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.

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.

Before the end of a winless 1991 season Prost was fired by Ferrari for his public criticism of the team.

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.

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.

Hill left Arrows after one season and after coming close to signing for the Prost team run by his former team-mate, decided instead to sign for the Jordan team for the 1998 season.

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.

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.

From there he put some 5 seconds between himself and Prost before being taken out by Arnoux on lap 28.

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.

Similarly, an attempt by the U. S. military to win favour with children of the Prost region of Afghanistan by distributing footballs adorned with flags, including that of Saudi Arabia, ended in demonstrations.

Cars include examples driven by such famous names as Nuvolari, Mansell, Prost, Moss, Senna, Fangio, Clark and Stewart.

* Inspiration: 1990 Ferrari 641 as driven by Alain Prost

Arnoux's situation was complicated in 1981 by the arrival of Alain Prost at Renault.

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.

Alain Prost dominated the race after Ayrton Senna and Nigel Mansell retired early, before almost running out of fuel, three corners from the chequered flag.

Surprisingly 2nd on the grid at the noted power circuit was the McLaren-TAG Porsche of World Champion Alain Prost, despite being almost slower than the Benettons on Monza's long straights.

Mansell was elevated to second behind new leader Piquet, but Prost passed him almost immediately.

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 ).

This allowed Prost to take advantage and build a lead of almost two seconds by the end of the first lap.

Prost was not impressed with Senna's tactics and this led to some angry, but controlled, words in the McLaren camp after the race ( Senna countered Prost's anger by stating that he had almost been pushed onto the grass by Prost before the first corner after the start, though many saw this as a tactic used by drivers at just about every start ).

They started trading off fastest laps and Prost held off Senna for almost the entire race-but on lap 43, Prost's gearbox malfunctioned, lost 6th gear and Senna passed him coming into the stadium.

At the start with both Ferraris on the front row ( Nigel Mansell on pole, Alain Prost second ), Mansell's start was so poor that he almost took his own teammate Prost out of the race, and it also allowed the McLarens of Ayrton Senna and Gerhard Berger to slip past Mansell and Prost to make it a McLaren 1 – 2 with Senna leading into the first corner.

An almost identical grid to Brazil saw Senna, Berger, Patrese, Boutsen, Mansell and Prost line up after qualifying.

At the start, Mansell's snaky start almost took Prost out and the McLarens blasted by them with Piquet getting by Prost as well.

Senna went on to win by almost a whole minute over Prost while Stefano Modena secured a valuable third for the underfunded Brabham team on its return to Formula One after a year out.

In Germany, however, Senna's bad luck ended after scoring a treble-pole, fastest lap and the win, but he had to fight almost all the way with Prost to do so.

* 1988: In a season almost totally dominated by the McLaren-Honda's of World Champion Ayrton Senna and his team mate Alain Prost, it was no surprise to see them dominate qualifying with Senna taking his 13th pole of the season, the pair over 1. 6 seconds than 3rd fastest Nigel Mansell in his atmospheric Williams-Judd.