A year later at the same venue they collided again, but this time Prost, driving for Ferrari, lost out.

In the next round in Europe, Hill again finished second behind Senna and ahead of a lapped Prost.

In San Marino, Hill again impressed by taking the lead at the start, though he was passed by Prost and Senna and ultimately retired with brake failure.

As the reigning champion, this time Prost, was again no longer racing, Hill retained his number ' 0 '.

Despite his friendship and good past working relationship with Prost at McLaren, Barnard opted to leave the Maranello based team and join Benetton, seeking a new challenge, and relishing working again for a team based in England where he wouldn't be subject to the Italian press, who are famously quick to jump on any faults with their beloved Ferrari Grand Prix cars.

Among the leaders, Alboreto began inching closer to Prost again, and Watson continued to close on both of them.

Prost assumed the lead again, now from team mate Lauda who disposed of Arnoux, but had Ayrton Senna, who had also passed the Ferrari, quickly closing in.

After a very poor start that dropped him to 14th, Alain Prost climbed 8 places in 10 laps, went down the field again to 9th, and climbed another 5 places, breaking the lap record 3 times in the process.

Prost then went ahead again and led for the rest of the race, never looking threatened as he preserved his tyres to only require two stops, while his rivals Senna and Piquet had three.

Prost managed to jump Senna at the start but as he changed from 2nd to 3rd on the run to the Rettifilo his engine began to misfire and would not run properly again.

Mansell once again closed on Prost and the two battled it out until Mansell finally managed to take advantage of traffic, again, and took the lead on Lap 54 by this time outbraking Prost around the outside at the hairpin.

Both McLarens had throttle problems, Andretti slowing down in front of Schumacher on lap 16 and making Schumacher spin again, dropping down to 14th, right behind the recovering Prost.

The Williams cars had once again dominated qualifying, locking out the front row with Prost on pole and Hill alongside him.

With Prost not defending his title, the Williams cars would once again bear numbers 0 and 2 for 1994.

Both McLarens had throttle problems, Andretti slowing down in front of Schumacher on lap 16 and making Schumacher spin again, dropping down to 14th, right behind the recovering Prost.

With Prost not defending his title, the Williams cars would once again bear numbers 0 and 2 for 1994.

Meanwhile, Mansell again began to close in on Prost and as the two wound through traffic on lap 54, Mansell made a superb move on the outside of the Adelaide hairpin to lead and then slowly pulled away.

Soon Prost sneaked by Berger and chased off after Mansell who had gearbox issues again.

Prost won again from Boutsen, Senna, Bernard, Piquet and Aguri Suzuki.

Once again, Senna took the lead while Boutsen sliced into second and Prost dropped back to fifth.

After Belgium came Italy and Senna took pole again with Prost second, Berger third, Mansell fourth, Alesi fifth and Boutsen sixth.

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

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.

In 1997, Prost took over the French Ligier team, running it as Prost Grand Prix until it went bankrupt in 2002.

Although short, standing at 1. 67m ( 5 ft 6 in ) Prost was an active, athletic child, who enthusiastically took part in diverse sports, including wrestling, roller skating and football.

Prost also took part in the Race of Champions in 2010, a race organised for legends of motor sport to compete in equal machinery.

At the Brazilian Grand Prix, Hill qualified and spent the early stages of the race running second behind Prost, and then took the lead when Prost crashed out, but was relegated back to second by another triple world champion, Ayrton Senna.

He took pole at the French Grand Prix and closely followed Prost, team orders preventing him from seriously challenging for the win.

After strong podiums in Monaco and Canada, Hill took his first career pole in France, finishing second only to Prost.

The drivers took the first one-two in Renault's history in Formula One, Arnoux finishing ahead of Prost.

Then, Lauda took the title, and Prost took it the next two years running.

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.

The Tyrrell began to match Arnoux's times, however, and then to close on him, as Prost took back the lead on lap 15.

Alain Prost took the first of his four victories at the circuit.

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

Patrese's gearbox dropped oil onto the track which took off Niki Lauda and nearly took off Teo Fabi and race leader Michele Alboreto ; Alboreto's off handed the lead to Alain Prost.

His team mate Alain Prost took the lead in the championship by finishing second, only 0. 232 seconds behind Lauda.

Piquet made a late charge to close the gap to 4. 2 seconds but Prost took victory to win his second of four titles.

Fearing the same happening to the second car, Williams called Piquet to the pits and Prost took the lead.

Prost took the final podium place, with Senna fourth ahead of Teo Fabi's Benetton B187 in fifth.

Mansell took victory by 22 seconds over Frenchman Alain Prost driving a McLaren MP4 / 3.

By lap 54 Prost had finally got past Berger on the run to the first corner and took second place, some 50 seconds behind Senna.

Ayrton Senna took pole from Alain Prost with a lap time that was almost a second faster than Nigel Mansell's 1987 time despite the restriction in turbo boost from 4. 0 Bar to 2. 5 bar for 1988 ( a drop of approximately ).