People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
ALAIN PROSTI was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
More Alain Prost Quotes
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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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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I think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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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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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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It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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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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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 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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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 very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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