People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
ALAIN PROSTPeople don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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If I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
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The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair.
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When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that’s the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.
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People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that’s motor racing.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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I have had some problems because the French don’t like people to have success, they don’t like the number one.
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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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I think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.
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Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can’t see that from the outside.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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So I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.
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It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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