I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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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 no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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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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People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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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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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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