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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Alain Prost

It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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Always Better Contact Direct Everyone Language Speak Team
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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Biggest Clutch Problem Race Risk Season Start
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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Fact Judge Long Only Sport Term Thing
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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Absolute All Below Day Go Limit never Right Same Speed Test
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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Best Bit Convince Country Good Little Quiet Team
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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Country Driver Good History Look Many Sport Understand
Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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Country Maybe Nowhere
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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Analyse Begin During Know Practice Race Win
Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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Better Mentality Result Some Sometimes Think
When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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Call Drove Fog Foreign Small Tadpole Team
It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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Attitude Disadvantage Good
I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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Build Confidence Experience Important Interest Very Well
When I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
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Fast Go Look Slow Smooth
I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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Country Like Mentality
You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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Always Best Compromise Team
You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.
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Also Car Fun Happy Quiet Real Sometimes Stop Want Well Work

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