Alain Prost Quotes

• You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

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

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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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• When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

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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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• The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.

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

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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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• People don’t understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it’s wet.

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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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• Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

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• It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

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• It’s like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.

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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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• In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

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• I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.

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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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Alain Prost (29)

Birth:	24th May, 1955
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Racer

About

Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur is a French racing driver. A four-time Formula One Drivers' Champion, Prost has won more titles than any driver except for Juan Manuel Fangio, and Michael Schumacher. From 1987 until 2001 Prost held the record for most Grand Prix victories. Schumacher surpassed Prost's total of 51 victories at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix. In 1999, Prost received the World Sports Awards of the Century in the motor sport category. In 1997, Prost took over the French Ligier team, running it as Prost Grand Prix until it went bankrupt in 2002. He currently competes in the Andros Trophy, which is an ice racing championship. Prost employed a smooth, relaxed style behind the wheel, deliberately modeling himself on personal heroes like Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark. He was nicknamed "The Professor" for his intellectual approach to competition. Skilled at setting up his car for race conditions, Prost would often conserve his brakes and tyres early on in a race, leaving them fresher for a challenge at the end.

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