#alain prost

[mxmorden]

The TikTok gods have blessed me with an interview to Ayrton from Italia Uno taken at the 1990 Bologna Motor Show (I checked, and it was apparently around December 1990), and:

-he was asked if he was worried abt the fact apparently a bunch of McLaren "technicians" had left, and he answered that no, it wasn't that weird, and that teams couldn't expect to be able to keep the same people every season, then added, SMILING: "not even the racers :)))"

-after some talk about Cesare Fiorio getting pissed of bc of something Ayrton said to him, he said he was offered a ride with Ferrari but he was the one who decided not to sign the contract, otherwise he would have been in Ferrari in 1991

-he was immediately asked if it was Alain who didn't want him in Ferrari and he laughed and said: "ask him, not me"

I keep imagining Alain trying to escape Ayrton by switching teams and Ayrton going: "👀👀👀 where do YOU think you're going???" 😂😂😂😭😭😭

[silveryhill]

made for each other

[verstappen-smell-the-roses]

I love how all the five Prost stans of the world know so much about him

[jhdaughter]

i need senna being the mean bitch who laughs at alain's face when he confesses his love (senna can't live without alain fr)

[zingaplanet]

The weight that we carry.

Alain Prost lifting the coffin of his lifelong rival, Ayrton Senna, at his funeral, Sao Paulo, 1994

[daemonhill]

Commentator: What is the current situation between your drivers? Ron Dennis: There's a little tension there at the moment, mainly because they're on equal points, we're three races into the season, and it's reasonably apparent at the moment that we have a competitive edge on most of the other teams, which tends to focus everything on an outcome between Alain and Ayrton. It's a little bit like marriage though; a lot of people are married, but for it to work you have to work hard at it. It's a common objective, and that's the problem, they've both got a common objective of being the world champion. It's just a tense difficult situation, but in control.

Ron Dennis describing Prost and Senna's relationship as marriage completely unprompted to ESPN while also downplaying how bad the relationship between them is at the Mexican GP 1989.

[daemonhill]

Some Thoughts on Monaco 1989

Apparently Ferrari doesn’t know what caused Berger’s accident at Imola b/c the tifosi stole enough pieces off of his car that it’s hard to tell 😂

March and Benetton STILL using their 1988 cars omg

"We have been assured…that all is well between [Senna and Prost], but I believe that’s not to be the case. Alain Prost was absolutely livid with Senna for what he regarded as a less than honest attitude. “That’s assurance from the management of McLaren and not from the drivers themselves.” I'm pretty sure they aren't speaking at the moment so I'm not sure how that qualifies as "all is well" but whatever the PR department has to say I guess...

Rene Arnoux claiming he can’t adjust to naturally aspirated and James calling BS on it verbatum on the air lol. Considering the situation James is probably right but struggling to adjust to the new way of driving is a real thing that happens current season case and point.

Arnoux is not letting Prost’s OG teammate rivalry die.

I don't think backmarkers should be allowed to impede frontrunners but Arnoux choosing violence about it is admittedly really funny

Cars driving around marshals on the track after de Cesaris and Piquet collided and have both of their cars stopped in the middle of the road has so much fear in my heart

“Good night to Australia and good night to Alan Jones particularly” oh James Hunt how I love you. He would have loved those "good night to everyone except" videos

Wait wait wait why is Martin Brundle aloud to get out of the car while they work on it in the pits? I though the rules were that you could not leave the car during the race hence why Senna was able to keep going in Suzuka and Prost was not…commentators also seem shocked by it but that’s more because they don’t know what’s going on than thinking it’s not allowed.

Senna and Prost having lapped the entire field is iconic

Williams is also using their 1988 car...I knew F1 used to be much much harder to profit from but I didn't realize not being able to have a new car ready to go was such a problem.

"[Senna moves] up intro the world championship lead jointly with his teammate Alain Prost, and from now on we can really expect to see the sparks fly” Murray was that the expression you wanted to use are we sure about that.

[grayrchive]

proper name place name backstory stuff