Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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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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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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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 was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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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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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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So I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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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 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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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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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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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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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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