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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.
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Prost and then
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.
Prost won in 1989, and then left for Ferrari after clashing with Senna.
The Tyrrell began to match Arnoux's times, however, and then to close on him, as Prost took back the lead on lap 15.
Lauda and Prost both passed de Angelis with some difficulty and they then caught and fought with Rosberg for a long period of time.
Rosberg then went into the pits for new rubber and he stormed after Prost and Piquet.
The title was then between Piquet and Prost with the Frenchman needing to finish ahead of the Brazilian if he wanted to successfully defend his title.
Prost got the second place overtaking Senna on lap 6 ; the Brazilian was then engaged in a battle with the two Ferraris, and got back second when Prost retired with an alternator failure on lap 15.
The race then became a close fight between the two Williams drivers, as Senna and Prost were no match for them.
Senna faded to finish fifth, but the battle for second continued between Boutsen and Piquet-Boutsen went out avoiding Piquet who was rejoining the track after having gone off-and then between Piquet and Prost, which Prost won.
He then missed a gear coming out of the chicane thanks to a troublesome gearbox and was passed by the March but Capelli's lead only lasted for a few hundred metres, as the extra power of the Honda turbo engine allowed Prost to regain the lead going into the first turn.
By then Senna was catching Prost rapidly, and with traffic, Prost's malfunctioning gearbox, and a tricky wet and dry surface, conditions were favourable to the Brazilian.
On lap 34, with Prost only one second back, Senna waved his teammate past and then pitted.
The two-hour time limit was reached after 75 of the scheduled 81 laps, as Prost coasted to his only United States win and increased his then all-time record victory total to 36, his first in a naturally aspirated car.
Prost then made what seemed a precautionary pitstop for tyres but a problem with fitting the right rear meant it was 25 seconds before he was released off the jacks.
Prost also went by his new teammate on the left, and then sliced back to the right, between Alesi and Piquet, beating Piquet to the apex of Turn Five and regaining second place.
Senna proceeded to pass Schumacher going into Ascari, and then slipstreamed passed Berger into the first corner, and got back to second by passing arch-rival Prost going into the second chicane.
At the start, Hill beat Prost away, while the Benettons were slow and were passed by Berger and Senna ( who had already got ahead of Brundle and then Alesi ).
Fourth placed Brundle then spun as well at the second chicane forcing Prost to take evasive action and bypass part of the track.
Prost then went off at the first corner but was able to rejoin without losing time to Senna, who was delayed by traffic.
It was also jubilant scenes at Prost when Jean Alesi finished 5th then threw his helmet into the crowd after the race.
At the start, Hill beat off Prost while the Benettons were slow and were passed by Berger and the amazing Senna ( who had already got ahead of Brundle and then Alesi ).
Prost and went
In 1997, Prost took over the French Ligier team, running it as Prost Grand Prix until it went bankrupt in 2002.
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.
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.
Senna pitted because of handling troubles of his Lotus 99T and so Prost went into the lead.
When Prost stopped for fresh tyres the lead was briefly passed to Thierry Boutsen, who was performing admirably with his Benetton B187, before Piquet went back to first before his second stop, on lap 21.
Qualifying at Monza went as expected with the McLaren's of Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost heading the field, Senna the only driver to lap the 5. 80km ( 3. 603mi ) under 1: 26.
In qualifying on Friday, Ayrton Senna went progressively faster and faster, eventually posting a time 1. 5 seconds ahead of McLaren teammate Alain Prost and the rest of the field.
Prost and Senna were on the limit the entire race and Prost hounded Senna for 16 laps, until he went in for his pit stop for tyres, which was a terribly slow one of 18 seconds, which put Mansell in 2nd place and Senna even further away.
At the second start everything went to plan and Senna led from Prost, Alesi, Berger, Patrese, and Boutsen, with Pirro being the first retirement when his engine blew on the opening lap.
Prost was later passed at the same place by teammate Mansell who went on to finish third.
Prost overtook Capelli for the lead on lap 77 of 80 and went on to win in front of his home crowd at the last French Grand Prix held at Paul Ricard before the race was moved to Magny-Cours in.
Then on lap 70, with one brilliant move into Turn Five, Prost went from fourth to second.
Prost was faster and tried to go around the outside, Senna would not give way and Prost went off and proceeded to stall the engine.
Through Maggotts they went and Senna went round Prost to take second.
The fans went wild as Hill was leading ahead of Senna, Prost, Schumacher, Brundle and Patrese.
Prost and ahead
In the next round in Europe, Hill again finished second behind Senna and ahead of a lapped Prost.
Berger was leading the final race of the season at Adelaide ahead of Prost and Senna before he clashed with former Ferrari driver René Arnoux in the Ligier while trying to lap the Frenchman.
The drivers took the first one-two in Renault's history in Formula One, Arnoux finishing ahead of Prost.
He rejoined in 4th place, just ahead of Keke Rosberg, having lost position to Prost and Elio de Angelis.
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.
Piquet qualified second, behind Patrick Tambay ( Ferrari ) in pole position and ahead of Riccardo Patrese ( Brabham ), Arnoux and Prost in third, fourth and fifth.
And Prost finally got by Rosberg later on at the Verriere bends ; and the pace started to hot up as Prost began to push very hard, catching Piquet ( who was now 23 seconds ahead ) at 1. 5 to 2 seconds a lap.
Keke Rosberg overtook Alain Prost on the last lap but the computers recording the final results listed Prost finishing second ahead of Rosberg in third.
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.
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.
Prost took the final podium place, with Senna fourth ahead of Teo Fabi's Benetton B187 in fifth.
Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna finished in second position in his Lotus 99T ahead of reigning world champion Alain Prost in his McLaren MP4 / 3.
Prost finished 20 seconds ahead of Austrian driver Gerhard Berger driving a Ferrari F1 / 87.
Ayrton Senna won, 5. 9 seconds ahead of Prost with Boutsen 45. 5 seconds behind Prost in third.
Many people in the F1 Paddock believed that Prost, knowing he wouldn't finish, hoped to make Senna use too much fuel in his bid to keep ahead, something which could have consequences for Senna later in the race if he was forced to back off to try to finish.
On lap 47 Mansell pitted but a sticking wheel nut delayed him and enabled Prost to pull ahead.
At the start Ayrton Senna got away well but behind him Alain Prost found himself just ahead of Nigel Mansell's Ferrari but the Englishman could not find his way around Prost's McLaren.
Senna made it to the corner first, and led by. 45 seconds after one lap, ahead of Prost, Alessandro Nannini, Nigel Mansell, Alex Caffi, Stefano Modena, Martin Brundle, Gerhard Berger, Andrea de Cesaris and Michele Alboreto.
Alain Prost won the race for McLaren-Honda ahead of Nigel Mansell who started from the pitlane in a car set up for his teammate Gerhard Berger.
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