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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.
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The combination of Prost and Senna was particularly dominant — together they won all but one race in 1988 — but later their rivalry soured and Prost left for Ferrari.
Alain Prost, pictured here at the 1985 German Grand Prix, won three drivers ' championships with McLaren.
A four-time Formula One Drivers ' Champion, Prost has won more titles than any driver except for Juan Manuel Fangio ( five championships ), and Michael Schumacher ( seven championships ).
With a competitive car, Prost won the 1993 championship and retired from driving at the end of the year.
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.
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.
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.
The whole season continued to be dominated by Lauda and Prost, who won 12 of 16 races.
Lauda won five races, while Prost was able to win seven Grands Prix.
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.
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 ).
Prost was beached and got out of his car promptly, knowing he had won the championship whilst Senna got a push from the marshals.
French driver Alain Prost won the race 6 times at 3 different circuits ; however German driver Michael Schumacher has won 8 times-the most anybody has ever won any Grand Prix.
In 21 October 1984, Portugal returned to the F1 calendar, ending the season, where Alain Prost won the race but failed to win the Championship by half a point.
Michael Schumacher won the race 7 times and Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost both won it 3 times.
The most ever is by the Frenchman Alain Prost, who has won it 6 times ( including 5 times at Jacarepaguá ).
Constructors ' and drivers ' world championships were won with Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Mika Häkkinen and Lewis Hamilton.
Prost won in 1989, and then left for Ferrari after clashing with Senna.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Prost and Piquet
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Prost formed a fierce rivalry with mainly Ayrton Senna, but also Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell.
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 ).
With three victories, at the Canadian, German, and Dutch Grands Prix, he was in contention for the world title for much of the season, but was left behind by his rivals Prost and Nelson Piquet in the championship run in.
Prost inherited a comfortable lead from de Angelis with Piquet promoted to 3rd.
Before the race, three drivers were still in a position to win the World Drivers ' Championship: Alain Prost ( Renault ) led the championship with 57 points, followed by Nelson Piquet ( Brabham-BMW ) with 55 and René Arnoux ( Ferrari ) with 49.
Alboreto drove a hard race ; he eventually caught Prost, and he was re-passed by Prost after he punctured his left rear tyre at the first corner where Piquet and Patrese crashed.
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.
Rosberg then went into the pits for new rubber and he stormed after Prost and Piquet.
But Piquet was able to hold off both Prost and Rosberg to take what would be Brabham's last victory.
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.
Lauda's teammate Alain Prost captured pole position, averaging 155. 478 mph ( 250. 219 km / h ), followed by Nigel Mansell, Lauda, Keke Rosberg and Nelson Piquet.
Prost won by almost 52 seconds over the Brazilian duo Nelson Piquet ( Brabham BT54 ) and Ayrton Senna ( Lotus 97T ).
Nelson Piquet was 4th on the grid in his Brabham-BMW, World Champion elect Alain Prost was 5th in his McLaren-TAG Porsche, with the Ferrari of 1985 World Championship runner up Michele Alboreto rounding out the top six qualifiers.
The drivers in contention for the title were ; Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet, both of whom were racing for the Williams-Honda team, and McLaren's Alain Prost.
Following the tyre failures of Rosberg and Mansell, the Williams team called Piquet in for a pre-cautionary stop and he came out of the pits 15 seconds behind Prost.
Piquet made a late charge to close the gap to 4. 2 seconds but Prost took victory to win his second of four titles.
The leader of the championship prior to the race was British driver Nigel Mansell ; six points behind him in second was Alain Prost, who was looking to defend his title and one point behind Prost was Mansell's teammate at Williams, Nelson Piquet.
To win the championship Mansell needed either third position or higher, or for both Prost and Piquet to finish in second place or lower.
For Prost or Piquet to win the championship, they would have to win the race, and see Mansell finish in fourth position or lower.
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