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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.

Alain Prost

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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Country Maybe Nowhere
It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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Attitude Disadvantage Good
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
In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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Finish Four Place Seventh Three Time
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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Biggest Clutch Problem Race Risk Season Start
I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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Country Like Mentality
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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Attack Change Could Good Hard Make Mistake Push
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
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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Everyone Gather Mad Motore Push Race Seventh Think Time Trend Win
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
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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Also Car Fun Happy Quiet Real Sometimes Stop Want Well Work
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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Hard Jealous People Problem Success Think Work
I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.
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Car Curb Go Hard Over Want
I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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Always Anything Break Car Mentality
You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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Always Best Compromise Team
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

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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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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