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Prost joined double world champion Niki Lauda at McLaren in 1984, driving the John Barnard designed McLaren MP4/2 which used a 1.5 litre TAG-Porsche V6 engine. He lost the world championship to Lauda in the final race of the season in Portugal by half a point, despite winning seven races to Lauda's five, [17] including winning in Portugal. [21]
The Drivers' Championship was won by Alain Prost, [1] Prost was the first driver to win back-to-back Drivers' Championships since Jack Brabham in 1959 and 1960. Together with Prost, Nigel Mansell , Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna dominated throughout the season and formed what was dubbed as the "Gang of Four".
Alain Prost (pictured in 1989 with McLaren) won his fourth and final title with Williams in his last season of F1 racing. Three-time world champion Ayrton Senna (pictured celebrating his win in Brazil) finished runner-up in his final season at McLaren Prost's teammate Damon Hill (pictured in 1995) finished the season ranked third in his first year with Williams.
The World Championship for Drivers was won by Ayrton Senna, and the World Championship for Constructors by McLaren-Honda. Senna and McLaren teammate Alain Prost won fifteen of the sixteen races between them; the only race neither driver won was the Italian Grand Prix , where Ferrari 's Gerhard Berger took an emotional victory four weeks after ...
In the Drivers' Championship, McLaren teammates Alain Prost and Niki Lauda enjoyed a season-long duel. Prost won seven races to equal Jim Clark 's record from 1963 , over Lauda's five, but the Austrian eventually prevailed by half a point – the smallest margin in Formula One history.
Alain Prost in 2012 There have been 74 Formula One drivers from France , the most successful of them being Alain Prost , who won the World Drivers' Championship four times. World champions and race winners
The 1989 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 43rd season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It began on 26 March and ended on 5 November. Alain Prost won his third Drivers' Championship, and McLaren won the Constructors' Championship.
The 1993 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Magny-Cours on 4 July 1993. It was the eighth race of the 1993 Formula One World Championship.. The 72-lap race was won by home favourite Alain Prost, driving a Williams-Renault, after he started from second position.