Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
ALAIN PROSTSo 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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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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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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I think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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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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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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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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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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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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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 always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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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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It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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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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If I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
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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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