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 PROSTThe people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair.
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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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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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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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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 don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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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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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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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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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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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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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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