That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.
ALAIN PROSTSome Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
More Alain Prost Quotes
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You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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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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Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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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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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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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 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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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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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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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’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.
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When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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