One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.
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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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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When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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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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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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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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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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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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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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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I think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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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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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 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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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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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 always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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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 work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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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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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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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 was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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