* 1955 – Alain Prost, French race car driver

As of the 2012 Formula One season Schumacher is the only driver left competing in Formula 1 to have raced against Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, whose record of total career wins he beat with his 52nd win at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix.

This began the team's most successful era: with Porsche and Honda engines, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna took between them seven drivers ' championships and McLaren six constructors ' championships.

Alain Prost, pictured here at the 1985 German Grand Prix, won three drivers ' championships with McLaren.

* Alain Prost

** Alain Prost, French race car driver

Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d ' honneur ( born 24 February 1955 in Lorette, Loire ) is a French racing driver.

Alain Prost was born near the town of Saint-Chamond, close to the city of Saint-Etienne in the département of Loire, France, to André Prost and Marie-Rose Karatchian, born in France of Armenian descent.

With Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell all desperately trying to sign for Williams, Patrese's position looked to be under threat and he signed for Benetton before the end of the year.

The drivers, with the exception of Teo Fabi, barricaded themselves into a banqueting suite at Sunnyside Park Hotel until they had won the day. Lauda won a third world championship in 1984 by half a point over teammate Alain Prost, due to only half points being awarded for the shortened 1984 Monaco Grand Prix.

As well as the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans race for automobiles there is also a 24 hours event for karts which takes place at the kart circuit Alain Prost at Le Mans, France.

All current ( with the exception of Russian driver Vitaly Petrov ) and many former Formula One drivers grew up racing karts, most prominent among them, World Champions Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel.

Hill equalled the record for starting all 16 races of the season from the front row, matching Ayrton Senna in and Alain Prost in.

Hill became the fourth driver in nine years to win the World Drivers ' Championship and not drive for Williams the following season following in the footsteps of Nelson Piquet ( WDC-drove for Lotus ), Nigel Mansell ( WDC-1993 competed in the US based Champ Car World Series instead of F1 ) and Alain Prost ( 1993 WDC-Retired ).

In 1988, he joined Frenchman Alain Prost at McLaren-Honda.

Senna courted controversy throughout his career, particularly during his turbulent rivalry with Alain Prost.

* Formula One Championship – Alain Prost of France

The McLaren team dominated all three years, with Alain Prost winning in 1989 and Ayrton Senna in 1990 and 1991.

He ran as high as second and was running third, having passed the Williams of Damon Hill and Alain Prost, before encountering a fuel pressure problem.

They were followed over the years by Alain Prost, Pascal Fabre, Olivier Grouillard, Paul Belmondo, Éric Bernard, Érik Comas and Olivier Panis, all of whom became Formula One drivers.

Roberto Moreno dominated this era winning three of the four races, ceding only the 1982 race to Alain Prost.

As of November 2011 three times World Drivers ' Champion Alain Prost from France remains the only driver to win the AGP in both World Championship and domestic formats winning the Australian Drivers ' Championship 1982 race before winning in Adelaide in 1986 and 1988.

Twelve British drivers have won the British Grand Prix, with Englishman Stirling Moss being the first and Scotsman Jim Clark winning 5 times, the most of any driver other than French driver Alain Prost, who also won the British Grand Prix 5 times ( all of them at Silverstone ).

Suzuka will always be chiefly remembered, however, for the legendary feud between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna.

Fabien Alain Barthez ( ; born 28 June 1971 in Lavelanet ) is a former French footballer goalkeeper who won honours with Manchester United and the French national team, with whom he won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000 and reached the final of the 2006 World Cup.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

In 1963 Il Gattopardo was made into a film, directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, and which won the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

French driver Alain Prost won the race 6 times at 3 different circuits ; however German driver Michael Schumacher has won 8 times-the most anybody has ever won any Grand Prix.

World Champion Michael Schumacher, who made his debut at Spa in 1991 and won his first F1 race there in 1992, won his 52nd Grand Prix at Spa in 2001, surpassing Alain Prost's all-time record of 51 wins.

The most successful players are Alain Roche and Paul Le Guen with nine major trophies won.

In 21 October 1984, Portugal returned to the F1 calendar, ending the season, where Alain Prost won the race but failed to win the Championship by half a point.

Michael Schumacher won the race 7 times and Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost both won it 3 times.

The song was a composition of Jacques Cardona and Alain Garciac entitled Croire ( Trust ) which reached a respectable fourth place ( while Celine Dion won the contest representing Switzerland ).

The most successful players are Dominique Bathenay, Alain Roche, and Marceau Sommerlynck who all won five titles.

The most ever is by the Frenchman Alain Prost, who has won it 6 times ( including 5 times at Jacarepaguá ).

Constructors ' and drivers ' world championships were won with Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Mika Häkkinen and Lewis Hamilton.

Bourdais was part of the winning Sologne Karting team which won the 1996 24 hour Le Mans kart race at the Circuit Alain Prost on a Merlin chassis with Atomic motors.

* Alain Boghossian, French Footballer, part of the French national side that won the FIFA World Cup 1998

After re-engineering the Ford Mondeo, the team won the BTCC title in 2000 with Alain Menu.

At Estoril for the Portuguese Grand Prix Berger dominated the race from pole position before spinning in the latter stages to finish second after pressure from Alain Prost.

On 19 June 2007 he was renamed Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Solidarity in Fillon's second government after the first one handed in its resignation the day before for rehandling after government no. 2 Alain Juppé, Minister of Ecology and Development and only ' Ministre d ' État ' ( Senior Minister ), resigned after having lost in the legislative race to deputy of Bordeaux.

During the mid-1980s ' Turbo era ' of Formula One where fuel was restricted to either 220 ( 1984-85 ), 195 ( 1986-87 ) or 150 ( 1988 ) litres for races for the turbo powered cars, Hockenheim also saw drivers, including World Champion Alain Prost, at times fail to finish due to simply running out of fuel near the end of the race.

Some governments tried to ban their drivers from going, and the Ligier and Renault teams did boycott the race in line with the French government's ban on sporting events in South Africa ; however French drivers Alain Prost, who had wrapped up the 1985 championship in the previous race, and Philippe Steriff, both driving for British teams, did take part.

At the 1985 San Marino Grand Prix, Boutsen finished third, behind Alain Prost and Elio de Angelis, but after the race, Prost and de Angelis were disqualified because their cars were 2 kg underweight, meaning that Boutsen won for the first time in his Formula One career.

Alain Prost ( McLaren M29 ) and Riccardo Patrese ( Arrows A3 ) battled for much of the second half of the race for fifth place, with Prost having the advantage through the corners while Patrese was quicker in the straights.

The race however is remembered for a memorable and spectacular crash at the start of the race when Derek Daly collided with Bruno Giacomelli's Alfa Romeo 179, which sent Daly's Tyrrell 010 flying over Giacomelli and landing between teammate Jean-Pierre Jarier and Alain Prost's McLaren M29.

The race was the first of an eventual 51 Grand Prix wins for Renault driver Alain Prost.

The race was notable for a memorable battle between Alain Prost and Alan Jones.

In the race on Saturday, Jones jumped off the line into the lead, but Reutemann was quickly passed by Gilles Villeneuve, Alain Prost and Bruno Giacomelli, and finished the first lap in fifth.

Despite Alain Prost suffering a puncture while leading, he was able to recover to win the race.

Despite the Renaults of René Arnoux and Alain Prost qualifying 1-2, their cars failed in the race leaving Ferrari occupying the top two positions with Gilles Villeneuve leading Didier Pironi.

By around lap 67, the race became a 2-horse sprint between Alain Prost and Riccardo Patrese.