I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
ALAIN PROSTWithout 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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Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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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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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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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 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 was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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I think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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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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That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a 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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Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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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 have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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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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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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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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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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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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