Piquet inherited the win after engine failure claimed his team mate, Briton Nigel Mansell, and reigning champion, Frenchman Alain Prost ( McLaren MP4 / 3 ).

Meanwhile, Prost pitted for tyres and rejoined 6th, while Berger only inherited 3rd briefly before he retired with gearbox problems, leaving Senna and Mansell on their own.

Meanwhile, Prost inherited the lead when Senna pitted for tyres.

Meanwhile, Prost inherited the lead when Senna pitted for tires.

Peugeot's final year as Prost's engine supplier in 2000 saw some optimism, Prost hiring his 1991 Ferrari team mate Jean Alesi to drive the lead car and German Nick Heidfeld, who had won the 1999 Formula 3000 championship, to partner him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prost passed Villeneuve on lap three, but could not get close enough to challenge Jones for the lead.

With 15 laps still to go, but a 40-second lead over Prost, Jones began pacing himself to the finish.

In that time, he had built up a sufficient to lead to rejoin the race still in 1st, albeit now only a few seconds ahead of Prost.

Prost, meanwhile, looked serene with his half-minute lead only to suffer a mechanical failure just 5 laps from the end.

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

Niki Lauda's McLaren retired on lap 54, while Alboreto had eliminated the gap to Prost, and gotten by him to take his first lead in a Grand Prix.

Less than three seconds behind Prost, and the last car on the lead lap, was Rosberg, who therefore won the final title, in fifth place.

After Passing Warwick for the lead, Prost, who was in the pits for a tyre change when Lauda coasted in to retire, lost the lead back to the Englishman when he made his second stop for tyres.

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.

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.

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 ).

With his 20th career victory, Prost moved into a share of the lead in the World Drivers ' Championship with Alboreto on 50 points.

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

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 ).

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

Piquet would make a late charge to close the gap but ran out of laps with which to challenge for the lead and Prost claimed both the race and the World Championship.

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

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

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

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

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.

Prost was beached and got out of his car promptly, knowing he had won the championship whilst Senna got a push from the marshals.

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.

Despite improving form from Ferrari, soon after Alain Prost announced his intention to leave McLaren at the end of the season, Berger decided to sign for McLaren who, with their Honda V10 engines, were the best and fastest team in Grand Prix racing.

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.

* In auto racing, 27 and 28 were Ferrari Formula one numbers from 1981 to 1995 except in 1990 when reigning WC Alain Prost had the right to use # 1 and drove for the team, Nigel Mansell used # 2.

Marlboro-sponsored McLarens dominated F1 for much of the 1980s and early 1990s, with Niki Lauda, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna between them winning the drivers ' championship all but one year from to.

He was a regular in Formula One from 1997 to 2011, driving for Minardi, Prost, Jordan, Renault, Toyota and Lotus Racing.

With the McLarens of Prost and Niki Lauda dominating 1984, Arnoux had a less successful second season at Ferrari, only finishing 6th with 27 points, with his new teammate Michele Alboreto progressively taking the initiative and team leadership from him.

Some famous Formula One drivers have admitted that their passion for automobile racing originated from reading the Michel Vaillant comics series, among them four-time Formula One champion Alain Prost.

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.

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.

Nelson Piquet's Brabham led into the first corner from pole position, while Renault's Alain Prost passed Piquet's team mate Riccardo Patrese for second.

The Brabham and Renault appeared evenly matched after the stop, with the gap from Patrese to Prost remaining relatively stable.

At the green light for the race on Saturday, Prost led from the pole, followed by teammate Arnoux.

For the first ten laps, the Renaults steadily pulled away from Alboreto, with Arnoux now leading Prost.