One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.
ALAIN PROSTSometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality.
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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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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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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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I like the mentality of the Americans. It’s like when you talk about money.
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A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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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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People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.
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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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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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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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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I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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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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