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 The Official Formula 1 Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Alain Prost was born on February 24, 1955, near Saint Chamond in the Loire region of central France, where his father Andre manufactured kitchen furnishings.
Alain was a busy little boy with a boundless energy that more than made up for any shortcomings he might have in terms of physical height.
Alain Prost, nicknamed 'The Professor' for his cerebral approach to racing, needed all his brainpower and driving skill to take on the formidable Senna.
www.formula1.com /archive/halloffame/driver/36.html   (1036 words)

  
 Prost_Career2
Alain Prost poses with drivers Tomas Enge and Heinz-Harald Frentzen at the Japanese GP, which sadly proved to be the last race the team would compete in.
Alain Prost, pictured leaving court after his team was declared bankrupt, says he will return to F1, but not in France.
Prost Grand Prix was created from the bones of the Ligier team after four times World Champion Alain Prost took over the French organisation in time for the 1997 season.
www.homestead.com /formulakaz/Prost_Career2.html   (412 words)

  
 Alain Prost - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
Alain Marie Pascal Prost, (born February 24, 1955 in Saint-Chamond, Loire, France), simply known as Alain Prost, is a French racing driver.
The rivalry between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna is widely considered one of the most exciting ones between two sportsmen, and both were drivers clearly a class ahead of any other.
Prost was the F1 World Champion in 1985, 1986, 1989, and 1993, and runner-up in 1983, 1984, 1988 and 1990.
www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Alain_Prost   (483 words)

  
 Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Alain Prost - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But for a twist of fate Alain Prost might have become a professional footballer instead of a four-time World Champion.
Prost had enough and left the team in disgust.
Alain Prost is now the owner of his own team, Prost – Grand Prix and is bringing the same amount of care and attention to detail that hallmarked his remarkable racing career.
www.ddavid.com /formula1/prost_bio.htm   (509 words)

  
 Mexican Grand Prix 1990, The most spendid race of the "Professor", Alain Prost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The surprise was the failure of Alain Prost to do any better than 13th during the qualifying.
Alain Prost catched up with his teammate in the 55 th lap and started his pursuit of Senna, 7 seconds ahead.
Alain Prost finally won this iconic race, but this victory and the subsequent ones (a beautifull summer series) didn't allow him to salvage his tittle which went Senna's way after a final famous race at Susuka where the two pilots collided once more.
www.flyandrive.com /Prost2.htm   (513 words)

  
 Prost_Career
Known as the 'Professor' for his racing acumen, Alain Prost ranks as the most sucessful F1 driver ever with a record 51 GP wins, 106 podium finishes to his credit and won four Driver's Championships in 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1993.
Prost made his debut in 1980 for the McLaren team and in his first race in Beunos Aires he finished in sixth in what turned out to be a solid first season with another three points finishes.
After his retirement Prost continued to be involved in F1 whether as a TV commentator or part of a team set-up.
www.homestead.com /formulakaz/Prost_Career.html   (751 words)

  
 8W - Who? - Alain Prost
Alain and his father went to the 1970 event, and Alain was thrilled by what he had witnessed.
Prost took the start and was inching ahead going into the first corner when Senna snapped his car into the side of the Ferrari, taking both cars out on the spot.
Alain was itching to get back into F1, and when Guy Ligier was ready to sell his team, Alain Prost had his dream of an "all-French" Formula One team.
8w.forix.com /prost.html   (4638 words)

  
 Alain Prost
Prost´s ancestors are coming from Armenia, from the same province also the family of famous actor and singer Charles Aznavour has got their roots.
Alain Prost had grown up under very simple circumstances, his father had been a cabinet-maker.
Alain Prost was a Jackie Stewart as a driver.
www.research-racing.de /alain.prost.htm   (805 words)

  
 Alain Prost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alain Marie Pascal Prost OBE, (born February 24, 1955 in Saint-Chamond, France), is a retired French racing driver and 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1993 Formula One World Champion.
Prost is married to Anne-Marie (born 14 February 1955) and has two sons, Nicolas (born 18 October 1981) and Sacha Prost (born 30 May 1990), and a daughter, Victoria.
After Prost came back for 1993, he and Senna continued where they left off, perhaps one of the biggest indications as to how much Prost is hated in Brazil is the fact that he was escorted by Police to the Interlagos circuit for the 1993 Brazilian Grand Prix.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alain_Prost   (4058 words)

  
 Funo!: Alain Prost en foco
El primer diálogo mantenido entre Alain Marie Pascal Prost y Ayrton Senna da Silva fue en la primavera europea de 1984; todo gracias a una gestión de Gerd Kremer (encargado de Mercedes-Benz AG de aquella hora).
Prost asintió, y enseguida Senna tendió su mano para saludarle.
Alain se refería a la particular pericia de Ayrton para con el motor Honda en las postrimerías de la década del '80: "admiro la técnica de acelerador-ametralladora de Senna, la cual permite que la curva de revoluciones del turbo se mantenga en un ratio siempre óptimo".
www.funof1.com.ar /tx/pi198001008_esp_maxi_.htm   (1153 words)

  
 Prost-Scriptum - Alain Prost : Biographie, sa carriere d'hier à aujourd'hui...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Alain est tenace et décide alors de travailler durant ses loisirs dans la petite entreprise de son père en économisant sou par sou sur tous les postes (cinéma, sorties...) pour se payer enfin son châssis de kart.
Alain va rester un an et demi à observer de l'intérieur tous les rouages d'une écurie de Formule 1 et lorsque son apprentissage sera terminé, repartira à l'attaque.
Cette fois les temps sont différents, Alain Prost est fortement sollicité par les nouvelles instances politiques françaises en 1996 pour reprendre le flambeau de cette fameuse "écurie France" qui se fait attendre depuis vingt ans.
www.prost-scriptum.com /alain-prost   (1087 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Motor Sports - French court orders liquidation of Prost F1 team - Monday January 28, 2002 03:31 PM
Prost had hoped to turn it into a fully French outfit with a French staff, a French chassis, a French engine and a French driver.
French sponsors were the last to leave Prost on his own and he said it was what he deplored most of all.
Prost himself recognized that when he was at Ferrari in 1991, before they dispensed with his services: "Ron Dennis is a leader of men, a catalyst of energies, he is completely respected.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /motorsports/news/2002/01/28/prost_f1_ap   (1452 words)

  
 Alain Prost
Alain Marie Pascal Prost (born February 24, 1955) was one of the most successful Formula One drivers of all time.
During his Formula One career, which lasted from 1980 to 1993, he won 51 Grand Prix (a record until Michael Schumacher overtook this total in 2001) and was driver's world champion four times.
From 1997 to 2001 he owned and managed the Prost Grand Prix racing team.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alain_Prost.html   (114 words)

  
 Alain Prost - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Inductee
Alain Prost becomes the first Frenchman to be inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, and at the end of his splendid career, he had virtually re-written the Formula One record book.
Prost won his first title in 1985, driving for McLaren, and repeated in 1986.
When Prost retired at the end of the 1993 season, he spent two years as a TV reporter and did public relations for Renault.
www.motorsportshalloffame.com /halloffame/1999/Alain_Prost_main.htm   (424 words)

  
 Thought Leadership Forum - Speakers Alain Prost
Until Michael Schumacher re-wrote the history books in 2001, Alain Prost held the record for the most Grand Prix victories, with 51, he also claimed 42 fastest laps, 106 podiums and 798.5 points during his illustrious time in Formula One.
After his move to Ferrari, Alain claimed Ferrari's 100th Grand Prix victory in France in 1990 and went on to score 5 victories for the famous Italian firm and end the season as runner-up behind Senna.
Alain Prost has a fascinating personality with a truly inspiring motor racing career behind him; his continuing success and drive make him an enthralling and highly respected speaker around the world.
www.leaders-forum.com /speaker17.php   (291 words)

  
 Alain Prost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
'''Alain Marie Pascal Prost''', born February 24, 1955 in Saint-Chamond, Loire, France, is one of the most successful Formula One drivers of all time.
The rivalry between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna is said by many to be one of the most exciting ones between two drivers clearly a class ahead of any other in their day.
Outside of racing cars, Prost is a road cycling enhusiast, and has helped design bicycle frames for the French framebuilder Cyfac.
alain-prost.kiwiki.homeip.net   (396 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Alain Prost
Originally Prost wanted to be a football player but he became a kart racer in his teens and did well, although he had the reputation of being slightly wild.
Their relationship had become so strained in the course of the year that Prost had decided to move to Ferrari and he led the teamÍs revival in 1990, winning five races and only being beaten to the World Championship when Senna took him off in dubious circumstances at the start of the Japanese GP.
Prost as a team owner was not in the same league as Prost the driver.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-proala.html   (978 words)

  
 F1A&G - Alain Prost
Frenchman Alain Prost was a four-time F1 world champion —; three times in the turbocharged McLaren-Honda of the mid-1980s — but his legacy may forever remain in the shadow of teammates Lauda and Senna.
Prost's scientific, methodical approach to racing set him apart from many of his contemporaries, and led to a series of magnificent duels with his teammate and arch-rival Aryton Senna.
The Prosts have not proven particularly competitive to date, owing in part to the massive development costs and technical challenge of today's F1 specifications, but in that regard Prost shares the back of the current F1 grid with Jaguar Racing (formerly Stewart Grand Prix), the offspring of another famed Formula One World Champion, Jackie Stewart.
www.f1-grandprix.com /prost.html   (257 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > Features > Interview > Alain Prost
Now, at 42, Alain Prost has bought the Ligier team - renamed it Prost Grand Prix - and is planning a new career as a team owner.
Prost has been working hard in recent months to put the deal together and he reckons that he is very different man to the one who retired from F1 at the end of 1993.
Alain's recent experience as an advisor to McLaren and his six years with the team - during which he won three World titles - would suggest that he is likely to base Prost Grand Prix on the way McLaren works.
www.grandprix.com /ft/ft00259.html   (2101 words)

  
 alain prost
Alain Marie Pascal Prost was born on February 24, 1955 in St.
Alain Prost came in 2nd in the French seniors Kating championship and was 14th overall in the World Junior championships all in 1973.
Alain Prost took a year off of racing for the 1992 F1 season.
www.f1cartvideos.com /biographyjanuary1999.html   (516 words)

  
 Alain Prost - WikiF1, l'encyclopédie coopérative du sport automobile et de la Formule 1
Prost prend sa revanche en 1989, dans une ambiance de souffre.
Prost a signé un contrat de 2 ans, mais la volonté non dissimulée de son employeur d'attirer Senna à ses côtés, ce qu'il perçoit comme une forme de désaveu, le blesse.
Prost monte sur le podium une dernière fois à Adelaïde, pour son ultime course.
www.wikif1.org /Alain_Prost   (2120 words)

  
 Alain Prost says [Archive] - Champ Car Fanatics Community
Prost began his career in an era when - amongst other things - drivers still had to change gear manually, using the heel-and-toe technique to ensure smooth changes, but he blames the introduction of automatic gear shifts, traction / launch control and other driver aids as being partly to blame for the public switching off.
Although the Prost F1 outfit folded before the 2002 season due to a lack of finance, the Frenchman hinted in the interview that his future might be as a team owner in America [see seperate story].
Prost never appeared to probe the ragged edge because he rarely was not in control.
www.champcarfanatics.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-2412.html   (1356 words)

  
 Alain Prost - Speakers Biography - Celebrity Speakers Limited
After his move to Ferrari, Alain claimed Ferrari's 100th Grand Prix victory in France in 1990 and went on to score 5 victories for the famous Italian marque and end the season as runner-up behind Senna.
Alain then announced his retirement from the sport after contesting the 1993 Grand Prix season.
Alain is a facinating personality with a truly inspiring motor racing career behind him, his continuing success and drive make him an enthralling and highly sought-after speaker around the world.
www.speakers.co.uk /csaWeb/speaker,ALAPRO   (283 words)

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