Alain Prost
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| First start: | 1980 Argentine Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1993 Australian Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1980 McLaren • 1981–1983 Renault • 1984–1989 McLaren • 1990–1991 Ferrari • 1993 Williams | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | World Champion ( 1985 , 1986 , 1989 , 1993 ) | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | 798.5 | ||||||||
| Podiums : | 106 | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | 2684 over 12,483.9 km | ||||||||
Alain Marie Pascal Prost , OBE (born February 24, 1955 in Saint-Chamond ) is a French racing driver of Armenian- French origin. Between 1980 and 1993 he competed in a total of 199 Grand Prix in Formula 1 . From 1997 to 2001 Prost led his own Formula 1 team called the Prost Grand Prix . Since 2003 he has been active again as a racing driver and regularly competes in the French ice racing series Trophée Andros .
Alain Prost is one of the most successful drivers in Formula 1 history: he was world champion and runner- up four times and won a total of 51 Grand Prix . Many of his numerous best marks lasted until they were exceeded by Michael Schumacher . In 1999 Alain Prost received the prize in the Motorsport category at the World Sports Awards of the Century , alongside greats such as Pelé , Muhammad Ali , Carl Lewis and Steffi Graf .
At the end of the 1980s, Prost became known to a broader public primarily through his constant rivalry with the Brazilian Ayrton Senna , with whom he dueled intensively beyond the racetrack. In the four seasons in which both left all other drivers in the fight for the world title behind them (1988–1990 and 1993), each of them won the title twice.
Career
Beginnings in motorsport
At the age of 14, Prost began his motorsport career in karting in 1969 . He remained active in this sport until 1975. Among other things, he won the French kart championship in 1974. In 1976 he switched to formula racing and immediately won the championship title of the French Formula Renault with 12 wins from 13 races . A year later he also won the European Formula Renault. In 1978 Prost competed in various Formula 3 racing series. He was most successful in the French Formula 3 championship , in which he won the championship title. He finished ninth in the European Formula 3 championship . In 1979 he succeeded in winning the championship title in both French and European Formula 3. Prost had the opportunity to make his Formula 1 debut for McLaren , who wanted to field a third car, at the last race of the 1979 season . He surprised the racing team with a rejection on the grounds that the operation would not help him or the team.
formula 1
McLaren (1980)
For the 1980 Formula 1 season , Prost received a contract with the McLaren Formula 1 team, which at that time was still operated by Teddy Mayer . His teammate was the Briton John Watson , who had switched to McLaren the previous year. In his debut race, the Argentine Grand Prix at the Autódromo Municipal Ciudad de Buenos Aires , he scored his first world championship point in sixth place. The last time this was achieved in 1973 was the American George Follmer when he made his debut. A race later in Brazil , he scored more points in fifth. That result became his best result in his debut season, when he scored sixth in two other races. However, Prost's first season was also marked by some technical problems and accidents. Prost suffered a wrist injury in an accident at the South African Grand Prix in Kyalami . As a result, he was unable to start a race and was represented by Stephen South , who was unable to qualify. At the season finale in the USA , Prost had to pause again after a training accident. At the end of the season he finished 16th in the drivers' championship with five points and was only one point less than his teammate Watson. Although he still had a contract for two more years, Prost left McLaren after the season. He justified the departure, among other things, with the large number of technical defects in his car.
Renault (1981-1983)
- 1981
In 1981 Prost switched to Equipe Renault and became a teammate of his compatriot René Arnoux , who had won two races for Renault the previous year. According to the motorsport journalist Nigel Roebuck, there were problems between the teammates from the start, because Prost was immediately faster than Arnoux. The racing driver dropped out five times in the first six races and finished third in Argentina for the first time on the podium. He won his first race at his home Grand Prix at the Circuit de Dijon-Prenois . Later in the season he won the Dutch and Italian Grand Prix and was second on the podium in two other races. He dropped out at all other races. So he was on the podium in every race that finished the season. In the driver's world championship he finished fifth overall, seven points behind world champion Nelson Piquet . Within the team, he clearly prevailed against Arnoux with 43 to 11 points. Besides Prost, only world champion Piquet could show three victories.
- 1982
In 1982 Prost started the new season well and won the first two races. In Kyalami, South Africa , Prost initially led the race up to a puncture that pushed him seven positions back. Then Prost was able to set a new lap record with new tires, overtake all drivers who were in front of him and had older tires and win the race. This was the first time in his career that he took the lead in the World Cup. In Brazil he was awarded the victory retrospectively, as Piquet and Keke Rosberg , who crossed the finish line before him, were disqualified for being underweight. However, as the season progressed, he did not succeed in winning any more races. The tense relationship between Prost and Arnoux was burdened again this season, as Arnoux, who had been asked to swap places by Renault at the French Grand Prix , refused to let his team-mate pass. He finished the season in fourth place, ten points behind world champion Rosberg and was able to improve again. At the end of the season he was again ahead of Arnoux, who then left Renault for Ferrari .
- 1983
In 1983 Prost got a new teammate in the form of the American Eddie Cheever . Prost won four Grand Prix this season and led the World Championship for a long time. He was also the pilot with the most wins. In the end, however, it was not enough to win the title, as Piquet was able to show two points more than Prost with a race to catch up at the end of the season. Prost finished second and clearly beat Cheever, who finished seventh overall, within the team. After the season there were differences between Prost and Renault. Prost was of the opinion that Renault had developed the car too conservatively, while Renault blamed the racing driver for not winning the world title. The French fans also resented him for displacing Arnoux, who had finished third for Ferrari this season, from the team. Prost was eventually fired from Renault two days after the season finale. Prost also left France and moved to Switzerland with his family.
McLaren (1984-1989)
- 1984
In 1984 Prost returned to McLaren, replacing his former teammate John Watson. At McLaren, some changes had happened in the meantime. Mayer had been replaced as team boss by Ron Dennis , who together with Techniques d'Avant Garde (TAG) had taken over the racing team and merged with his own racing team, Project Four Racing . TAG also financed turbo engines from Porsche . Prost's teammate was Niki Lauda , who had won the world title twice in the 1970s and returned to Formula 1 for McLaren in 1982. The season started well for Prost, who won the opening race in Brazil . Two races later, he also won the San Marino Grand Prix . In the sixth race of the season, the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo , Prost initially achieved pole position . On race Sunday the start had to be postponed by 45 minutes due to heavy rain. Prost initially led the race by a larger margin. However, Ayrton Senna and Stefan Bellof , who were behind him, came to terms with the conditions better and better and caught up with the leader. Finally, the race was canceled after 31 laps with the red flag. Senna was angry about this situation because he had caught up with Prost and had good chances of victory with faster lap times. Since 75% of the original distance had not yet been completed, only half points were awarded. In the further course of the season, Prost won four more races with victories in Germany , the Netherlands , Europe and Portugal . Although he had two wins more than Lauda, he was beaten by his teammate at the end of the season. Lauda became world champion with 72 points and was only half a point ahead of Prost. The title decision was the tightest decision so far for the world championship title in Formula 1. Prost had scored more than twice as many points on the remaining drivers.
- 1985
In 1985 Prost stayed with McLaren. His teammate Lauda was represented by Watson for a race. As in the previous season, Prost won the opening race in Brazil . Later in the season he won the Monaco , Great Britain , Austria and Italy Grand Prix in a McLaren MP4 / 2 . In total, he was on the podium eleven times. As only the best eleven results were counted this season, the other races were not counted. At the end of the season, Prost won the driver's world title for the first time in his career and became the first Frenchman . He was 20 points ahead of his greatest rival for the title, Michele Alboreto . Within the team too, Prost was clearly the strongest pilot and he beat Lauda with 73 to 14 points. For his achievements, Prost was awarded the Légion d'honneur in France.
- 1986
After Lauda had finally ended his Formula 1 career at the end of the world championship in 1985, Keke Rosberg, the Formula 1 world champion of the 1982 season, became Prost's new McLaren teammate in 1986 . Although Prost decided the duel against Rosberg, who was to leave Formula 1 after this season, clearly for himself, in the title decision he had to deal with the Williams drivers Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet, who used Honda engines. At the San Marino Grand Prix , Prost clearly led the race. Three turns before the finish line, he realized that he was running out of fuel. He still managed to steer the car to the finish and celebrated his first win of the season. At the German Grand Prix , Prost ran out of gas again. In fourth place he stayed on the home stretch. Prost got out of his car and tried to push it over the finish line. He didn't succeed, but since enough pilots had been lapped, he was classified in sixth. With a total of three wins, Prost came second, six points behind Mansell, to the season finale, the Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide . Mansell was ahead of Prost in the race and was thus able to win the title. However, the Briton suffered a tire damage at top speed. Piquet, Mansell's team-mate, who was leading the race at the time, was then called into the pits for a safety stop. Prost took over the lead of the race and won it. He also took the lead in the world championship and defended his title. He was only two points ahead of Mansell, who had won the most races that season with five wins. Once again Prost was able to score points in more than eleven races and eleven podium placements were included in the ranking.
- 1987
For the 1987 season , Prost got a new team-mate in Stefan Johansson . The Swede switched from Ferrari to McLaren. He benefited from good contacts with Marlboro , the main sponsor of McLaren. Although Prost started the season well with two wins from the first three races, as the season progressed it became clear that he had no chance of winning the world championship title, which Williams drivers Piquet and Mansell were trying to achieve. However, Prost scored his third win of the season at the Portuguese Grand Prix in Estoril , which was his 28th Formula 1 victory. He broke the record previously held by Jackie Stewart and became the Formula 1 driver with the most wins. He only lost this record to Michael Schumacher in the 2000s . He finished fourth in the drivers' world championship that year and beat Johansson within the team with 46 to 30 points.
- 1988
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Although Williams had won the drivers 'and constructors' world titles with Piquet, engine partner Honda left the team because Williams did not want to use a Japanese driver. Honda eventually switched to McLaren in 1988 . Prost had advised his team boss Ron Dennis to give Senna, who had finished third for Lotus with Honda engines last year , a three-year contract to lure Honda to McLaren. During the season a rivalry developed between the two pilots. McLaren dominated the season, winning 15 of 16 races. Senna won eight races, cheers seven. At the Monaco Grand Prix , Prost benefited from an accident Sennas, who spun while in the lead and was eliminated. Prost received criticism after retiring from the UK Grand Prix due to heavy rain while Senna won the race. In the further course of the season Prost only retired once again with a technical defect. At the end of the season, Prost had seven wins and seven second places. Since only the best eleven results were evaluated, three second places for Prost were not included in the evaluation. Senna, who was not on the podium in several races, benefited from having one more win than Prost. After deducting the deleted results, Senna was world champion with 90 to 87 points ahead of Prost. All the other pilots had scored less than half as many points as Prost or Senna.
- 1989
In 1989 , McLaren was as dominant as the previous season with 10 wins from 16 races. At the second Grand Prix of the year in San Marino , the relationship between the two drivers was further strained. Despite the agreement not to overtake the leading team-mate, Senna drove past Prost and won the race. As a result, communication within the team was only indirect via the mechanics. After the first four races, Senna had three wins, while Prost took second place three times. At the US Grand Prix , the team-internal duel turned in favor of Prost. By the penultimate race he won three more races and led the world championship with 16 points. Due to the regulations at that time, in which only the best eleven results were entered into the world championship, Prost was disadvantaged in that he already had eleven podium finishes (four wins, six second places, one third place), while Senna only had seven races Could score points. With that, the Brazilian was able to become world champion with two victories on his own, despite the gap of 16 points, even if Prost would have finished second in both races. In the penultimate race, the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka , the two drivers finally collided. After Prost led the race on lap 46, Senna tried to overtake his team-mate in the chicane. Prost tried to prevent the overtaking maneuver, whereupon both cars got stuck and stopped in the run-off zone. While Prost left the car immediately, Senna was pushed a little further by the marshals to be rescued. As it was going downhill, Senna's car picked up speed and started again. After a repair stop, he managed to win the race after an overtaking maneuver against Alessandro Nannini . However, Nannini was honored as the winner at the podium ceremony. Senna was disqualified for missing the chicane. McLaren appealed this decision, but the disqualification was confirmed. Senna was also fined $ 100,000.
Prost thus prematurely became world champion for the third time. With both McLaren drivers retiring from the season finale, a different FIA decision at the Japanese Grand Prix would not have resulted in a different title decision. After six years, Prost left McLaren at the end of the season.
Ferrari (1990-1991)
- 1990
In 1990 Prost moved to Scuderia Ferrari and replaced Gerhard Berger , who in return became Prost's successor at McLaren. His teammate was Mansell, who had switched to the Italian racing team a year earlier. After a retirement on his Ferrari debut, Prost won the second race of the season in Brazil . Four races later, at the Mexican Grand Prix , he won another race that he started from 13th place. Ferrari also celebrated a double victory with Mansell in second place. The two following Grand Prix of France and Great Britain also won Prost after his teammate was eliminated while in the lead. Another double victory for Ferrari followed at the Spanish Grand Prix with Prost in first place. As in the previous year, the title duel resulted in a duel between Prost and Senna. At the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka, Prost won the start. However, there was already a collision between the two drivers caused by Senna in the first corner, and both of them retired. The World Cup was thus decided in favor of the Brazilian. Prost was vice world champion with 71 to 78 points. With that he had almost twice as many points as his team-mate Mansell, who only collected 37 points, but was also absent more often due to technical defects.
- 1991
For the 1991 season Mansell left Ferrari because of his difficult relationship with Prost and returned to Williams. Prost's new teammate was his compatriot Jean Alesi , who had previously started for Tyrrell . Ferrari could not match the results of the previous year this year. Even a revision of the chassis did not bring the racing team any closer to their competitors McLaren and Williams. For the first time since his debut season, Prost went without a win. Three second places were his best results. After comparing the driving behavior of his car with that of a truck at the Japanese Grand Prix , the racing team dismissed him one race before the end of the season. Prost has been replaced by Gianni Morbidelli . In the world championship, Prost took fifth place. Within the team, he prevailed against Alesi with 34 to 21 points.
Williams (1993)
In 1992 Prost did not take part in any Formula 1 races and only completed test drives for Ligier . Prost's former team-mate Mansell won the world title for Williams this season. The British racing team signed Prost for the coming year during the season. Mansell then announced that he would leave the team for the next season. In order not to meet Senna again, Prost's contract with Williams contained a clause that Senna could not switch to Williams in 1993 . Prost's teammate for the 1993 season was Damon Hill , who had competed in a few races for Brabham the previous year .
Prost had a racing car that year with the Williams FW15C that enabled him to take the title. With seven wins out of 16 races, Prost was the driver with the most wins. In addition, his previous weakness no longer existed in qualifying and he achieved pole position 13 times. At the end of the season he won the world championship title for the fourth time with a lead of 26 points over Senna. Prost announced his retirement from Formula 1 three races before the end of the season. Senna was eventually signed by Williams as his successor. Prost celebrated his last victory at the German Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring . In the same year he was chosen by the sports newspaper L'Équipe for the fourth time after 1985, 1986 and 1991 as France's Sportsman of the Year (“ Champion des champions ”).
Prost ended his active Formula 1 career with numerous records: At this point in time, no other driver had more victories, championship points, podiums or fastest laps. In the course of his Formula 1 career, he also managed to beat each of his three world champion team-mates Niki Lauda , Keke Rosberg and Ayrton Senna on points. Even Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill , the cheers were each inferior in direct comparison, were world champions later.
In 1995, Prost took part in Formula 1 test drives for the McLaren team for the last time.
Second racing career (since 2003)
Prost is currently active again as a racing driver. Since the end of 2003 he has been taking part in the winter ice racing series Trophée Andros , which he won for the first time in early 2007 in a Toyota Auris with all-wheel drive and all-wheel steering . In 2003/2004 and 2005/2006 Prost finished the championship with second and 2004/2005 with third place in the overall ranking. After a total of 14 races in the 2007/2008 championship, Prost was able to win this race series again on February 2, 2008 with his Toyota Auris, which was powered by a V6 engine from the Lexus RX 300 with a displacement of 3 l and a good 350 hp and defend the coveted Andros trophy. In 2009/2010 he secured the Andros runner-up for the fourth time behind Škoda Fabia driver Jean-Philippe Dayraut . For the series of 13 races in 2009/2010, Prost switched from Toyota to Dacia and competed for the Renault subsidiary with the SUV model Dacia Duster, which will only be available in stores from April 2010 .
In 2005 Prost also competed in the French GT championship. In a Chrysler Viper GTS-R , he took part in twelve races and won one race for himself. He finished the season in eleventh place overall. In July 2005 he won the DTM show event Race of Legends at the Norisring against some of his former rivals.
Prost Grand Prix (1997-2001)
In 1997 Prost took over the traditional French racing team Ligier and renamed it the Prost Grand Prix . Prost himself was active as the team boss of the racing team. Prost Grand Prix took part in Formula 1 until 2001 . At the end of 2001 the racing team had to file for bankruptcy.
The team took part in 83 races in five seasons. The best overall placement was sixth place in the 1997 drivers' championship. The team, which had two second places as the best results, was unable to win.
Driving style
Strengthen
As a racing driver, Prost embodied the type of analyst behind the wheel. His scientific approach to setting up the car, his tactical intelligence and his ability to “read” the race from the cockpit helped Prost gain the nickname “Professor” even when he was still active.
In addition to his basic speed, his consistency and precise and clean driving style were other strengths. Prost seemed to be doing his rounds as if on rails. His calm and smooth driving style, the advantages of which he had learned to appreciate from his role model Jim Clark , often hid the speed at which he was traveling from the naked eye.
During his active time, Prost was generally considered a fair driver. However, the controversial collision with Senna in Suzuka in 1989, for which Prost has denied any intention to this day, clouded this picture for many.
The intense rivalry between the established Prost and the rising Senna, which was not only fought out on the slopes but also via the media, was one of the great rivalries in motorsport. Motorsport experts consider the battle between Prost and Senna to be the archetypal argument between two fundamentally different types: on the one hand the calculating Prost, on the other the impulsive Senna. The years of rivalry between these two exceptional drivers culminated in the controversially discussed collisions of Suzuka in 1989 and 1990 and only ended in 1993 with Prost's retirement from Formula 1.
Like hardly any other driver in Formula 1 history, Prost had to fight high-class competition in his own team: five of his teammates were already or later became world champions. With a few exceptions, Prost always managed to beat his teammates in the world championship. In his debut season, in which he had to pause two races due to an accident, he lost the duel against Watson. Four years later he lost the internal stable duel and with it the world championship against Lauda by half a point - the smallest gap in Formula 1 history. 1988 was Prost under the terms of discard control despite higher score only the runner-up title behind his teammate Senna. Apart from Lauda, Prost is the only Formula 1 driver who became world champion again after a comeback (1993).
weaknesses
In the qualification, Prost's material-friendly driving style had disadvantages: Judging by his qualities in the race, Prost's relative weakness was in the fast lap, where he had difficulties with his soft driving style in getting the qualifying tires up to operating temperature. In addition, Prost was handicapped during his time at McLaren because, unlike the competition from BMW, the Porsche turbo engines financed by TAG had not developed any separate, more powerful qualification engines. In addition, he was less inclined here than in the race to put everything on one card. The starting position was of secondary importance in Prost's racing calculation.
Prost revealed another weakness when driving on damp or wet roads. When he pitted in the middle of the race in the rain at the Great Britain Grand Prix in 1988 and reported handling problems, this earned him fierce criticism. When he considered the start of the race in Adelaide to be irresponsible in view of the torrential rain a year later and as the only pilot turned into the pit lane as agreed after the warm-up lap, this earned him not only the usual criticism, but also the secret respect of some colleagues. Prost's deep aversion to rain races, he himself left no doubt, did not result from the slippery surface, but from the lack of visibility and from his experience at the Hockenheimring in 1982, when the world championship leader Didier Pironi did not suspect him in the splashing water that was thrown up, on Prost's Renault got up and took to the air, and had to retire from serious injuries sustained in the accident. Prost, who was by nature prudent, shied away from unnecessary risks even more.
Racing philosophy
Prost's racing philosophy during his career can be described with the old racing driver truism "to finish first, you have to finish first" . Winning was the most important thing for Prost. However, thanks to his iron self-discipline, Prost has internalized the realization that every victory requires the work vehicle to be transported safely across the finish line than many of his rivals. In the mid-1980s when refueling was banned in particular, Prost usually began his races cautiously in order to gain positions towards the end of the race.
Aftermath of the Prost era
The importance of Prost for the development of the modern pilot lies in the fact that he brought a professionalism into Formula 1 at the time, which sought success in a previously unknown uncompromising manner and saw the pilot's profession as a full-time activity. While the generation before Prost was dominated by the type of racing driver who was practically closed after crossing the finish line, the generation after him were already routinely characterized by those characteristics that, in addition to talent, increasingly became the key to success in Formula 1 : the methodology of a scientist, the fitness of a high-performance athlete and the absolute concentration of a chess player.
Prost recognized the value of meticulous work outside of the cockpit early on : In an era when teams and drivers in Formula 1 were by no means able to unwind scientific test programs and carry out demanding fitness programs, Prost stood out at work on Auto is characterized by its special mechanical understanding and its intensive working relationship with the engineers.
Personal
Alain Prost was near Saint-Chamond in the French department of Loire born. His parents are the French cabinet maker André Prost and the Armenian Marie-Rose Prost-Karatchian. Daniel Prost (1953–1986), the older brother of Alain Prost, died in 1986 of cancer.
Alain Prost practiced various sports in his childhood and broke his nose several times in his childhood. During a family vacation in the south of France, he first sat in a kart at the age of 14.
Prost has been married to Anne-Marie since 1980. The two have two sons (born 1981 and 1990 respectively). In addition, Prost has a daughter from another relationship (* 1996). His eldest son Nicolas Prost is also a racing driver.
Others
When the FIA introduced a former racing driver as fourth race steward for the 2010 Formula 1 season , Prost was the first former Formula 1 driver to hold this position at the Bahrain Grand Prix .
Alain Prost has also been working as a brand ambassador for Renault since February 2012, advising the French manufacturer in this role, especially with regard to their involvement in motorsport. In addition, he occasionally sits behind the wheel during demonstration drives.
In the volume " Asterix in Italy " from the Asterix comic series , one of the racing drivers wears the physiognomic features of Alain Prost.
statistics
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Statistics in the automobile / Formula 1 world championship
These statistics include all participations of the driver in the Formula 1 World Championship , which until 1980 was known as the Automobile World Championship.
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general overview
| season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
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| 1980 | Marlboro Team McLaren | McLaren M29B / M30 | Ford Cosworth 3.0 V8 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 16. |
| 1981 | Equipe Renault Elf | Renault RE20B / RE30 | Renault 1.5 V6 Turbo | 15th | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 43 | 5. |
| 1982 | Equipe Renault Elf | Renault RE30B | Renault 1.5 V6 Turbo | 16 | 2 | 2 | - | 5 | 4th | 34 | 4th |
| 1983 | Equipe Renault Elf | Renault RE30C / RE40 | Renault 1.5 V6 Turbo | 15th | 4th | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 57 | 2. |
| 1984 | Marlboro McLaren International | McLaren MP4 / 2 | TAG 1.5 V6 Turbo | 16 | 7th | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 71.5 | 2. |
| 1985 | Marlboro McLaren International | McLaren MP4 / 2B | TAG 1.5 V6 Turbo | 16 | 5 | 2 | 4th | 2 | 5 | 76 (73) | 1. |
| 1986 | Marlboro McLaren International | McLaren MP4 / 2C | TAG 1.5 V6 Turbo | 16 | 4th | 4th | 3 | 1 | 2 | 74 (72) | 1. |
| 1987 | Marlboro McLaren International | McLaren MP4 / 3 | TAG 1.5 V6 Turbo | 16 | 3 | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | 46 | 4th |
| 1988 | Honda Marlboro McLaren | McLaren MP4 / 4 | Honda 1.5 V6 Turbo | 16 | 7th | 7th | - | 2 | 7th | 105 (87) | 2. |
| 1989 | Honda Marlboro McLaren | McLaren MP4 / 5 | Honda 3.5 V10 | 16 | 4th | 6th | 1 | 2 | 5 | 81 (76) | 1. |
| 1990 | Scuderia Ferrari SpA | Ferrari 641 | Ferrari 3.5 V12 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | - | 2 | 73 (71) | 2. |
| 1991 | Scuderia Ferrari SpA | Ferrari 642 / 643 | Ferrari 3.5 V12 | 14th | - | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 34 | 5. |
| 1993 | Canon Williams Renault | Williams FW15C | Renault 3.5 V10 | 16 | 7th | 3 | 2 | 13 | 6th | 99 | 1. |
| total | 199 | 51 | 35 | 20th | 33 | 41 | 798.5 | ||||
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| colour | abbreviation | meaning |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
Statistics in the Trophée Andros series
- 2003/2004: 2nd overall in a Toyota Corolla 4 × 4
- 2004/2005: 3rd overall in a Toyota Corolla 4 × 4
- 2005/2006: 2nd overall in a Toyota Corolla 4 × 4
- 2006/2007: Overall winner in a Toyota Auris 4 × 4
- 2007/2008: Overall winner in a Toyota Auris 4 × 4
- 2008/2009: 2nd overall in a Toyota Auris 4 × 4
- 2009/2010: 2nd overall on a Dacia Duster 4 × 4
- 2011/2012: Overall winner in a Dacia Lodgy 4 × 4
literature
- Malcolm Folley: Senna versus cheers . Century, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-84605-540-9 (English).
- Maurice Hamilton: Alain Prost . Blink Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-1905825981 (English).
- Christopher Hilton: Alain Prost - Born to be a world champion . Serag, 1992, ISBN 3-908007-73-9 .
Web links
- Alain Prost - fansite with interviews, photos, statistics (updated regularly)
- Appreciating the Professor - Appreciating Prost as the epitome of the analytical racing driver
- Motorsport archive - Prost's career in numbers
- Formula1 - biography on the official Formula 1 website
- Alain Prost on f1racing.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sportskeeda, Dec 3, 2012
- ↑ a b The suffering of the Armenians stirs up emotions . Day indicator . January 25, 2012. Retrieved November 3, 2013
- ↑ a b John Nauright, Charles Parrish: Sports around the World. History, Culture, and Practice. ABC-Clio, LLC, 2012. p. 415
- ^ The Independent, Nov 21, 1999 , accessed March 8, 2008
- ↑ Jet, Dec 13, 1999 (Engl.) ( Memento of 12 July 2012 in the Web archive archive.today ), polled 8 March 2008
- ↑ Prostfan.com - Profile (Engl.) , Polled 8 March 2008
- ^ A b Roebuck, Nigel Grand Prix Greats 1986, p. 126. Book Club Associates ISBN 0-85059-792-7
- ↑ a b c d e f g "Alain Prost"
- ^ A b Roebuck, Nigel Grand Prix Greats 1986, p. 129. Book Club Associates ISBN 0-85059-792-7
- ↑ “1982 Brazilian Grand Prix” (formula1.com; accessed November 27, 2010)
- ↑ “GRAND PRIX RESULTS: MONACO GP, 1984” (grandprix.com; accessed December 1, 2010)
- ↑ “8W - Who? - Alain Prost ” (forix.com; accessed December 13, 2010)
- ↑ "GRAND PRIX RESULTS: JAPANESE GP, 1989" (grandprix.com; accessed December 15, 2010)
- ^ Murray Walker & Simon Taylor Murray Walker's Formula One Heroes page 108, section 2. Virgin Books, ISBN 1-85227-918-4
- ↑ Zapelloni, Umberto. Formula Ferrari. Hodder & Stoughton. Page 17. ISBN 0-340-83471-4 .
- ↑ Menard and Vassal (2003), p. 138.
- ↑ “1921 - 1954” (prostfan.com; accessed December 15, 2010)
- ↑ a b “Alain's Personal Profile” (prostfan.com; accessed on December 15, 2010)
- ↑ “Alain Prost” (formula1.com; accessed December 15, 2010)
- ^ "Ex-driver as stewards: Prost welcomes Novum" (Motorsport-Total.com on March 13, 2010)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cheers, Alain |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prost, Alain Marie Pascal (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French automobile racing driver and four-time Formula 1 world champion |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Chamond |