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.
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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I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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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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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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When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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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 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 work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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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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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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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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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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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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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 always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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