Jakub Porzycki\/NurPhoto))<\/p>\n

“Yes, I do, the jumping rope, the cold bath, and the diet<\/a>,” he said, per Yahoo Sports<\/a>. “I tend to (always eat) the same thing before getting into the car.”<\/p>\n

Now this is intriguing. I get sick if I eat the wrong thing before a leisurely 75 mph trip on the highway.<\/p>\n

So what the hell does one eat before a Formula 1<\/a> Grand Prix?!<\/p>\n

“Proteins, either white fish<\/a> or chicken, but in quite small quantities, and a little bit of carbohydrates, so probably rice is the easier one to digest before getting into a Formula 1 car,” Leclerc said. “These are the two things that I eat before getting into an F1 car.”<\/p>\n

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Alright, so one of the keys to being a Formula 1 driver is eating the same diet my dog gets after he pukes.<\/p>\n

But, hey, that’s what it takes to be among the best in the business<\/a>, which Leclerc is.<\/p>\n

\"Charles <\/p>\n

Ferrari has been the second-best team in F1 through three race weekends, with Charles Leclerc grabbing two Grand Prix podiums. ((Photo by Wan Mikhail Roslan\/NurPhoto))<\/p>\n

Formula 1 returns from an unexpected month-long hiatus after the postponement of races in Bahrain<\/a> and Saudi Arabia, with the Miami Grand Prix in early May.<\/p>\n

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Leclerc and his teammate Lewis Hamilton have what certainly appears to be the second-best car on the grid after three race weekends, behind only Mercedes.<\/p>\n

However, the FIA and Formula 1 are debuting some new regulation changes<\/a> following team feedback that are meant to improve the racing, qualifying, and driver safety.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regardless of what Stephen A. Smith thinks about whether or not racecar drivers are athletes, they most certainly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,930,576,580,577,231762,582,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-621731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-ferrari","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula-one","14":"tag-formula1","15":"tag-outkick-sports","16":"tag-racing","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}