I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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 drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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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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I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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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 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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Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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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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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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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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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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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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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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I think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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