When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
ALAIN PROSTYou can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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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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People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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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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Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? – Of course it does – I’m not an idiot.
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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend.
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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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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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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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The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair.
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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 think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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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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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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