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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.

Alain Prost

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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Career Fact Judge Long Race Season Sport Term Thing
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.
ALAIN PROST

Absolute All Below Day Go Limit never Right Same Speed Test
I think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
ALAIN PROST

Bit English Maybe Reserve Something Stupid Think
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.
ALAIN PROST

Analyse Begin During Know Practice Race Win
Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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Better Mentality Result Some Sometimes Think
I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
ALAIN PROST

Always Anything Break Car Mentality
I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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Brave Risk Say Sort Take
I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
ALAIN PROST

Appreciate Hard Work
In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
ALAIN PROST

Finish Four Place Seventh Three Time
It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
ALAIN PROST

Attitude Disadvantage Good
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.
ALAIN PROST

Always Effort Go Ideal Limit Minimum Pole Possible Race Say Speed Think Win
You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.
ALAIN PROST

Also Car Fun Happy Quiet Real Sometimes Stop Want Well Work
One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.
ALAIN PROST

Biggest Clutch Problem Race Risk Season Start
When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
ALAIN PROST

Call Drove Fog Foreign Small Tadpole Team
The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair.
ALAIN PROST

Care Criticise Leg One People Take Wheelchair
People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
ALAIN PROST

Car Drive Maybe People Pleasure Understand

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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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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