List Of Formula One Grand Prix Wins By Alain Prost
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Alain Prost Alain Marie Pascal Prost (; born 24 February 1955) is a French retired racing driver and Formula One team owner. A four-time Formula One World Drivers' Champion, from 1987 until 2001 he held the record for most Grand Prix victories until Mich ...
is a French former racing driver who won four
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. He entered Formula One in the 1980 season with
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, but moved to
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after one season, breaking his two-year contract. He spent three seasons at Renault, but fell out with the team, which he felt had blamed him for their failure to win a world championship, and returned to McLaren in missing out on the world championship by half a point to his teammate
Niki Lauda Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (22 February 1949 – 20 May 2019) was an Austrian Formula One driver and aviation entrepreneur. He was a three-time Formula One World Drivers' Champion, winning in , and , and is the only driver in Formula ...
. Over the next 2 seasons he won back-to-back world championships in and . In ,
Ayrton Senna Ayrton Senna da Silva (; 21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver who won the Formula One List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions, World Drivers' Championship in , , and . Senna is one of three Formula One drivers fro ...
joined McLaren as Prost's teammate, and the pair developed an intense rivalry which featured race incidents and collisions occurring between the two. Prost secured his third world championship with McLaren in , but switched to
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for the season. He missed out on the world championship that season after Senna intentionally crashed into him during the penultimate race of the year. After an unsuccessful year in , Prost was critical of the Ferrari team, and had his contract terminated. After a year out, he joined Williams for , winning his fourth and final world championship. Prost achieved his first victory in Formula One on home soil the 1981 French Grand Prix on 5 July. His second win, at the later that season, was described as one of his best according to Graham Keilloh of ''
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'' magazine, who said he "was faultless under the most pitiless pressure." He won nine races during his three seasons with Renault, and won a record-equalling seven races during his first season back with McLaren, when he missed out on the Formula One world championship by half a point from his teammate
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. Over the next two seasons, he won nine races as he won back-to-back championship titles, and in he set a new record for the
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, passing
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's total of 27. In he was once again the championship runner-up, despite winning seven races, establishing an intense rivalry with his teammate,
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. Prost won four times in 1989 as he claimed the world championship for the third time, and then won five races the following season with Ferrari. The 1991 season was the first since his debut year in 1980 that Prost did not achieve a race win. After missing the 1992 season, Prost won seven races in 1993 to claim his fourth world championship. His final win in Formula One came at the
1993 German Grand Prix The 1993 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Hockenheimring, Hockenheim on 25 July 1993. It was the tenth race of the 1993 Formula One World Championship. The 45-lap race was won by Frenchman Alain Prost, driving a Williams Gra ...
. In all, Prost won 51 Grands Prix at 24 different circuits, currently ranking him fourth in the all-time Formula One Grand Prix winners' list. He was most successful at
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and
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, winning five times at both. The majority of his wins (31) were for McLaren; he also won 9 races with Renault, 7 for Williams and 5 with Ferrari. His most successful races were the Brazilian and French Grands Prix, each of which he won six times.


Wins

Key: * No. – Victory number; for example, "1" signifies Prost's first race win. * Race – Race number; for example, "1" signifies the first race Prost took part in. Races in which Prost unsuccessfully attempted to qualify are included. * Grid – The position on the
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at which Prost started the race. * Margin – Margin of victory, given in the format of minutes:seconds.milliseconds * – Driver's Championship winning season.


Number of wins at different Grands Prix


Number of wins at different circuits


See also

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References


External links


Drivers: Hall of Fame: Alain Prost

Alain Prost: Involvement
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