When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
ALAIN PROSTI like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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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 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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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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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’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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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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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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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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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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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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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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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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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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