Fan of Formula 1 history and Alain Prost @formula-history - Tumblr Blog

hanging with the bestie 👭

#look how neat Nigel combed his hair 😭#“I pinky promise I won't make things toxic”

‘I have to be as close to perfection as possible because Alain is always like that, too — close to perfection. I have to be exact in setting the car up, exact in every decision I make. We are in the same factory team. If I want to compete with him I have to give the same as he does. For me it is important to have a competitive car like I have now. It is the first time in my career I have been in such a situation and I feel quite happy. With Alain, I expected it to be as it has turned out and I can’t see any reason why it should change. In other words, harmony not friction.’

‘So Senna says he has to be perfect because of me? I’m facing the same situation. I have to be perfect because of him. A big difference is that for the first time Ayrton has the car to become World Champion and his motivation is high. He wants the Championship and he wants to beat me — but in a sporting way and that’s good. No problem between him and me, none at all. He is quicker and I have no excuses but honestly I don’t think he is that much quicker. He is pushing hard all the time.’

Pg 228-230, The Greatest Double-Act on Earth, Conquest of Formula 1.

#sometimes I think Alain was fed lines from someone who knew the future #because nobody could come out with as much ironic shit as he did by coincidence alone

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Prost Grand Prix

#why does this all look like one of those mockumentary comedies about an industry #if I had money I would fund one of these shows with a parody of Prost GP

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Drivers meeting - from the film 'Grand Prix 66'

How many drivers can you recognise? 😉

If a 14 year old made an F1 driver OC they'd be like "oh his dad used to race Ages Ago but then he died so my oc was turned off the sport but was brought back there because that's his Destiny. And then when he was a rookie he got to be team mates with Legendary Veteran. Actually, I changed my mind. What about this Legendary Veteran instead? And then what if the veteran also died and suddenly he was in the spotlight because he's the Chosen One but he has a stereotypical sports film bad guy as a rival but then they kissed about it."

And it sounds like you're making F1's Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way but it turns out that's just Damon Hill.

#damon hill #like honestly that man sounds so fake #and then their best friend makes their own edgy oc and thats jacque villeneuve #formula 1

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Ahhhhh its Jackie Stewarts birthday today

Happy Birthday Jackie

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EVERY PROSENNA PODIUM 36/41

1991 Italian Grand Prix

8th September 1991

Bonus Nigel ruining Jo Ramirez’ day:

#Manic Pixie Dream Mansell

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[It was in Hockenheim in 1988.] I was eating out with Prost and Senna was having dinner at the circuit. He went to seek Alain, found us in the restaurant and told Alain: "You should call the [McLaren] garage, they're changing your chassis." Many drivers would have thought, "That's not my problem", but not Senna. He'd made the effort to go find his teammate to tell him what was happening, and Alain remembered he had in fact damaged his chassis a little on a kerb.

Jean-Louis Moncet, interviewed in French here

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extremely funny because i found the same anecdote with only a few details changed in johnny rives’s book about 1988 except this time he says senna had a wide smile and was clearly happy to unsettle prost with the news of a broken chassis

#this makes it even funnier #little shit

Christian Horner getting the sack has got to be one of the top 10 things to happen in F1 while I've watched it.

#still a long list of people on my hit list but at least that fucker is gone #not history #well technically #formula 1

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what i have rn of an alain hat collection

@thinkingaboutfilm11

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forgot this one

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?? okay diva

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Fresh-faced, pre-perm, 19-year-old Alain Prost receiving an award hosted by the newspaper Le Progrès after winning the French Senior Karting Championship a few weeks ago.

#A FETUS #<- so true #pre running away from the military too

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alain prost in a skit on Certains Leeb Show in 1986 where (from my interpretation) his car broke down and he couldn't figure out how to fix it, which caused his date to dump him and for him to miss the whole show. Then, as he was trying to hitch a ride to the show, the lady above told him it was already over and asked if he wanted to go to Vegas with her to which ofc he agrees.

#what is it about him that made people go “I gotta put that guy in a stupid situation”