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.
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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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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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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People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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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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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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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It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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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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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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