- Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur is a French former racing driver
Born: | 24 February 1955 Comment | How old is Alain Prost in 2024? / Age: | 69 years
| Zodiac sign: | Pisces |
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Alain Prost facts
- A four-time Formula One Drivers' Champion, only Sebastian Vettel (four championships), Juan Manuel Fangio (five championships), and Michael Schumacher (seven championships) have equalled or surpassed his number of titles
- From 1987 until 2001 Prost held the record for most Grand Prix victories
- Schumacher surpassed Prost's total of 51 victories at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix
- In 1999, Prost received the World Sports Awards of the Century in the motor sport category
- Prost discovered karting at the age of 14 during a family holiday
- He progressed through motor sport's junior ranks, winning the French and European Formula Three championships, before joining the McLaren Formula One team in 1980 at the age of 24
- He finished in the points on his Formula One début at the San Martin Autodrome in Buenos Aires, Argentina (where he took his first podium a year later) and took his first race victory at his home Grand Prix in France a year later, driving for the factory Renault team
- During the 1980s and early 1990s, Prost formed a fierce rivalry mainly with Ayrton Senna, but also Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell
- In 1986, at the last race of the season, he beat Mansell and Piquet of Williams to the title after Mansell retired late on in the race, and Piquet was pulled in for a late precautionary pit stop
- Senna joined Prost at McLaren in 1988 and the two had a series of controversial clashes, including a collision at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix that gave Prost his third Drivers' Championship
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