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 ).

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.

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

The battle became one for the lead on lap 63 when Rosberg suffered a right rear tyre failure and retired from the race ( Rosberg later revealed that he would never have won the race anyway unless Prost failed to finish or had sufficient problem not to be able to challenge, as he had promised Prost and the team that he would give best to his team mate to help his bid to win back-to-back championships ).

By winning, Alain Prost became the first and so far only driver to ever win the AGP in both non-championship and World Championship form, having won the non-championship 1982 Australian Grand Prix run for Formula Pacific cars at the Calder Park Raceway in Melbourne.

The race then became a close fight between the two Williams drivers, as Senna and Prost were no match for them.

In winning Prost became only the second multiple-winner in Mexican Grand Prix history, joining British driver Jim Clark.

Soon Berger passed Moreno for fifth and this became fourth when Prost spun, dropping two places.

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.

Senna had won his third world championship but the Brazilian put a damper on the celebrations in the post-race interview by making scathing comments about outgoing FISA president Jean-Marie Balestre and admitting that he intentionally rammed Alain Prost off the track the year before at Suzuka, leading to much resentment and criticism of Senna from the F1 community.

With the matter hanging in the air, Senna went on record saying it was a plot and conspiracy against him by FIA and FISA president Jean Marie Balestre who he said favored Alain Prost.

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.

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

From 1987 until 2001 Prost held the record for most Grand Prix victories.

Senna joined Prost at McLaren in 1988 and the two had a series of controversial clashes, including a collision at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix that gave Prost his third Drivers ' Championship.

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

Olivier Panis driving for the Prost Grand Prix team at the 1998 Canadian Grand Prix

On 13 February 1997, Prost bought the Ligier team from Flavio Briatore and renamed it " Prost Grand Prix ".

For the team's first season, Prost kept one of Ligier's 1996 drivers, Olivier Panis, who had won the Monaco Grand Prix the previous year ; Japanese driver Shinji Nakano was signed to partner Panis.

Prost was the first such driver to take on this role, at the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix.

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.

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.

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 ).

During the 1989 Grand Prix, Senna tried to overtake Prost to keep his Championship hopes alive, only for Prost to shut the door as he had stated before the race, saying he would not be giving up the position simply for McLaren not to be embarrassed by a double retirement.

At the 1987 Belgian Grand Prix, at Spa, Belgium, de Cesaris placed third behind Alain Prost and Stefan Johansson, his first points in nearly two years.

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.

Lauda won five races, while Prost was able to win seven Grands Prix.

He followed it with two more at the Belgian, taking the lead after pitstop problem for Prost, and at the Italian Grands Prix where Prost's engine failed towards the end.

Both the 1989 Championship won by Prost and the 1990 Championship won by Senna were decided by collisions between them at those years ' Japanese Grands Prix.

The French period Ville Nouvelle ( New Town ) of Casablanca was designed by the French architect Henri Prost, and was a model of a new town at that time.

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

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

With a competitive car, Prost won the 1993 championship and retired from driving at the end of the year.

Skilled at setting up his car for race conditions, Prost would often conserve his brakes and tyres early on in a race, leaving them fresher for a challenge at the end.

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 and John Barnard, formerly chief designer at McLaren, came close to founding a team in 1990 ; but a lack of sponsorship meant that this was not possible, so Prost moved to Ferrari.

After falling out with the Italian team at the end of 1991, Prost found himself without a drive for 1992 ; after the failure of extensive negotiations with Guy Ligier about buying his Ligier team, Prost decided to join Williams for 1993.

But the money ran out at the start of the 2002 season and Prost was out of business, leaving debts of around $ 30 million.

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.

His championship win came in Estoril, when he had to start in eleventh place on the grid, while Prost qualified on the front row.

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.

Alboreto got the jump at the start and led early from Warwick and de Angelis, with the McLarens of Niki Lauda and Prost ( who had made a bad start after bogging down at the green light with too few revs and was 10th at the end of the first lap ) begining to show the superior race speed which would become the story of the season.

Pole-sitter Prost led the race from the start, while first corner contact between Ferrari's René Arnoux and the Renault of Derek Warwick pitched the Englishman's car into the fence on the outside of St.

At the start, Keke Rosberg and Ayrton Senna got to the Verriere Bends in their respective grid positions, followed by Nelson Piquet, who made an excellent start from 5th, Michele Alboreto, Elio de Angelis, Niki Lauda, Gerhard Berger and Alain Prost who made a poor start from 6th place.

After intentionally dropping to 6th in order to save fuel, Alain Prost stormed through the field, passed 5 leading cars ( Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Andrea De Cesaris, Keke Rosberg and Ayrton Senna ) and battled with Senna ( who made an excellent start from fourth on the grid, had been leading almost every lap since lap 1, but eventually retired with fuel problems ) for much of the second half of the race.

The race was re-started after one lap ( with Niki Lauda having made a great start from 3rd on the grid to lead Prost as the race was stopped ).

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.

Jones ' Lola retired on lap 20 with a failed electrics following a typically firey drive through to the top 10 after stalling at the start, while Prost retired with engine failure on lap 26.

Following problems at the start of the parade lap, pole position man Teo Fabi was forced to start from the back of the grid and Alain Prost, alongside him on the front row, had to start from the pit lane in the spare car.

Prost was disqualified for changing cars after the start of the parade lap, but his engine blew a lap after he was flagged anyway.

At the start Piquet was fastest, taking the lead from Senna, while Mansell made a bad start ; the Benetton B187s of Thierry Boutsen and Teo Fabi outdragged Mansell and Alain Prost.

At the start, Prost was the quickest and got the lead, only to be passed by Piquet at the second corner ; Mansell soon followed his teammate.

At the second start, Alain Prost led from the first lap, with Mansell in 2nd place.

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 ).