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Alain Prost was born in the commune of Lorette near the town of Saint-Chamond, in the département of Loire close to Saint-Étienne, France to André Prost and Marie-Rose Karatchian, born in France of Armenian descent. [1] [3] His father ran a furniture store. [4] Prost had one older brother called Daniel, who died of cancer in September 1986.
Prost Grand Prix was a Formula One racing team owned and managed by four-time Formula One world champion Alain Prost. The team participated in five seasons from 1997 to 2001. The team participated in five seasons from 1997 to 2001.
The Prost–Senna rivalry, or Senna–Prost rivalry, was a Formula One rivalry between French racing driver Alain Prost and Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna.Widely regarded as one of the fiercest rivalries in Formula One history, [a] Prost and Senna together won seven of nine Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles between 1985 and 1993, including two whilst teammates at McLaren ...
The pole-winning run tied Verstappen with Alain Prost in opening the season with six consecutive poles. Prost did it in 1993. “Good start," Verstappen radioed his team. “Let's keep it going.”
Alain Prost says he hopes the major changes at Alpine will be an "electroshock" to a team suffering from too much corporate interference.
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.
Senna was scheduled to film an in-car lap of the Imola Circuit for French television channel TF1, where his now-retired rival Alain Prost was working as a pundit. They ate breakfast together, and Senna encouraged Prost to help out with a proposed revival of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA), the old Formula One drivers' trade union.
Alain Prost took his first pole position for McLaren with a time of 1:22.661, just ahead of the Lotus-Renault of Nigel Mansell. Prost's pole was also the first pole for the McLaren MP4/2 as well as for the TAG-Porsche engine. Stefan Bellof was the only non-turbo qualifier in his Tyrrell-Cosworth. Bellof qualified 20th and last while Brundle's ...