Alain Prost - Complete Formula One results, Further reading

Motor-racing driver and team owner, born in St Chamond, SW France. He was the first Frenchman to win the world title. He won in 1985–6 (both for McLaren–Porsche), was runner-up in 1983–4 and 1988, and won again in 1989 (for Maclaren–Honda) and 1993, when he announced his retirement. During his Formula 1 career he won 51races from 199 starts, and his 798·5 championship points is a world record. He returned to Formula 1 as a team owner with Team Prost (1997 to 2001) but was less successful.

In 1997 Prost took over the French Ligier team, running it as Prost Grand Prix until it went bankrupt in 2001.

1982

1982 was another reasonably successful season for Prost, winning the first two Grand Prix in South Africa and Brazil, but those would be the only two victories for Prost during the season. Prost won seven and outscored his new teammate Ayrton Senna by 11 points, despite Senna winning one more race than Prost. At the restart, it was Prost this time that got away the better of the two but Senna forced his way past Prost in the first corner, breaking the pair's agreement at the start of the race, leaving the Frenchman furious with Senna. At the start of the race, Prost got the better start of the two, but whilst braking for the first corner,Senna and Prost collided forcing them both to retire and leaving Senna as champion.

Senna had also felt the same when Prost had retired at the end of 1993, when he admitted to a close friend that he had realised how much of his motivation had come from fighting with Alain Prost.

Prost Grand Prix

During 1989, Prost had an idea to start his own team, as his relationship with his McLaren teammate, Ayrton Senna, had turned sour. Prost and his race engineer, John Barnard, came close to founding a team in 1990 but a lack of sponsorship meant that this was not possible, so Prost moved to Ferrari.

Prost became the president of Prost Grand Prix at the start of 1998.

Peugeot's final year of Prost's engine supplier in 2000 would see some optimism, Prost hiring his 1991 Ferrari team mate Jean Alesi to drive the lead car and he hired German Nick Heidfeld, who had won the Formula 3000 championship the previous year.

After Prost Grand Prix

During 2002, Prost spent time with his family and competed in eight bicycle races, finishing third in the Granite - Mont Lozère.

Complete Formula One results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Team	WDC	Points
1980	McLaren	ARG 6	BRA 5	RSA DNS	USW DNP	BEL Ret	MON Ret	FRA Ret	GBR 6	GER 11	AUT 7	DUT 6	ITA 7	CAN Ret	USA DNS			McLaren	16th	5
1981	Renault	USW Ret	BRA Ret	ARG 3	SMR Ret	BEL Ret	MON Ret	ESP Ret	FRA 1	GBR Ret	GER 2	AUT Ret	DUT 1	ITA 1	CAN Ret	LVG 2		Renault	5th	43
1982	Renault	RSA 1	BRA 1	USW Ret	SMR Ret	BEL Ret	MON 7	USE NC	CAN Ret	DUT Ret	GBR 6	FRA 2	GER Ret	AUT 8	SUI 2	ITA Ret	LVG 4	Renault	4th	34
1983	Renault	BRA 7	USW 11	FRA 1	SMR 2	MON 3	BEL 1	USA 8	CAN 5	GBR 1	GER 4	AUT 1	DUT Ret	ITA Ret	EUR 2	RSA Ret		Renault	2nd	57
1984	McLaren	BRA 1	RSA 2	BEL Ret	SMR 1	FRA 7	MON 1	CAN 3	USE 4	USA Ret	GBR Ret	GER 1	AUT Ret	DUT 1	ITA Ret	EUR 1	POR 1	McLaren	2nd	71.5
1985	McLaren	BRA 1	POR Ret	SMR DSQ	MON 1	CAN 3	USA Ret	FRA 3	GBR 1	GER 2	AUT 1	DUT 2	ITA 1	BEL 3	EUR 4	RSA 3	AUS Ret	McLaren	1st	73
1986	McLaren	BRA Ret	ESP 3	SMR 1	MON 1	BEL 6	CAN 2	USA 3	FRA 2	GBR 3	GER 6	HUN Ret	AUT 1	ITA DSQ	POR 2	MEX 2	AUS 1	McLaren	1st	72
1987	McLaren	BRA 1	SMR Ret	BEL 1	MON 9	USA 3	FRA 3	GBR Ret	GER 7	HUN 3	AUT 6	ITA 15	POR 1	ESP 2	MEX Ret	JPN 7	AUS Ret	McLaren	4th	46
1988	McLaren	BRA 1	SMR 2	MON 1	MEX 1	CAN 2	USA 2	FRA 1	GBR Ret	GER 2	HUN 2	BEL 2	ITA Ret	POR 1	ESP 1	JPN 2	AUS 1	McLaren	2nd	87 (105)
1989	McLaren	BRA 2	SMR 2	MON 2	MEX 5	USA 1	CAN Ret	FRA 1	GBR 1	GER 2	HUN 4	BEL 2	ITA 1	POR 2	ESP 3	JPN Ret	AUS Ret	McLaren	1st	76
1990	Ferrari	USA Ret	BRA 1	SMR 4	MON Ret	CAN 5	MEX 1	FRA 1	GBR 1	GER 4	HUN Ret	BEL 2	ITA 2	POR 3	ESP 1	JPN Ret	AUS 3	Ferrari	2nd	71 (73)
1991	Ferrari	USA 2	BRA 4	SMR Ret	MON 5	CAN Ret	MEX Ret	FRA 2	GBR 3	GER Ret	HUN Ret	BEL Ret	ITA 3	POR Ret	ESP 2	JPN 4	AUS DNP	Ferrari	5th	34
1993	Williams	RSA 1	BRA Ret	EUR 3	SMR 1	ESP 1	MON 4	CAN 1	FRA 1	GBR 1	GER 1	HUN 12	BEL 3	ITA 12	POR 2	JPN 2	AUS 2	Williams	1st	99

Preceded by: Niki Lauda	Formula One World Champion 1985-1986	Succeeded by: Nelson Piquet
Preceded by: Ayrton Senna	Formula One World Champion 1989	Succeeded by: Ayrton Senna
Preceded by: Nigel Mansell	Formula One World Champion 1993	Succeeded by: Michael Schumacher

Champions (1970-1989)* Champions (1990-)*

Further reading

Alan Henry, Alain Prost (Champion Series) ISBN 0946132305 Pierre Menard, Alain Prost: The Science of Racing (Formula 1 Legends S.) ISBN 2847070621