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I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.

Alain Prost

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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Career Fact Judge Long Race Season Sport Term Thing
I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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Always Beginning Same Start Way Weekend Work
When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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Call Drove Fog Foreign Small Tadpole Team
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 PROST

Also Car Fun Happy Quiet Real Sometimes Stop Want Well Work
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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Everyone Gather Mad Motore Push Race Seventh Think Time Trend Win
So I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.
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Analyse Begin During Know Practice Race Win
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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Always Effort Go Ideal Limit Minimum Pole Possible Race Say Speed Think Win
People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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Car Drive Maybe People Pleasure Understand
When I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
ALAIN PROST

Fast Go Look Slow Smooth
I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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Car Curb Go Hard Over Want
Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
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Course Drive Idiot Nothing Scare
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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Absolute All Below Day Go Limit never Right Same Speed Test
You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
ALAIN PROST

Always Best Compromise Team
It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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Attitude Disadvantage Good
I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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Country Like Mentality
That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.
ALAIN PROST

Another Hate Important Part Race Success

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