In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
ALAIN PROSTI have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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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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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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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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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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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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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 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 I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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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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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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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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It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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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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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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I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success.
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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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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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