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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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It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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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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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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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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Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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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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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 have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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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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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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