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Prost won several karting championships in his teens. In 1974, he became a full-time racer. [1] He won the French senior karting championship in 1975. [6] Prost made the transition to open-wheel racing in 1976 and rapidly progressed through the junior categories.
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 ...
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.
Incredibly, of the 14 races Alain Prost finished in 1988 he would record seven wins and seven second places, yet it wasn't enough to win the championship. His wins total equaled the single season record he himself had equalled in 1984 ( Jim Clark had won 7 races in 1963 ) when he had also lost the world championship to then McLaren teammate ...
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 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". [2] [3]
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.”
The race is one of the most controversial in F1 history, as the culmination of Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna's tumultuous two-year rivalry as teammates at McLaren. The Japanese Grand Prix decided the 1989 Drivers' Championship in Prost's favour, after a collision on lap 47 at the final chicane between him and Senna put them both off the track.