When was alain prost born

The MPs were untouchable in Prost held the upper hand for the first few races but Senna hit back hard, winning four in a row at mid-season. Advert Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free. That championship was decided in controversial fashion. Prost went into the penultimate race ahead on points and when Senna made to overtake his team mate Prost, well off the normal racing line, tangled with his team mate.

Prost joined Ferrari in , but lost his title Prost had already made arrangements to move to Ferrari. He took the number one with him and took the fight to Senna in the middle of the season. But returning to Suzuka the McLaren driver had the initiative and repaid Prost in kind for his tactics twelve months earlier. Though not quite with the same degree of subtltety — Senna rammed Prost off the track at the first corner at over a hundred miles an hour.

New team-mate Ayrton Senna won eight races and the title, but the on — and often off-track — battles pushed each driver to new, unprecedented heights of success. In Alain signed for Ferrari and won five races. Again, the championship went down to the wire, but it was Senna who took the win this time.

He would win seven more races - bringing his total to a then record 51 - and take his fourth driving title. Alain retired on a high at the end of the season. He has gone on to several different ventures inside and outside Formula 1, with Renault e. We also have two strong drivers that are very complementary and get on very well.

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race. Prost discovered karting at the age of 14 during a family holiday. Ranked on the list of most popular Race Car Driver. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in France. Alain Prost celebrates birthday on February 24 of every year. During the s and early s Prost formed a fierce sporting rivalry, mainly with Ayrton Senna but also Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell.

In , at Adelaide in the last race of the season, he beat Mansell and Piquet of Williams to the title, after Mansell retired late in the race and Piquet was pulled in for a late precautionary pit stop.

A year later at the same venue they collided again, but this time Prost, driving for Ferrari, lost out. Before the end of a winless season Prost was fired by Ferrari for his public criticism of the team. With a competitive car, Prost won the championship and retired from Formula One driving at the end of the year.

Motor sports author Nigel Roebuck reports that there were problems between Prost and Arnoux from the start of the season, Prost being immediately quicker than his more experienced teammate. He also did not finish in the next four races, and then won his first Formula One race at his home Grand Prix in France at the fast Dijon circuit, finishing two seconds ahead of his old teammate John Watson. In November , three years before it became a round of the F1 World Championship, Prost, along with fellow F1 drivers Jacques Laffite and Nelson Piquet, made the trip to Melbourne, Australia to drive in the non-championship Australian Grand Prix at the short 1.

He then led every lap to win what would be the first of 3 Australian Grand Prix wins. He finished Prost won the first two Grands Prix of the season in South Africa, where Prost recovered from losing a wheel, and Brazil, where he finished 3rd but was awarded the win after Piquet 1st and Keke Rosberg 2nd were disqualified.

He finished in the points on four other occasions, but did not win again. His relationship with Arnoux deteriorated further after the French Grand Prix. Prost believes that Arnoux, who won the race, went back on a pre-race agreement to support Prost during the race. His relationship with the French media was also poor.

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