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 PROSTI’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
More Alain Prost Quotes
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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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Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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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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I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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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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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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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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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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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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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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I have had some problems because the French don’t like people to have success, they don’t like the number one.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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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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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