When I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
ALAIN PROSTWhen 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’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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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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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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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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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 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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People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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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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Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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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