The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair.
ALAIN PROSTSometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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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 don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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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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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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When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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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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