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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

Alain Prost

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Alain Prost
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 24
Race Car Driver
Racing Automobile Driver
Alain Marie Pascal Prost
Italians
Geniuses
Balance
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I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.
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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 was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.
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In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.
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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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People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.
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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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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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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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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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So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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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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Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!
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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 don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.
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When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.
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It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different 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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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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