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.
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 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.
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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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I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn’t understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.
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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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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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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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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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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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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 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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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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Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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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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