It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
ALAIN PROSTIn 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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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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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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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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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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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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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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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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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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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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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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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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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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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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