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 PROSTI 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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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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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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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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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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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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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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People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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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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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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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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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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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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I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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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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