Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
ALAIN PROSTPeople don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.
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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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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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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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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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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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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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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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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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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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I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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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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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 have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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