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You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

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
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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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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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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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I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
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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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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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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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When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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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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Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot.
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It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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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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I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.
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I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.
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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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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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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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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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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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