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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.

Alain Prost

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
People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.
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Car Condition Drove never People Unaware
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
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
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
When I drove for British teams… they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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Call Drove Fog Foreign Small Tadpole Team
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
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
It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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Attitude Disadvantage Good
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
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
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
You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
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Always Best Compromise Team
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
In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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Finish Four Place Seventh Three Time
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

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