Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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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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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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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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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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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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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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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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 I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
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Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
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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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I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success.
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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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