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 PROSTOne 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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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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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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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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People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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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’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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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 its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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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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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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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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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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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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