Prost GP finished sixth in the constructors ' championship in its first season, with 21 points.

With Peugeot supplying the engines for Prost GP, Mugen-Honda decided to supply the Jordan team.

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Prost had won the French GP in 1981, 1983, 1988, 1989 and 1990.

In a rain-soaked Monaco GP, he finished in a close 2nd place behind Alain Prost, who's McLaren was suffering from a brake balance problem that Prost reported was getting worse with each lap.

The most successful Formula One driver at Jacarepaguá was Frenchman Alain Prost, who recorded five of his record six Brazilian GP wins at the circuit.

He stayed at the Prost team for the next two seasons and eventually scored his first podium in wet conditions at the 1999 European Grand Prix.

Keke Rosberg scored his first ever podium, and one of Formula One's greatest drivers, Frenchman Alain Prost ( McLaren M29 ) scored a point on his Formula 1 début.

Prost scored 105 points during the season and finished first or second in each race he completed.

Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna in a McLaren MP4 / 5B scored a Grand Slam, winning the race by six seconds over his title rival reinging world champion, French driver Alain Prost driving a Ferrari 641.

Mansell pulled away and scored his first win of the season, Prost was second followed by Senna, Alesi, Patrese, and de Cesaris.

Alain Prost scored his final Formula One victory after team-mate Damon Hill was denied a first win by a tyre problem on the penultimate lap.

As Schumacher also held the fastest lap, this meant he scored the first Grand Chelem of his career, and he was the first driver other than Alain Prost or Ayrton Senna to win the Monaco Grand Prix since 1983.

Senna had scored his third pole of the season, with the number 2 car of Prost again alongside.

Senna made the most of his skill and scored another pole, Prost again playing second fiddle by over a second.

Brazilian Lotus driver Ayrton Senna's fourth place kept him in the championship lead by a single point over Prost and three ahead of Piquet.

Victory in Japan was also Senna's eighth win of the season, which beat the record for total wins in a single season, previously held by Jim Clark and Prost.

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.

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.

Young rookie Alain Prost claimed the final point debuting the new McLaren M30, while in seventh Gilles Villeneuve had given one of Ferrari's few 1980 highlights, running as high as third before his tyres went off.

Laffite took sixth place and the final point from Watson on the last corner of the last lap, while Giacomelli missed taking second from Prost, on failing tires, by a few car lengths.

Senna passed Prost's slowing McLaren before the finish line, but according to the rules, the positions counted are those from the last lap completed by every driver – lap 31, at which point Prost was still leading.

Prost would eventually go on to lose the championship to Niki Lauda by only half a point.

As a result, he took the title by just half a point from team-mate Alain Prost.

Jacques Laffite finished fifth in his Ligier-Renault with Prost gaining a vital World Championship point for finishing sixth.

The leader of the championship prior to the race was British driver Nigel Mansell ; six points behind him in second was Alain Prost, who was looking to defend his title and one point behind Prost was Mansell's teammate at Williams, Nelson Piquet.

Prost won ahead of Piquet, his teammate Stefan Johansson, Gerhard Berger ( who battled for the whole race with handling problems of his Ferrari F1 / 87 ), Boutsen and Mansell, who caught the last point.

The win gave Mansell a one point lead in the championship over French McLaren driver Alain Prost.

Senna's victory over Prost saw the championship points gap expand to 16 points, the largest gap between the two all season to that point.

Senna and Prost continued to squabble over fourth and the major talking point came on lap 37 when Prost attempted to pass Senna going into the first chicane.

At the end of the season, Senna was world champion with 78 points with Prost second with 71 ( he got 73 but had to drop 2 points ), Piquet third with 43 ( he got 44 but had to drop 1 point ), Berger fourth with 43 ( he was behind Piquet because Piquet had more wins ), Mansell fifth with 37, Boutsen sixth with 34, Patrese seventh with 23 and Nannini eighth with 21.

After missing out on the Drivers Championship by just half a point the previous year, Alain Prost would ultimately secure his first of four titles by a 23-point margin.

Estoril became a popular event on the F1 calendar, the setting for many well-known moments including Niki Lauda winning the championship, his third and final, from McLaren team mate Alain Prost by just half a point by finishing second to Prost at the 1984 Portuguese Grand Prix.

Prost discovered karting at the age of 14 during a family holiday.

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

However, although generally quicker than his predecessor Alain Prost in relation to Senna in qualifying ( he often qualified 2nd behind Senna ), he was rarely able to match the brilliant Brazilian's pace during races.

The French enjoyed an advantage over the British in that they included a number of Muslim officers such as Captain Muhammand Ould Ali Raho, Claude Prost, and Laurnet Depui ( the latter two converted to Islam during their time in Arabia ).

BBC commentator James Hunt famously called de Cesaris a " disgrace " for blocking Prost and publicly lambasted him during the commentary for his driving.

Hunt, who as the Champion was in the photo shoot along with the Fangio, Sir Jack Brabham, Stewart, Alan Jones, Niki Lauda, as well as current drivers Senna and Nelson Piquet, claimed during the race commentary that Prost had been beaten down by Senna after losing the championship to him in controversial circumstances and seemed to be " a driver who was under a form of mental collapse ".

It was time for the mid-race stops during which Prost got ahead of Hill and Senna and Schumacher closed up on Brundle.

Alain Prost was leading the race and looked set to win, but a miscommunication during his second pitstop cost him time and he dropped behind Hill and Michael Schumacher.

Prost had troubles during his second stop, and when Hill and Schumacher had made theirs, they were ahead.

It was time for the mid-race stops during which Prost got ahead of Hill and Senna and Schumacher closed up on Brundle.

Prost had troubles during his second stop, and when Hill and Schumacher had made theirs, they were ahead.

' Magic ' ( Senna's nickname during the wet ) shone that day to give him another win despite engine troubles that also befell Prost with Mansell in third saying that problems like that he could certainly use-he finished less than two seconds behind Senna.

Prost had been sacked by Renault after failing to win the 1983 title ( Prost had openly criticised Renault for failing to develop the RE40 during the season, resulting in the loss of both the Drivers ' and Constructors championships ).

Senna gained two more podiums during the season, finishing third at the British Grand Prix behind Niki Lauda's McLaren and Warwick's Renault, while he finished off the season with a third ( after qualifying a then career best 3rd ) in the final round in Portugal behind the dominant McLaren's of race winner Prost and World Champion Lauda.