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.
ALAIN PROSTI 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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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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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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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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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 think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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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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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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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 don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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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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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People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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