List of Formula One Grand Prix wins by Alain Prost

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Alain Prost won 51 Formula One races and four world championships. Anefo 933-1302 Huub Rothengatter, Alain Prost, Niki Lauda 29.10.1984 Prost crop.jpg
Alain Prost won 51 Formula One races and four world championships.

Alain Prost is a French former racing driver who won four Formula One World Championships. He entered Formula One in the 1980 season with McLaren, but moved to Renault after one season, breaking his two-year contract. He spent three seasons at Renault, but fell out with the team, which he felt had blamed him for their failure to win a world championship, and returned to McLaren in 1984 missing out on the world championship by half a point to his teammate Niki Lauda. Over the next 2 seasons he won back-to-back world championships in 1985 and 1986. In 1988, Ayrton Senna joined McLaren as Prost's teammate, and the pair developed an intense rivalry which featured race incidents and collisions occurring between the two. Prost secured his third world championship with McLaren in 1989, but switched to Ferrari for the 1990 season. [1] He missed out on the world championship that season after Senna intentionally crashed into him during the penultimate race of the year. [2] After an unsuccessful year in 1991, Prost was critical of the Ferrari team, and had his contract terminated. After a year out, he joined Williams for 1993, winning his fourth and final world championship. [1]

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Prost achieved his first victory in Formula One on home soil at the 1981 French Grand Prix on 5 July. [3] His second win, at the Dutch Grand Prix later that season, was described as one of his best according to Graham Keilloh of Motor Sport magazine, who said he "was faultless under the most pitiless pressure." [4] He won nine races during his three seasons with Renault, and won a record-equalling seven races during his first season back with McLaren, [3] when he missed out on the Formula One world championship by half a point from his teammate Niki Lauda. [5] Over the next two seasons, he won nine races as he won back-to-back championship titles, and in 1987 he set a new record for the most Grand Prix wins, passing Jackie Stewart's total of 27. In 1988 he was once again the championship runner-up, despite winning seven races, establishing an intense rivalry with his teammate, Ayrton Senna. Prost won four times in 1989 as he claimed the world championship for the third time, and then won five races the following season with Ferrari. The 1991 season was the first since his debut year in 1980 that Prost did not achieve a race win. After missing the 1992 season, Prost won seven races in 1993 to claim his fourth world championship. [1] His final win in Formula One came at the 1993 German Grand Prix. [3]

In all, Prost won 51 Grands Prix at 24 different circuits, currently ranking him fifth in the all-time Formula One Grand Prix winners' list. He was most successful at Silverstone and Jacarepaguá, winning five times at both. The majority of his wins (31) were for McLaren; he also won 9 races with Renault, 7 for Williams and 5 with Ferrari. His most successful races were the Brazilian and French Grands Prix, each of which he won six times. [3]

Wins

Key:

Grand Prix victories [3]
No.RaceDateSeasonGrand PrixCircuitGridMarginTeamEngineChassisRef
1215 July 1981 1981 French Dijon-Prenois 30:02.290 Renault Renault RE30 [6]
22530 August 1981 Dutch Circuit Park Zandvoort 10:08.240 [7]
32613 September 1981 Italian Autodromo Nazionale di Monza 30:22.175 [8]
42923 January 1982 1982 South African Kyalami 50:14.946 RE30B [9]
53021 March 1982 Brazilian Jacarepaguá 10:02.990 [10]
64717 April 1983 1983 French Circuit Paul Ricard 10:29.720 RE40 [11]
75022 May 1983 Belgian Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 10:23.182 [12]
85316 July 1983 British Silverstone Circuit 30:19.161 [13]
95514 August 1983 Austrian Österreichring 50:06.835 [14]
106025 March 1984 1984 Brazilian Jacarepaguá 40:40.514 McLaren TAG MP4/2 [15]
11636 May 1984 San Marino Autodromo Dino Ferrari 20:13.416 [16]
12653 June 1984 Monaco Circuit de Monaco 10:07.446 [17]
13705 August 1984 German Hockenheimring 10:03.149 [18]
147226 August 1984 Dutch Circuit Park Zandvoort 10:10.283 [19]
15747 October 1984 European Nürburgring 20:23.911 [20]
167521 October 1984 Portuguese Autódromo do Estoril 20:13.425 [21]
17767 April 1985 1985 † Brazilian Jacarepaguá 60:03.259 MP4/2B [22]
187919 May 1985 Monaco Circuit de Monaco 50:07.541 [23]
198321 July 1985 British Silverstone Circuit 31 lap [24]
208518 August 1985 Austrian Österreichring 10:30.002 [25]
21878 September 1985 Italian Autodromo Nazionale di Monza 50:51.635 [26]
229427 April 1986 1986 † San Marino Autodromo Dino Ferrari 40:07.645 MP4/2C [27]
239511 May 1986 Monaco Circuit de Monaco 10:25.022 [28]
2410317 August 1986 Austrian Österreichring 51 lap [29]
2510726 October 1986 Australian Adelaide Street Circuit 40:04.205 [30]
2610812 April 1987 1987 Brazilian Jacarepaguá 50:40.547 MP4/3 [31]
2711017 May 1987 Belgian Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 60:24.764 [32]
2811920 September 1987 Portuguese Autódromo do Estoril 30:20.493 [33]
291243 April 1988 1988 Brazilian Jacarepaguá 30:09.873 Honda MP4/4 [34]
3012615 May 1988 Monaco Circuit de Monaco 20:20.453 [35]
3112729 May 1988 Mexican Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez 20:07.104 [36]
321303 July 1988 French Circuit Paul Ricard 10:31.752 [37]
3313625 September 1988 Portuguese Autódromo do Estoril 10:09.553 [38]
341372 October 1988 Spanish Circuito de Jerez 20:26.232 [39]
3513913 November 1988 Australian Adelaide Street Circuit 20:36.787 [40]
361444 June 1989 1989 † United States Phoenix street circuit 20:39.696 MP4/5 [41]
371469 July 1989 French Circuit Paul Ricard 10:44.017 [42]
3814716 July 1989 British Silverstone Circuit 20:19.369 [43]
3915110 September 1989 Italian Autodromo Nazionale di Monza 40:07.326 [44]
4015725 March 1990 1990 Brazilian Autódromo José Carlos Pace 60:13.564 Ferrari Ferrari 641 [45]
4116124 June 1990 Mexican Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez 130:25.351 [46]
421628 July 1990 French Circuit Paul Ricard 40:08.626 [47]
4316315 July 1990 British Silverstone Circuit 50:39.092 [48]
4416930 September 1990 Spanish Circuito de Jerez 20:22.064 [49]
4518714 March 1993 1993 † South African Kyalami 11:19.824 Williams Renault FW15C [50]
4619025 April 1993 San Marino Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari 10:32.410 [51]
471919 May 1993 Spanish Circuit de Catalunya 10:16.873 [52]
4819313 June 1993 Canadian Circuit Gilles Villeneuve 10:14.527 [53]
491944 July 1993 French Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours 20:00.342 [54]
5019511 July 1993 British Silverstone Circuit 10:07.660 [55]
5119625 July 1993 German Hockenheimring 10:16.664 [56]

Number of wins at different Grands Prix

Prost racing for McLaren in 1988 Alain Prost 1988 Canada.jpg
Prost racing for McLaren in 1988
Prost racing for Ferrari in 1991 AlainProst Ferrari 1991-2.jpg
Prost racing for Ferrari in 1991
Victories at different Grands Prix
No.Grand PrixYears wonWins
1 Brazilian Grand Prix 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990 6
French Grand Prix 1981, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993
3 British Grand Prix 1983, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1993 5
4 Monaco Grand Prix 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 4
5 Austrian Grand Prix 1983, 1985, 1987 3
Portuguese Grand Prix 1985, 1987, 1988
Italian Grand Prix 1981, 1985, 1989
San Marino Grand Prix 1984, 1986, 1993
Spanish Grand Prix 1988, 1990, 1993
10 Dutch Grand Prix 1981, 1984 2
Belgian Grand Prix 1983, 1987
Australian Grand Prix 1986, 1988
Mexican Grand Prix 1988, 1990
South African Grand Prix 1982, 1993
German Grand Prix 1984, 1993
16 European Grand Prix 1984 1
United States Grand Prix 1989
Canadian Grand Prix 1993
Total number of Grand Prix wins:51

Number of wins at different circuits

Victories at different circuits
No.CircuitYears wonWins
1 Jacarepaguá 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988 5
Silverstone Circuit 1983, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1993
3 Circuit de Monaco 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 4
Circuit Paul Ricard 1983, 1988, 1989, 1990
5 Österreichring 1983, 1985, 1986 3
Autódromo do Estoril 1984, 1987, 1988
Autodromo Nazionale di Monza 1981, 1985, 1989
Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari 1984, 1986, 1993
9 Circuit Park Zandvoort 1981, 1984 2
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 1983, 1987
Adelaide Street Circuit 1986, 1988
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez 1988, 1990
Circuito de Jerez 1988, 1990
Kyalami 1982, 1993
Hockenheimring 1984, 1993
16 Dijon-Prenois 1981 1
Nürburgring 1984
Phoenix street circuit 1989
Autódromo José Carlos Pace 1990
Circuit de Catalunya 1993
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve 1993
Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours 1993
Total number of Grand Prix wins:51

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