Alain Prost

Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (born 24 February 1955) is a French former racing driver. A four-time Formula One Drivers' Champion, only Sebastian Vettel (four championships), Juan Manuel Fangio (five championships), and Michael Schumacher (seven championships) have equalled or surpassed his number of titles. From 1987 until 2001 Prost held the record for most Grand Prix victories. Schumacher surpassed Prost's total of 51 victories at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix. In 1999, Prost received the World Sports Awards of the Century in the motor sport category.

Prost discovered karting at the age of 14 during a family holiday. He progressed through motor sport's junior ranks, winning the French and European Formula Three championships, before joining the McLaren Formula One team in 1980 at the age of 24. He finished in the points on his Formula One début at the in San Martin Autodrome in Buenos Aires, Argentina (where he took his first podium a year later) and took his first race victory at his home Grand Prix in France a year later, driving for the factory Renault team.

Prost (disambiguation)

Prost most commonly refers to Alain Prost (born 1955), former French Formula One driver and four times world champion.

Prost may also refer to:

  • Nicolas Prost (born 1981), French racing driver, son of Alain Prost
  • Prost Grand Prix, the Formula One racing team owned by Alain Prost from 1997 to 2002
  • Sharon Prost (born 1951), American federal judge
  • See also

  • Cheers (Prost is an honorary toast in German)
  • All pages with titles containing Prost
  • Proust (disambiguation)
  • Prost Grand Prix

    Prost Grand Prix was a Formula One racing team owned and managed by former world champion Alain Prost. The team participated in five seasons from 1997 to 2001.

    History

    Purchase of Ligier

    Alain Prost completed the purchase of the Ligier team in early 1997, and immediately changed the name to Prost. An exclusive contract for Peugeot engines was announced for 1998, but the team continued with Ligier's planned Mugen-Honda engines for 1997. As there was no time before the season started to design and build a new car, the team simply used the Ligier JS45 designed by Loïc Bigois and renamed it the Prost JS45. Podium finishes in Brazil (third) and Spain (second) for Olivier Panis promised much, but the Frenchman crashed heavily at high speed in Canada, breaking both his legs.

    With its lead driver forced to miss much of the season, Prost struggled with novices Jarno Trulli and Shinji Nakano until Panis's return at the Luxembourg Grand Prix. There were glimpses, a commanding drive by Trulli in Austria where he led for much of the race before his engine expired, and a run by Trulli again to fourth at Germany showed potential, and a dogged points finish for Panis on his return in Luxembourg meant that Prost wasted no time in signing the pair up for a further season.

    Podcasts:

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    Juxtaposed

    by: Burst

    To what do you not drive
    Mortal hearts
    Accursed hunger for gold?
    Cheaply bought, but deadly sold
    With new light they shine on through
    On fields of shredded goals
    Reap crop of clinging hope
    Harvest our brave new world
    Ancient woe, be gone
    Foul illusions of better life
    Compared to what, I ask
    Does this truth of life coerce?
    Juxtaposed they are not




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    Top 5 iconic moments in Japanese Grand Prix history: From Lewis Hamilton's dominance to Alain Prost vs Ayrton Senna clash

    The Times of India 29 Mar 2025
    Hamilton's win in 2014 and dominating Suzuka between 2017 and 2018 are all proof of his legacy in Suzuka standing unrivaled, as his five wins underlined his greatness at one of F1's most difficult circuits.Ayrton Senna vs Alain Prost.
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    European Space Agency 28 Mar 2025
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    Hill slams Verstappen: 'Lauda drove with his mind, not his fists'

    GP Blog 18 Mar 2025
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    French F1 Icon Alain Prost Slams Neflix For ‘Fictionalised’ Depiction Of Rivarly With Ayrton Senna

    News18 12 Mar 2025
    The 70-year-old French driver was not happy with how his relationship with Senna was portrayed and hit out at the series, claiming the depiction of his rivalry with late Brazilian legend Ayrton Senna had been fictionalised ... .
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    Alain Prost hits out at ‘complete bulls---’ new Ayrton Senna biopic

    AOL 11 Mar 2025
    Alain Prost has described a new Netflix-produced miniseries about the life of Ayrton Senna as “complete bulls---” and said he may quit social media because of the abuse he still receives from fans of the Brazilian icon ... Senna 🆚 Prost.
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    Alain Prost hits out at ‘complete bulls---’ new Ayrton Senna film

    Yahoo Daily News 10 Mar 2025
    Prost, 70, won the Formula One world championship four times in a brilliant driving career ... Prost and Senna were team-mates at McLaren in 1988 and 1989 and had a fraught relationship.
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