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.
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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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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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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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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 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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When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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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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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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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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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.
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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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