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Alain Prost

I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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Car Curb Go Hard Over Want
Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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Better Bit Help Mentality People Sometimes Team Understand
In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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Finish Four Place Seventh Three Time
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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Absolute All Below Day Go Limit never Right Same Speed Test
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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Everyone Gather Mad Motore Push Race Seventh Think Time Trend Win
People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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Car Drive Maybe People Pleasure Understand
I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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Always Anything Break Car Mentality
Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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Better Mentality Result Some Sometimes Think
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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Analyse Begin During Know Practice Race Win
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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Attack Change Could Good Hard Make Mistake Push
People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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Car Condition Drove never People Unaware
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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Hard Jealous People Problem Success Think Work
When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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Call Drove Fog Foreign Small Tadpole Team
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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Also Car Fun Happy Quiet Real Sometimes Stop Want Well Work
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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Country Number One People Problem Some Success
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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Best Bit Convince Country Good Little Quiet Team
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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Always Effort Go Ideal Limit Minimum Pole Possible Race Say Speed Think Win
Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
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Course Drive Idiot Nothing Scare
I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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Appreciate Hard Work
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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Another Hate Important Part Race Success
Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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Country Maybe Nowhere
I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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Always Beginning Same Start Way Weekend Work
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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Feel Fix Flat Good Like Out Outside Race Time Very Win
When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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Feel Good Race Very Win
I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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Brave Risk Say Sort Take
I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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Build Confidence Experience Important Interest Very Well
It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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Attitude Disadvantage Good

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