One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.
ALAIN PROSTI always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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 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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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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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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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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When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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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 was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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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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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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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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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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