I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
ALAIN PROSTA German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.
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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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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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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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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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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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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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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 who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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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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When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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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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It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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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 like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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