A biography for Alain Prosthasn’t been written yet.
“You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.”
“It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.”
“In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.”
“I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.”
“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.”
“That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.”
“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.”
“Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.”
“You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.”
“I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth and I could have gone quicker, but I had to go slow. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done.”
“It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.”
“People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.”
“One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.”
“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.”
“A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.”
“I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.”
“I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.”