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.
ALAIN PROSTSometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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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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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.
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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 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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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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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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That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.
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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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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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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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I 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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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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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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