Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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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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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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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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A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.
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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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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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It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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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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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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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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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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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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