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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

Alain Prost

When I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
ALAIN PROST

Fast Go Look Slow Smooth
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 PROST

Always Effort Go Ideal Limit Minimum Pole Possible Race Say Speed Think Win
When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
ALAIN PROST

Call Drove Fog Foreign Small Tadpole Team
If I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
ALAIN PROST

Attack Change Could Good Hard Make Mistake Push
I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
ALAIN PROST

Appreciate Hard Work
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.
ALAIN PROST

Everyone Gather Mad Motore Push Race Seventh Think Time Trend Win
Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
ALAIN PROST

Balance Find Genius Have Some Country
You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
ALAIN PROST

Always Best Compromise Team
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 PROST

Feel Fix Flat Good Like Out Outside Race Time Very Win
In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
ALAIN PROST

Finish Four Place Seventh Three Time
I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
ALAIN PROST

Car Curb Go Hard Over Want
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.
ALAIN PROST

Absolute All Below Day Go Limit never Right Same Speed Test
It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
ALAIN PROST

Always Better Contact Direct Everyone Language Speak Team
I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
ALAIN PROST

Always Anything Break Car Mentality
I have had some problems because the French don’t like people to have success, they don’t like the number one.
ALAIN PROST

Country Number One People Problem Some Success
It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
ALAIN PROST

Attitude Disadvantage Good

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

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