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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.

Alain Prost

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
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
It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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Attitude Disadvantage Good
You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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Always Best Compromise Team
Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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Centimetre Helmet Know Make Much Really Tallest
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
I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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Always Anything Break Car Mentality
Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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Balance Find Genius Have Some Country
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
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
It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
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Always Better Contact Direct Everyone Language Speak Team
I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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Always Beginning Same Start Way Weekend Work
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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Country Driver Good History Look Many Sport Understand
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
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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Fast Go Look Slow Smooth
In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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Finish Four Place Seventh Three Time
I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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Brave Risk Say Sort Take
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
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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Career Fact Judge Long Race Season Sport Term Thing
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
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 work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.
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Appreciate Hard Work
I think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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Bit English Maybe Reserve Something Stupid Think
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
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
Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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Country Maybe Nowhere
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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Fact Judge Long Only Sport Term Thing

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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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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