People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
ALAIN PROSTI don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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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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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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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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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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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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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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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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