The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair.
ALAIN PROSTYou 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 don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
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So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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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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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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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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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 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 can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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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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I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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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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