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 PROSTI think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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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 was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a 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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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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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One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.
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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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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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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.
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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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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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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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