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.
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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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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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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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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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair.
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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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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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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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Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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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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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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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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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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