People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
ALAIN PROSTWhen 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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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 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.
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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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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 always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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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. 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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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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When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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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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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 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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