Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
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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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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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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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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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 always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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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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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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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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When I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
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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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I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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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 think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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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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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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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 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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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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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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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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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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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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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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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.
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