I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
ALAIN PROSTSo 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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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 drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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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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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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It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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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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Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
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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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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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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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I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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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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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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