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.
ALAIN PROSTI was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
More Alain Prost Quotes
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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.
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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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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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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 think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn’t understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.
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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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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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I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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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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Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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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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