During the 1980s and early 1990s, Prost formed a fierce rivalry with mainly Ayrton Senna, but also Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell.

Prost also has a daughter, Victoria

However Prost has also stated that he has no intention of racing at the famous Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar race held annually near Le Mans, France due to concerns about the skill and experience of other drivers along the nature of the multiple class racing that occurs at Le Mans, a factor that was supported by Scotsman and two time LeMans winner Allan McNish's horror crash in the Audi R18 in the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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.

The company has also been involved in providing engines to Formula One teams, notably to McLaren in 1994, to Jordan for the 1995, 1996 and 1997 seasons, and to Prost for the 1998, 1999 and 2000 seasons.

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 ).

The departure of Alesi and Berger from Ferrari to Benetton also spelt the end of the number 27 and 28 era for Ferrari that stretched back to 1981 with Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi only interrupted by the signing of 1989 world champion Alain Prost for the 1990 season.

At the end of 1999, Button had his McLaren test prize at Silverstone, and also tested for the Prost team.

In 1998 B3 Technologies began working for the Arrows Formula One team, but the deal soon descended into dispute when the Prost team also subcontracted the R & D outfit.

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.

Neither started the race, with Prost also missing the following race, and Surer the next three races.

Once it started to rain and while Patrese was pushing hard Prost was now storming around the track, trying to finish the race before it started to rain ; and by lap 74, Prost pushed too hard and crashed into the Armco barriers coming out of the Chicane du Port ( also known as the Dog Leg ).

In four more laps, Watson had also caught and passed him, but he was having the same problem as Prost, and so could make no progress on Alboreto.

Cheever was also able to overtake the ailing Prost for third, nine laps from the end.

Prost fought his way up to third place, but he also retired on lap 35 with turbo failure.

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.

On lap 29, Prost waved to the stewards of the race to indicate that he felt the race should be stopped ( he was also suffering from a major brake imbalance as his McLaren's carbon brakes were locking due to not generating enough heat in the conditions ).

The McLaren of Ayrton Senna led from the start, whilst his teammate Alain Prost had his engine stall coming to take his place on the grid ( Prost later reported that the engine had also stalled earlier on the parade lap ).

Patrese also made an excellent start climbing from 6th to 3rd while Prost was slow away and was only 9th at the end of the first lap.

It was also generally thought that Senna had used too much fuel in the first half of the race in his bid to keep in front of Prost and that was why the Ferraris were catching him rapidly at the end with Berger only 5 seconds behind when Senna and Schlesser collided.

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.

Berger also beat Prost by taking 4th despite his penalty.

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.

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 ).