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- Amidst a winless 1991 campaign for Ferrari, he was sacked by the team over comments made about the Ferrari 643.
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Nov 1, 1991 · NOVEMBER 1, 1991. Why Ferrari fired Alain Prost... BY JOE SAWARD. Claudio Lombardi is team director of Ferrari and, in theory at least, the man who makes decisions in the Ferrari racing team. We asked him why Alain Prost was not racing in Adelaide. This is what he had to say:
Jul 26, 2020 · Alain Prost’s Ferrari exit was triggered by some disparaging comments regarding his F1 car, but was actually more than a year in the making.
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The Danish driver made his F1 debut with the Woking-based squad in 2014, immediately scoring a podium on his debut. It was to be the high point of his season, with Magnussen putting in a solid, if unspectacular, year to finish 11th overall in his first season in the sport. Teammate Jenson Button would finish eighth overall, with a points tally of m...
Nelson Piquet Junior, son of a three-time F1 World Champion, arrived to a Renault race seat with great fanfare in 2008, as he was teamed up with Fernando Alonso. But Piquet struggled for pace and form at the beginning of his career, not helped by a Renault that was a clear step backward from the machines the Enstone-based team had produced in recen...
Even in the early days of the Red Bull driver programme, the organisation picked up a reputation for being ruthless and extremely tough on the drivers within its fold. Even if one of those drivers was a four-time consecutive Champcar champion, as Sebastien Bourdais was when he was signed to partner up with the promising Sebastian Vettel at Toro Ros...
Having almost landed the 1990 World Championship for Ferrari (until an infamous collision with Ayrton Senna ended their year in the gravel at Turn 1 at Suzuka), 1991 was an unmitigated disaster for Prost and the Scuderia. Prost would finish the year in fifth place overall, with just over a third of the points of championship winner Senna, with thre...
While the Grove-based squad were the dominant force of the 1990s, no driver would win two titles driving one of Adrian Newey’s Williams. Nigel Mansell didn’t stick around for 1993 in order to defend his dominant ’92 championship, as he found out Williams weren’t willing to throw money at him to stay after securing the signature of Alain Prost – som...
Renault driver Jolyon Palmer was replaced by Carlos Sainz for the 2017 F1 season, but hadn’t been told the news by anyone at Renault when he logged onto the internet and saw the headlines about his dismissal. Having struggled for form as a rookie at Renault, Palmer had made it halfway into his second season in the sport before Renault took the deci...
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May 10, 2020 · He was collected by his team-mate Patrick Tambay with both drivers suffering leg injuries. Prost lost the lead to Mansell when his TAG engine began to misfire and he got caught up...
Prost said in an interview with ESPN during the final race that his car was "not competitive" and that he "didn't lose by my own fault" [20] Renault fired Prost only two days after the South African race. He re-signed for McLaren for the 1984 season within days and moved his family home to Switzerland after Renault factory workers burned the ...
Jan 18, 2022 · Alain Prost's stay with Alpine has come to an unsavoury end, with the "very disappointed" Formula 1 legend accusing the team of "no respect" after reports of his exit emerged before an official...
Jun 21, 2020 · Prost believes he was fired for “political reasons” that were linked with him wanting to be more involved in the off-track decision-making process to move the team forwards. He since quipped...
