I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success.
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’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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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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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I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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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 think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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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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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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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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People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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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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Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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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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