When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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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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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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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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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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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 you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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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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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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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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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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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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