I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
ALAIN PROSTWhen I look fast, I’m not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
More Alain Prost Quotes
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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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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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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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People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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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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Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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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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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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It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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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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