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 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.
More Alain Prost Quotes
-
-
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 -
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.
ALAIN PROST -
I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
ALAIN PROST -
Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
ALAIN PROST -
I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
ALAIN PROST -
One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.
ALAIN PROST -
I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
ALAIN PROST -
Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
ALAIN PROST -
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.
ALAIN PROST -
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 PROST -
People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
ALAIN PROST -
You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
ALAIN PROST -
Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
ALAIN PROST -
The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair.
ALAIN PROST -
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.
ALAIN PROST