If I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
ALAIN PROSTIf I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
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.
ALAIN PROSTI work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
ALAIN PROSTWhen I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
ALAIN PROSTThe people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair.
ALAIN PROSTA German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.
ALAIN PROSTSo 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.
ALAIN PROSTSometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
ALAIN PROSTWhen I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
ALAIN PROSTPeople who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
ALAIN PROSTI have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success.
ALAIN PROSTWhen 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.
ALAIN PROSTYou 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.
ALAIN PROSTI have had some problems because the French don’t like people to have success, they don’t like the number one.
ALAIN PROSTDo you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
ALAIN PROSTWhen 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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