Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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.
More Alain Prost Quotes
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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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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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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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It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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I think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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