"When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner"
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The subtext is a little less heroic than the way we mythologize drivers. We love the fantasy of pure willpower: the great talent who can conjure speed from chaos. Alesi points to something more human and more uncomfortable: performance often looks like character when it’s actually conditions. Put a driver in the midfield mess and concentration gets taxed by uncertainty, risk management, and the constant need to improvise. Up front, precision becomes easier to sustain because the environment is less noisy.
Context matters with Alesi because his career is practically a case study in talent constrained by machinery. He was renowned for aggression and feel, but rarely enjoyed the sustained dominance that makes “good position” routine. The line reads like lived experience, not motivational poster talk: being fast is partly about being free to be fast.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Alesi, Jean. (2026, January 18). When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-you-are-in-a-good-position-you-are-sure-to-13418/
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Alesi, Jean. "When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-you-are-in-a-good-position-you-are-sure-to-13418/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-you-are-in-a-good-position-you-are-sure-to-13418/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.




