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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.

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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I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.
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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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When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
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Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
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I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, 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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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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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on 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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It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
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