People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
ALAIN PROSTWhen I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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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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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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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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It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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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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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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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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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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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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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 think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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One 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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