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.
ALAIN PROSTDo 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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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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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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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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I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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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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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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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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When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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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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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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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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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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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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