Pretty much 90% of what Prost said and what he went through, can literally be seen in Ferrari today. Prost wanted to make Ferrari run more like McLaren which was an amazing organisation under Ron Dennis, and Ferrari need a leader like that now who will tell it like it is and perhaps could emulate the way Mercedes run their team. In the end Prost was laughing when he went to Williams and won his 4th title

“Stand outside Ferrari and you’ll wonder how they don’t win everything. Stand inside Ferrari and you’ll wonder how they win anything.”

Now Ferrari is a clown and Sainz is heading into a hellhole

Ferrari in trouble, so their only answer was to fire the only person in the team that remembered winning. Sound familiar?

All things aside, that 643 is looking absolutely stunning

Seems like Ferrari is permanently in crisis management mode even to this day.

Sounds like typical Ferrari

Sooo… nothing has changed has it…? I mean I tell everybody that Schumacher's brilliance wasn't just on track but in how he managed to 'transform' Ferrari into a winning team bringing key people with him from Bennetton but people only like to se the numbers instead…

Had the pleasure of meeting Alain Prost at Silvertstone in 1993. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny.

Went to Williams and won another title in Ferrari's face

I recall a classic Gerhard Berger quote after Prost had been sacked which for me summed up the Ferrari logic. He said that Prost was the only person who could save Ferrari and they were currently paying him millions NOT to work for them.......

Does anyone think any of this has changed? Except that Vettel is too polite to say anything...

"The problem with Ferrari sometimes is there's too much Ferrari in Ferrari" ~ Flavio Briatore

I mean, the biggest reasons for Ferrari's downfall in at any given point is that it's a more of a political organisation than a racing team. Ferrari's own worst enemy is pretty much always Ferrari.

Additional note : -When Montezemolo came back as president of Ferrari, one of his first decision was to...bring Prost back to Ferrari. Just a couple of weeks after they sacked him... Prost declined, obviously. - Prost said he compared the steering of his Ferrari to a truck, not the Ferrari itself but the italian press made a bigger story about it (as always). But when Prost went to court against Ferrari for unfair dismissal, they apparently lost the video of the interview...

Wow, reminds me of this year... Like getting rid of Arrivabene for Binotto when Arrivabene had lead them to probably the best 2 seasons Ferrari have had in a decade. What a joke. Edit: Saying this as a life long Ferrari fan. And they are going to waste the careers of probably one of the greatest talents in a long time in Leclerc and a solid reliable driver in Sainz. Criminal.

Just by seeing what happened to Ferrari the following year, 1992, it is obvious who was right and who was very wrong. Ferrari in '88-'92 was rife with political struggles within the Fiat group to fill the power vacuum left by Enzo Ferrari in the F1 team. Ferrari was not worthy of Prost and Barnard, as simple as that. The main "if only" is what would have happened had the 643 been ready for the start of '91. Probably a few race wins and a less poisonous atmosphere, similar to 1990.

Carlos Sainz be like: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN!

Drivers age at twice the rate when they're with Ferrari.

Prost took a year off and came back to win the F1 title with Williams in 1993. Retired on top.

theres an old saying in the UK ... Italian tanks have 1 forward gear and 10 reverse gears

Let’s hope history repeats itself and Sebastian wins his 5th title with Aston Martin.

The main problem with Ferrari is that it's run emotionally rather than rationally.

Which of these is more probable? Statistically the greatest driver at the time, being wrong. Or An incompetent car

Prost was right. He literally went from Ferrari to Williams and put the smackdaddy on the 1993 season and won the WDC again to rub it in Ferraris face.

In the loooong history of Ferrari only 5 names became world champion after they drove for the Scuderia. (Fangio, Andretti, Lauda, Prost and Mansell) Chances are if you drive for Ferrari and you dont win the WDC, you’re done.

As an Italian who left the country 8 years ago, i can say that Ferrari resembles the static mentality of Italy and its people: "I'm always right", "it's not my fault", "bad luck is the reason of my failures. I never make mistakes", "I want to get the most, giving 0 effort".

Prost : " The cars handles like a truck " Guys on the suits at Ferrari : " So you have chosen DEATH "

This made me appreciate and respect Prost even more! The "Crisis of optimism" was a brilliant statement by him. Incredibly relevant for many things in life.

I love how Prost said every problem of Ferrari and they just did nothing and fired him. And now just look at Ferrari today .... probably 90% of what he said is still here. I'm glad that Todt was able to apply what Prost said, but he is not here anymore

alain was a technology tester. he was the only driver qualified to test the top tech that they were developing. he bounced around teams, just at the right time to drive the cars that were most experimental, and paved the future of f1, all except the william's active suspension.

Wow that relationship really was doomed. I didn’t realise what a mess it was before he called it a truck!

No matter how slow it was, but the look of that 643 is just 🤤

Prost foreshadowing 2020

Next topic: Did Vettel get a lucky escape in 2020?

I consider Prost to be the most complete driver of all time and not listening to him when he has so many complaints means that you are doomed to fail. Jean Todt, Ross Brawn and Michael Schumacher restructured Ferrari to such an extend that one cannot consider it as a traditional Ferrari team and that brought huge success. When these three left the team started slowly but surely sliding back to their old ways. Today we see the epitome of the results of Ferrari mismanagement

I still think he is underrated and shown as a villain by a lot of sources

If Prost had his way since 1990, Ferrari would've won that championship and have a car to fight for another in 91.

I really do not see why drivers would ever want to drive for ferrari. The team is ran on so much politics it is insane. No driver has ever been happy there

Hi everyone, thanks for watching. If you'd like to hear more about Prost being fired by Ferrari, check out our Bring Back V10s classic F1 podcast! Prost fired part 1: www.spreaker.com/episode/23986632 | Prost fired part 2: www.spreaker.com/episode/24092488

so basically in the early 90‘s the same things were wrong like today

To continue the comparison to more modern F1 - when Prost joined Mansell at Ferrari for 1990 it was similar to when Alonso joined Massa in 2010. Prost, like Alonso, was a multiple World Champion and the superior driver at most races. What Mansell did to Prost in Portugal in 1990 (swerving across Prost at the start and ruining Prost's race even though Prost was in a title fight) would have been the equivalent of Massa getting the "Fernando is faster than you" message in Germany 2010 and, instead of letting Alonso by, drove him off the circuit instead. With proper team support Prost would have won the title for Ferrari in 1990 but Mansell's ego was too fragile.

FERRARI RUINED DRIVERS: Alain Prost Phil Hill John Surtees Felipe Massa Jean Alesi Rubens Barrichelo Fernando Alonso Kimi Raikonmen Sebastian Vettel RIP LEGENDS😭

Ferrari and politics - they go together and yet it is the one thing that consistently sets Ferrari back.

"Team without directive and without strategy..." It sounds like the Ferrari of the past 3 to 4, or more (sans the Schumacher/Barrichello/Todt years), years.

The car handled like a truck- that’s ballsy

Off course they were wrong. But yes only two drivers who managed to change team culture, Lauda & Schumacher, and sadly after them gone, team culture back to "default setting": totally disconnected with drivers during development and then slaving drivers to control the cars.

I mean you could tell something was up during the end of the Schumacher era when there were people in the Italian press complaining that Ferrari no longer felt like it was an Italian team because there were very few Italians left and Ferrari post-Montezemolo were hugely reactionary and went down that road and I think we've seen what happens. Prost also should share his part of the blame because his comments were getting extremely insufferable (mirroring the situation he was in) so there was no way that he was helping the situation. It's just a shame it didn't work out but Ferrari is a toxic place to be in - and having Nigel Mansell as your team-mate can also be a pain in the arse so it was never going to be enjoyable.

I have to say it - the 641/2, in my opinion, was the most beautiful F1 car every designed by mankind.

My heart sank when he said "nearly 30 years ago"

I always grew up a blind senna fan, only now do I see how Prost was also one of the top 5 drivers of all time. Ps: 10 minutes of looking at photos of the 643 has been a pleasure hahahah

OMG those were beautiful cars back then! So sleek and ”clean” looking compared to today’s overloaded monsters. I miss those times...

Still hating Mansell for screwing up the Portuguese GP in 1990...

I know many don't like Prost but you can't deny he was a hell of a driver. I miss the Senna, Mansel, Prost days. Real characters driving and both cars and drivers had personality. Also. That 7up liveried Jordan 191...isnt that just the best looking F1 car ever!

Most of the stuff mentioned hasn't changed.

Ferrari will never change. The politics, the poor management and the often-made accusation that there are too many chiefs in the place. Their golden era when Michael Schumacher arrived did not come until his fifth year with the team and with his own key personnel at that ( by whom I mean Brawn, Todt, et al ). One only has to look at them now. With Alain Prost and Fernando Alonso, they should have cleaned up. Instead they allowed themselves to be taken to the cleaners. It's such a sad waste and a waste of the talent of some of the greatest drivers ever in the sport. When Jody Sheckter signed with the team, I recall Jackie Stewart remarked when asked that Ferrari was not the team he would go to by choice. Despite Sheckter's solus and gifted title ( because Giles Villeneuve should have been the champion ) in 1979, Stewart's comments hold true to this day.

That ferrari looked and sounded beautiful. Ferrari f640-f643

Ferrari were on a downward spiral from 91 onwards. I don’t think Prost as a driver could have done anything to stop that. A clean sweep at the top was need and that’s what happened with Tolt coming on board, but even then it took years to rebuild.

I was gutted when Mansell left Ferrari at the end of 1990.Wheras it was the smartest move he made.

All this instability within the team is poisonous. Look at Ferrari nowadays, the exact same thing is happening, changing personnel on a whim and not giving them time to build the team. You can't bring in new people and suddenly get to the top, they will be too inexperienced, which is why Ferrari is struggling right now. Just look at how many bosses they threw out. In just 3 years they went from Domenically to Mattiaci and then arrivabene and as things were looking to gradually improve the went and changed things up again, in just 3 YEARS. And we can all see the result....

Being a Ferrari fan and Italian I was too young to remember the struggles of the 90s and the political mess Ferrari were going through. A lot of people don't seem to understand that not long ago Enzo Farrari had passed and before the great man left us it was his way of running things or nothing mentality and I think Luca Di Montezomolo wanted to replicate the great man philosophy but with the Agnelli family (FIAT) becoming more involved it always difficult recreate what Enzo had done for decades before his passing. I became a fan from 95 onwards what Jean Todt and Luca did was very risky and expensive because getting a driver like Michael Schumacher from Benetton when he was winning titles against a very good Williams team you must back it up with a car that can win titles. I think Michael knew it was going to be a challenge and that's why he went but I don't think he understood the history and traditions behind it in his early start at Ferrari it took him a few years maybe the first title at Ferrari in 2000 when he finally understood the meaning of being a Ferrari driver. That being said I think Prost wanted that at Ferrari after his departure in a bitter way at Mclaren with Ron and Senna and wanted to prove them what he is capable of without Mclaren. If Prost had Todt and Brawn in the team I think the Schumacher era would have happened much earlier than 96-2006.

Carlos Sianz : write that shit down. 😂

I am not a Prost fan at all, but he did know how F1 worked almost better than anyone at the time.

When Ross Brawn took over the team he made it mandatory that the language among the team be ENGLISH. The Italians are very emotional by nature and sometimes that’s an issue. Now that McLaren is finding its feet Sainz may join the list of “ used to drive for Ferrari” drivers which would be a shame. How many chiefs have this team had in the last 5 years. No stability. This is a terrible shame because they are legends. Only time will tell.

Prost was a good organiser. He wasn't as focused on just driving as Senna was. He was very influencial in the technical and administrative functions. Maybe too loyal. Probably his biggest mistake was buying Ligier when it was already on the way down and depending on promises of politicians to ensure financial backing. Still one of the best drivers ever

A lot of what he tried to do was put in place later on. how do you say that and then say maybe he was right it's not maybe it's he was right A lot of what he tried to do was use later on, on a extremely dominant team

PC language affects on describing a Ferrari F1 car. Lauda - 1973 - “Sh-.” Prost - 1991 - “truck”. Vettel - 2020 - too muzzled by PR handlers to say anything not run thru a legal team first.

If they had listened to him, Prost could have built a powerhouse there.

i think half of Ferraris problem is everyone in management thinks the teams the best and will never hear any negative comments

prost was right from the beginning

Prost was right about his Ferrai experience. It was a very sad one in his carreer !

Impulsiveness has no place in a technical sport/work place. This is why Mercedes is such a powerhouse. They don't relax when things are good, they don't let tension build, they are very transparent. "This is why things are the way they are and we all need to get on top of it. Your personal dramas are not for the work place. We need everyone to work together to maximize productivity." That's their attitude in a nutshell.

Prost: "The car drives like a truck" Ferrari: You're fired

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This appeared in my recommended and it’s only been 22 minutes

Yesss more like this plz!! Love history

If Alain Prost was driving for you and you weren't winning, the problem was NOT the driver! The only reason Ferrari won with Schumi was that he brought half of Benetton along for the ride. They managed to change the culture...for a while.

Can you do one about Hill being fired by Williams?

so when's season 2 of the bring back v10s podcast?

Remember Prost was great at setting up the cars. He also had a great mentor Lauda who taught him even more about setup. It was Lauda that turned Ferrari around in the 70's. I remember watching F1 during those times and Ferrari had issues and was never consistent. We can all play "What if" with this scenario. In all sports it takes great people to accomplish great results. All sports teams go in cycles of winning their respective championships.

It always makes me a strange effect to me seeing n.27 both on Prost's and Gilles' Ferraris, two such different drivers having the same number... History is anyway repeating, it's absurd to see how we haven't learnt from the errors of the past... Why we always have to have these long droughts? We should have learnt from the previous two...

Can we get a video about Jean Todt and those masterclass years please?

He was fired twice once by Renault and Ferrari

The race is a world apart and in a different class than what autosport is putting out recently... autosport is terrible with who they have on their team right now and long may it last... keep it up the race.

Good content 😎

Seeing today how talented Prost is to lead a team (Prost ACer already could have been really successful if many things didnt go wrong) Ferrari definatley should have listened more to him but then maybe they wouldnt have brought in di Montezemolo

Based on the podcast on the subject (which I loved and re-listen to often), this video will be a good one.

Loving these type of videos where a major story from the past is broken down in detail. I’d love to hear about stories from the late 70s as well!

Nice vidéo, thanks!

An element to add in the problem is that Ferrari had lost Enzo just two years before, then there is no wonder why the team was so bad structured.

Ferrari are their own worst enemy. It sucks for Vettel because his nostalgia blinded him to the fact that it was Schumacher and his entourage who made Ferrari the beastly contender that it was back in the day, not the actual Italians in the team. I don't see things going any better for Leclerc in the future.

Top tip: a thick, winter sock, can be used as an improvised pop-filter on a microphone.

Ask Enrique Scalabroni for more information about this since you didn´t mention him here. He also left the team when he was main designer of Ferrari in 1990. This video would make much more sense.

Alain Prost is just awesome!

Would have been great for prost to be wdc but the Italians don't like criticism as I've found out working with them and it's a shame that Ferrari have a revolving management style and a dirty habit of chucking out drivers that alleged to be past their best and I can't them getting things sorted out and the driver to be champion was raikkonen so it says a lot.

Only 2 drivers have won the WDC in the past 40 years for Ferrari, says a lot about their management. If Prost had the team/framework The Michael had he could've been 6x or 7x WDC no doubt.

Imagine the scenes after Ferrari dropping Seb that the team he joins next year wins the title in 22

all said and done that 1990 car is so god damm beautiful

Mansell and testing??? Mansell was more interested to test new golf clubs instead of his F1 car that´s why he was the first one on the golf course and also the 1st one to leave the race track!

Lauda : this thing is a piece of shit Ferrari : you cant say that!!! Lauda : why? Ferrari : its a ferrari!!! "rush movie"