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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

Alain Prost

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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Everyone Gather Mad Motore Push Race Seventh Think Time Trend Win
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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Attack Change Could Good Hard Make Mistake Push
Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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Country Maybe Nowhere
People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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Car Condition Drove never People Unaware
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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Country Number One People Problem Some Success
I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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Build Confidence Experience Important Interest Very Well
Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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Better Mentality Result Some Sometimes Think
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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Always Effort Go Ideal Limit Minimum Pole Possible Race Say Speed Think Win
I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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Appreciate Hard Work
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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Fast Go Look Slow Smooth
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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Absolute All Below Day Go Limit never Right Same Speed Test
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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Another Hate Important Part Race Success
You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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Always Best Compromise Team
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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Biggest Clutch Problem Race Risk Season Start
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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Best Bit Convince Country Good Little Quiet Team
I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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Brave Risk Say Sort Take

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

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