"90% of the race distance.<br> Nico Prost Nicolas Jean Prost (born 18 August 1981) is a French professional racing driver. He recently raced in the FIA Formula E Championship before quitting the series. He is also a longstanding racer in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Lotus Rebellion Racing. He also competes in the Andros Trophy and he was a reserve driver for Lotus F1. He is a son of four-time Formula One world champion Alain Prost. Born in Saint-Chamond, Loire, and despite being the oldest son of four-time Formula One World Drivers' champion Alain Prost and his wife Anne-Marie,"
"2016 Belgian Grand Prix. Pierre Gasly made his debut for Scuderia Toro Rosso at the 2017 Malaysian Grand Prix. Formula One drivers from France There have been 73 Formula One drivers from France, the most successful of them being Alain Prost who won the World Drivers' Championship four times. The title has been won by a French driver on four occasions, all of which were victories for Alain Prost. Eleven other drivers have won at least one race, though they are all far behind Prost's tally of 51 wins. In the 2018 Formula One season there are three French drivers."
"Formula One drivers from France There have been 73 Formula One drivers from France, the most successful of them being Alain Prost who won the World Drivers' Championship four times. The title has been won by a French driver on four occasions, all of which were victories for Alain Prost. Eleven other drivers have won at least one race, though they are all far behind Prost's tally of 51 wins. In the 2018 Formula One season there are three French drivers. Romain Grosjean was born in Geneva, Switzerland but races as a French driver. He came through the Renault driver"
"Alain Prost won the race six times at three different circuits; however German driver Michael Schumacher has won eight times – the most anybody has ever won any Grand Prix. Monégasque driver Louis Chiron won it five times, and the Argentine driver Juan Manuel Fangio and British driver Nigel Mansell both won four times. In December 2016, it was confirmed that the French Grand Prix would return in 2018 at the Circuit Paul Ricard. ""A pink background indicates an event which was not part of the Formula One World Championship.""<br> ""A yellow background indicates an event which was part of"
"Renault refugee Alain Prost for comparatively nothing (since he was already under contract to Renault but was fired for 1984). He did return for one further race two years later, driving for McLaren in place of an injured Niki Lauda at the 1985 European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch, in which he qualified 21st and placed seventh in the race (Lauda had injured his wrist in qualifying for the previous race at Spa, forcing him to miss that race also). Watson raced with Lauda's race number of ""1"" (the Austrian having won the World Championship). This was only the second"
"names were replaced from ""Formula Renault 2000"" to ""Formula Renault 2.0"". An Uruguyan 2.0L series is also held (José Pedro Passadores 2003 champion). A majority of Formula Renault champions have gone onto lead successful careers in motor racing, most notably Alain Prost who won the Formula One World Championship four times in his career. Other drivers include René Arnoux, Didier Pironi, Kimi Räikkönen, Felipe Massa and Lewis Hamilton all of whom have gone onto win Grands Prix. This Formula Renault series is open to drivers between 14 and 21 years that have raced before in karting series. The cars use"
"heroes like Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark. He was nicknamed ""The Professor"" for his intellectual approach to competition. Though it was not a name he particularly cared for, he would admit later that it was an appropriate summation of his approach to his racing. Skilled at setting up his car for race conditions, Prost would often conserve his brakes and tyres early in a race, leaving them fresher for a challenge at the end. Alain Prost was born near the town of Saint-Chamond, close to the cities of Lyon and Saint-Etienne in the département of Loire, France, to André Prost"
"One World Championship."" As of the 2018 edition, four-time World Drivers' Champion Alain Prost remains the only driver to win the race in both World Championship and domestic formats, winning the Australian Drivers' Championship 1982 race before winning in Adelaide in 1986 and 1988. ""Teams in bold are competing in the Formula One championship in the current season.""<br> ""A pink background indicates an event which was not part of the Formula One World Championship."" ""A pink background indicates an event which was not part of the Formula One World Championship."" Australian Grand Prix The Australian Grand Prix is a motor"
"(2005 and 2006), and Formula One World Drivers' Champion Alain Prost (1985, 1986, 1989, and 1993). France is also home to the most Champions in Formula Two history with Jean-Pierre Beltoise (1968), Johnny Servoz-Gavin (1969), Jean-Pierre Jarier (1973), Patrick Depailler (1974), Jacques Laffite (1975), Jean-Pierre Jabouille (1976), and René Arnoux (1977). French constructors have also been successful with Matra winning the Championships in 1967, 1968, and 1969, Automobiles Martini in 1975 and 1977, and Renault in 1976 and 1977. France produced five champions in the International Formula 3000 championship, the successor to the European F2 series: Jean Alesi (1989), Érik"
"Anne-Marie (born 14 February 1955), but they divorced sometime later. They have two sons, Nicolas (born 18 August 1981) and Sacha Prost (born 30 May 1990). Prost also has a daughter, Victoria. From 2014 to 2018, Nicolas raced in Formula E for e.dams Renault, a team partially run by his father. Prost lived in his hometown, Saint-Chamond, until he and his Renault team fell out in the early 1980s. In April 1983 the Prost family moved to Sainte-Croix, Switzerland, and shortly after to Yens, Switzerland. They moved to Switzerland after Renault workers went to Prost's house in France and burned"
"racing driver Neel Jani. In 2012 and 2013, Prost competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Rebellion Racing in a LMP1-class Lola B12/60 Toyota. With his mate Neel Jani, they won 9 races in these two years in the LMP1 privateer category. He will race the new Rebellion R-One in the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship season. Prost has won the first four races of 2014 in the LMP1-L Category and has already clinched the title in the category. Prost clinched back to back victories at Petit Le Mans in 2012 and 2013. He also finished 3rd in the"
"(4: Renault, McLaren, Ferrari, and Williams). He also shares the record for starting every race of the season from the front row (16 in ), with Ayrton Senna in , and Damon Hill in . He is also thus far the most recent Frenchman to win his home Grand Prix. Prost's battles with Ayrton Senna were particularly notable. The rivalry originated in 1988, when Senna joined Prost at the McLaren team. The most notable event during the season between the two occurred during the Portuguese Grand Prix, where Senna tried to block Prost from taking the lead by forcing the"
"that a former driver sits on the stewards' panel. Prost was the first such driver to take on this role, at the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix. Prost also took part in the Race of Champions in 2010, a race organised for legends of motor sport to compete in equal machinery. In February 2012, Prost was named as Renault's new international ambassador, representing the company in sports demonstrations and at events organized or attended by Renault. Prost has finished the Absa Cape Epic, an eight-day 700 km mountain bike race in South Africa, twice. He first completed the race in 2012"
"cars started on the front row until the 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix, when young Spaniard Fernando Alonso and Jarno Trulli started on the front row. On home soil, Renault totally dominated the French Grand Prix. Alain Prost took pole position an incredible 2.3 seconds faster than second placed teammate Eddie Cheever. On the fast Paul Ricard circuit with its 1.8 km long Mistral Straight, turbo engines were the thing to have with the fastest atmo car being the 12th placed McLaren-Ford of Long Beach runner up Niki Lauda some 4.3 seconds slower than pole man Prost. After occupying the front"
"Lance Stroll Lance Stroll (born 29 October 1998) is a Belgian-Canadian racing driver, racing under the Canadian flag, currently driving in Formula One with Racing Point F1 Team. He was Italian F4 champion in 2014, Toyota Racing Series champion in 2015, and 2016 FIA European Formula 3 champion. He was part of the Ferrari Driver Academy from 2010 to 2015. He achieved his first podium finish, a 3rd place, at the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, becoming the second-youngest driver to finish an F1 race on the podium and the youngest to do so during his rookie season. Stroll is Jewish,"
"helmet was blue with a yellow stripe with white edges covering the centre of the helmet. The colours were a tribute to Ronnie Peterson, whose helmet design also used them. Did not finish, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance.<br> Michele Alboreto Michele Alboreto (23 December 1956 – 25 April 2001) was an Italian racing driver. He was runner up to Alain Prost in the 1985 Formula One World Championship, as well as winning the 1997 24 Hours of Le Mans and 2001 12 Hours of Sebring sports car races. Alboreto competed in"
"with partner Sebastien di Pasqua and then again in 2013, and started but did not finish the race in 2014. In October 2013 it was announced that Prost would join forces with Jean-Paul Driot's DAMS racing team to form e.dams, a team which would compete in the FIA Formula E Championship for electric racing cars from its commencement in September 2014. In June 2014 the team announced that its initial driver line-up would consist of Nicolas Prost and Sébastien Buemi. The team went on to win the inaugural Formula E teams championship. In 2017 it was announced that Prost would"
"appeared to be a logical choice from a results perspective too, for Alain Prost had mounted a serious world championship challenge at Ferrari the previous year, and the 1991 Ferrari set good lap times in winter testing. He had third-place finishes at Monaco, Germany and Portugal, and finished in the top six at Brazil, France, Hungary and Spain (despite a stop and go penalty for a jump start in the Spanish Grand Prix). The 1991 Ferrari also turned out to be unreliable, and he had nine retirements during the season, including a mechanical failure while leading the Belgian Grand Prix."
"including three second-place finishes and Prémat's first race victory in the championship at the 2016 Castrol Gold Coast 600. Alexandre Prémat Alexandre Prémat (born 5 April 1982) is a multiple-championship winning French racing driver. He currently drives for DJR Team Penske as a co-driver alongside Scott McLaughlin in the Pirtek Enduro Cup series. Prémat won the Pirtek Enduro Cup for Triple Eight Race Engineering alongside Shane van Gisbergen in 2016. Born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne, Prémat started his motorsport career in karting at the age of 10. In 1998 the French driver became champion in «Ile-de-France». In 2000 he finished as"
"times. Another multiple championship winner is Alain Prost, with 3 championships and 38 race wins. The series always attracts names who were famous in other series before moving to ice racing – including Formula One drivers Olivier Panis, Romain Grosjean and Jacques Villeneuve. On 14 February 1999, the series held a ""Superfinal"" at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, on the outskirts of Paris. Using 700 tonnes of ice, an oval track was established around the edge of the stadium, allowing for racing in front of around 60,000 people, with no championship points at stake. The Superfinal was held at"
"by FOCA to the organizers. French rising star Alain Prost crashed heavily on Saturday morning practice due to suspension failure at the very fast left-handed Turn 10, the second-to-last corner on the track. Prost received a concussion after hitting his head on his car's steering wheel; he had to miss the race but was at the circuit on race day; he felt he could not trust the car's mechanical strength after a season's worth of component failures on his car, which often led to accidents; this happened to Prost a week earlier in Montreal. Bruno Giacomelli took pole in his"
"1989 French Grand Prix The 1989 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Paul Ricard on 9 July 1989. In a press conference before the weekend, Alain Prost announced that he would be leaving McLaren at the end of the season with the speculation being (which ultimately proved to be correct) that he would join Ferrari in . The race saw four drivers replaced by drivers making their first Formula One start: Jordan Formula 3000 driver Jean Alesi replaced Michele Alboreto at Tyrrell after a rumoured contract dispute (Alboreto was personally sponsored by Marlboro and team"
"the previous race the 1980 Brazilian Grand Prix. Arnoux won by 34 seconds over fellow French driver Jacques Laffite driving a Ligier JS11/15. Laffite's Ligier team mate Didier Pironi was third, completing an all-French podium. This was the first race since the 1968 United States Grand Prix to have three drivers from the same country on the podium; all three were also driving French-built cars. The race was additionally notable because of two accidents during qualifying: French driver Alain Prost broke his wrist when he crashed his McLaren M29 at the Esses after a suspension failure, while Swiss driver Marc"
"Sebring 12 Hours in 2013. During the 2009–2010 winter, Prost participated to the famous Andros Trophy ice racing series in the electrical car category. He clinched the championship with 5 poles, 6 wins, and 18 podiums out of 21 races. He successfully defended his title during the 2010–2011 winter. In 2011–2012, he joined his dad in the works Dacia team and claimed the rookie title in the main series. In 2010, he drove a Renault F1 for the first time in Magny-Cours and impressed the team, beating his daily opponent by more than 2 seconds. In 2011, he joined the"
"as the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans race for automobiles there is also a 24 hours event for karts which takes place at the kart circuit Alain Prost at Le Mans, France.[12] This race has taken place since 1986 and its winners list include four times Champ Car champion Sébastien Bourdais (in 1996). Endurance racing is also considered a more affordable way of getting into karting. In South Africa, the Prokart Africa 24 Hour Endurance race is held annually and lasts 24 hours with multiple classes participating. This event is hosted by the Prokart SSS Club [13] near Johannesburg."
"Prost's second win for the season gave him an 11-point lead over Senna in the Drivers' Championship. The race was Alain Prost's fourth win on home soil after wins at Dijon in 1981 and Paul Ricard in 1983 for Renault, and 1988 for McLaren. 1989 French Grand Prix The 1989 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Paul Ricard on 9 July 1989. In a press conference before the weekend, Alain Prost announced that he would be leaving McLaren at the end of the season with the speculation being (which ultimately proved to be correct) that"
"let teammate and then-reigning World Champion, Australia's Alan Jones, take the win. The 1982 race, held at the height of the FISA–FOCA war, was also shrouded in controversy. Rio born driver Nelson Piquet, who had won the World Championship the year before, finished first in a Brabham BT49-Ford, with Finland's Keke Rosberg second in a Williams FW07C-Ford. However, both drivers were disqualified for being underweight, having raced with ""water-cooled brakes"". This promoted Alain Prost, third in the turbocharged Renault RE30, to the win, the first of an eventual five for the Frenchman at the circuit and start a streak of"
"Alexandre Prémat Alexandre Prémat (born 5 April 1982) is a multiple-championship winning French racing driver. He currently drives for DJR Team Penske as a co-driver alongside Scott McLaughlin in the Pirtek Enduro Cup series. Prémat won the Pirtek Enduro Cup for Triple Eight Race Engineering alongside Shane van Gisbergen in 2016. Born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne, Prémat started his motorsport career in karting at the age of 10. In 1998 the French driver became champion in «Ile-de-France». In 2000 he finished as runner-up in 125cc ICC European Championship. He continued karting until 2000 when he moved up to French Formula Campus,"
"Shinji Nakano Shinji Nakano (中野 信治, born 1 April 1971) is a Japanese professional racing driver. His father, Tsuneharu, was also a racing driver. He competed in the All-Japan Formula Three Championship. Nakano made his debut at the 1997 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne for the Prost Grand Prix team, owned by legendary four times Formula One World Champion Alain Prost. The season saw him score two world championship points with a pair of sixth places. With his place at Prost heavily reliant on their engine partners Mugen-Honda, Nakano was dropped in favour of Jarno Trulli, with the second cockpit"
"and rookie Alexandre Negrão will return for Brazil this weekend as race driver and rookie driver like it was in the 2006-07 season. Loïc Duval was the race driver despite his commitment in Super GT and Formula Nippon this season. Nicolas Prost ran the Rookie sessions, Jonathan Cochet the Friday practice session and Loïc Duval the Saturday afternoon practice and the both Sunday races traveling from Japan during the Friday to Saturday night. Therefore, 3 different drivers from the same team, France, take part on the race weekend. A1 Team Greece engage also 3 different drivers on the 2006-07, Netherlands"
"all. Frenchman Alain Prost finished second in a McLaren-TAG, some 22 seconds behind Mansell, with Swedish teammate Stefan Johansson third. Mansell's teammate and Drivers' Championship rival, Nelson Piquet, finished fourth. Prost broke Niki Lauda's record with his 55th podium at this race. The win moved Mansell ahead of Ayrton Senna, who finished fifth in his Lotus-Honda, into second place in the Drivers' Championship, albeit 18 points behind Piquet with three races remaining. Martin Brundle, who finished 11th in his Zakspeed, described his drive as ""the time I got out the car thinking no human could have done [any] better"". Nelson"
"This meant that McLaren held a commanding lead in the Constructors' Championship, ten points ahead of Brabham. For the French Grand Prix at the Circuit Paul Ricard near Marseille, the RAM team entered a second car for local driver Jean-Louis Schlesser, who failed to qualify. This race was being held in mid-April instead of its usual late June/early July date, in order to avoid the southern French summer heat. The race was dominated by another home driver, Alain Prost. He took pole position, victory and fastest lap and led all but three laps of the race. These three were led"
"of the show in the third episode and finished as 8th out of 10 contestants. Season still in progress<br> Anthony Kumpen Anthony Kumpen (born 3 November 1978) is a Belgian professional racing driver. As the overall winner of the 2014 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series season, he received his license to compete in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. He currently competes full-time in the Euro Series Elite 1 division, driving the No. 24 Chevrolet for PK Carsport. In 1988, Kumpen started Kart racing. He moved on to Belcar, the Belgian Racing Car Championship, in 1998, winning the GT2 championship in"