Prost's longevity is so underrated. He's normally associated with the late 80s/early 90s era due to his battles with Senna, but he was also super competitive in the early 80s Turbo era battling with Lauda, Piquet, Arnoux etc. which seems like a completely different time.

One of the craziest stats about Prost is that he was only 12.5 points away from being an 8x champion, and 29.5 away from being a 10x champion.

They called him "The Professor" for a reason, he frequently outsmarted drivers and made great decisions on track, he was very methodical and invested in the cars he drove. Plus the fact he bought Ligier and had his own team later on to try and put France on the top again is respectable!

I met Prost as a kid, when he visited the Phillip Morris factory, where his championship winning car was on display. (they make Marlboro) My mom worked there and managed to sneak me into the guest room so i could meet him there, i remember him as a really friendly man, and he gave me a small model of his race car. (still have it) I had started watching F1 as a kid because of my mother working for the tobacco brand so i automatically was rooting for them, ever since i've been a fan of the sport.

Will always baffle me why people don't rate Prost highly enough, he's one of the greatest pilots the sports has ever seen. Lauda, Senna, Mansell, these are just some of the team mates he had over the years and look at how he carried himself, absolutely incredible driver. That 90 season with Ferrari was one of his best seasons.

I think because so many people loved and idolised senna that they looked at his great drives and wins but didn’t appreciate the times he lost which was to Alain most of the time

As a young F1 fan in the mid 90s and a huge Schumacher fan to boot, I underrated Alain Prost severely because I read in a few places that he was cowardly in the rain. When I learned more about his career and his method as a driver I started to appreciate him more. But here is the most impressive stat about Prost's career & it's not the fact that he could have won 7 or eight championships with a slightly different points system or even that he faced the most formidable teammates ever. The most impressive statistic about Prost is that during his career he suffered 41 mechanical DNFs whereas his teammates (in the same cars) suffered 73 DNFs. It is statistically impossible that this was down due to Prost being lucky, but it's clearly down to Prost being so much smoother in his driving style that he managed to finish 32 extra GPs compared to the great rivals he faced as teammates (that is two entire extra seasons by the standards of the 80s and early 90s) No other driver can boast of any similar statistic in the history of F1.

Because he’s French

As a Brazilian I can't think of a better rival for senna than prost, they are completely opposites and at the same time complementary, each one of them could be undoubtedly be seen as the greatest of all time if was not the other...

He's not underappreciated, he's just not dead. The Professor will be missed when that sad day comes

Ironically, here in Brazil Prost is extremely respected. I agree with you, perhaps he is less remembered for adopting a very clean and precise style, with little passion in driving. Prost knew exactly what he had to do to earn points and was always racing with the championship in mind.

Over the past few weeks I have re watched every F1 race from 88 and just started the first race of 93. Prost, particularly the last part of his career had to race against some very tough competition. Senna, Mansell, Damon Hill, Schumacher, Piquet all champions. The fact he was even in contention for the 90 championship considering Senna was in a better car for most of the circuits they raced on is a testament in itself. The man is truly underappreciated, mostly because of how he has been portrayed in relation to Senna. Give the man his flowers now, don't wait until he passes away.

Prost is the casualty of F1's fan culture and perceptions of intelligent drivers. He is a prime example of a driver that doesn't need to drive like a lunatic to be passionate about what he does.

Alan Prost may be one o a very few person on this world that can come to Brazil and be respected by all......we miss you Alan, came visit us.

In my humble opinion, one of the smoothest drivers ever at the wheel of an F1 car. And that sympathy for the equipment brought him big dividends

To think that this guy still is in the paddock and roams almost alone is heartbreaking!

Always loved prost, he was such a good driver. He fought for the title for most of his career, and would have given renault a title if they hadn't gotten too cocky and stopped developing the car. Then helped mclaren building the myth it was back then, he narrowly missed the title with ferrari in his 1st year, and won with williams He was an amazing developer, that's also why he always had such good cars. Had he stayed in Williams, he may have won 2 other titles, or even more

Prost was an excellent strategist, for instance, in Silverstone 85, he knew Senna wasn't going to have enough fuel to keep up first, so he waited. Also Prost learned from others. In 84, he was on pole more times than Lauda, while Lauda recovered from th back an won races and the championship. A year later we saw a Prost doing the same, winning from the back, waiting for the others to fail, winning the WDC at Brands Hatch not even fighting for first. He made it look so easy that people don't like him, also he was honest when talking about the cars, something that Ferrari fans would never forgive.

You gotta realize, Prost was one of if not the greatest driver in the 80s era of F1, outsmarting drivers like Mansell, Senna, Piquet, Lauda all those greats we all know and love. Hell, in his final F1 Season, he won the championship, it shows the talent of Le Professor

Under the current points system, Prost never lost to a teammate over the course of a season (yes, including Senna). That weird rule about the FIA only picking your best X race finishes from a season held him back from being talked about in the same breath as Schumacher and Hamilton. He was untouchable on his day. Stole this data from a comment on a TommoF1 video: Prost has NEVER lost to any teammate (5 WDCs) under today's scoring system 2x - John Watson 1980 (+24 points), 1985 (+6 points) 2x - Rene Arnoux 1981 (+74 points), 1982 (+34 points) 1x - Eddie Cheever 1983 (+102 points) 2x - Niki Lauda 1984 (+3.5 points), 1985 (+162 points) 1x - Keke Rosberg 1986 (+147 points) 1x - Stefan Johansson 1987 (+29 points) 2x - Ayrton Senna 1988 (+31 points), 1989 (+73 points) 1x - Nigel Mansell 1990 (+108 points) 1x - Jean Alesi 1991 (+32 points) 1x - Damon Hill 1993 (+69 points)

He was the most successful driver in F1‘s most competitive era. Considering that era had Senna, Piquet, Mansell, Keke Rosberg Lauda, Hill and Schumi that is no mean feat at all. His ultra smooth driving style was both fast and effective, allowing him to get the most out of the machinery he was given. It’s interesting to note that all the multiple world championship drivers since mimic his racing style and ethos more than they do Sennas. The main strength to Hamilton and Verstappen is that both of them know when NOT to push and how to get the best reliability from their cars, not just the best performance on pace alone.

He was named "Le Professeur". He was so good in mathematically studying tracks and executing the race based on that. Underrated? not to me - he is one of the GREATS of F1 of the past 50 years !!

Yes I would agree with Prost but also think Sir Jack Brabham was really underrated as well, Like he really won a world title with his very own team.

FINALLY!! Thanks so much for saying what I've thought for years. Prost's championships were won against five past, current, and future world champions. Nobody since then has had a higher level of quality teammates to race against.

Everybody talks about Senna like he was unbeatable, but no one mentions that Prost outscored him in both of their seasons as teammates. I mean in one way Senna was unbelievable over one lap, but sometimes he would do more than required and Monaco 1988 is the perfect example.Qualified 1.5 seconds faster, created a 1 minute gap, BUT he shunted the car into the wall for no reason at all. So yes Senna was the fastest driver, but Prost would deliver as consistently as any other great driver in F1 history(Alonso is the one of the modern era that is the most similar to him)

That Senna documentary (and life since 1994) does paint Senna as an innocent and perfect saint, only 3rd to Jesus himself and Lewis Hamilton, while omitting his obvious character flaws. The ending did soften Prost's villainous portrayal tho.

As a massive Prost fan, thank you for putting this content out there

That stat about Senna being team-mates with Lauda, Piquet, Rosberg, Senna and Hill without loosing a single inter-team battle under the modern points system surely says it all. He may not have been as big a personality as Senna, or as good at qualifying 1st, but he was probably the best all-round driver of the 80s/90s and perhaps all time. 7 potential championships in àn era where multiple teams can win and your team-mate is also a multiple champion is insane.

Alain is one of the top 5 F1 drivers of all time- easily. No driver applied intelligence better to his racing than Prost- no one. It's easy to underappreciate Alain because he was an unspectacular driver who drove in such a way that made it look so easy- he made those 1,300 hp+ manual turbo monsters look so easy to drive, you'd think your Grandma could drive them. Prost wasn't in-your-face great- he was great in a way that was harder to understand. And also in 1988, the scoring system was really strange- only the best 11 of 16 results counted. If that didn't exist, then Prost would have been champion with 105 points to Senna's 94. And the Senna documentary- Prost wasn't the bad guy so much as the rival. Balestre was the bad guy.

Excellent. Highlighting the quality of his team-mates is essential in understanding just how good Prost was. 3 of his 4 World Titles were won with a World Champion team-mate (Lauda 85, Rosberg 86, Senna 89) and the 4th with a future World Champion (Hill 1993). Allez Alain!

Let me remind you that this guy had René Arnoux, Nikki Lauda, Kéké Rosberg, Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill as teammates, he beat them all in different context and different team! Let me remind you that this guy won 51 races in arguably the most competitive era of the history of the sport. Let me remind you that this guy won a WC against the 1986 Williams driven by Piquet and Mansell, which is (for the newbies) the equivalent of beating Merc at the peak of their power during the Rosberg-Hamilton era. Let me also remind you that this guy would've been a 7 times world champion with current point system. Finally, let me remind you that this guy is the only pre-2000s driver that is still among the top spots in nearly every statistics. For me, he is the GOAT!

Between 1983 and 1990 (Except 1987, du to the weakness of Mclaren), Prost has always been involved in a title fight. Which is a very great performance.

I’ve always said that Prost was the greatest f1 driver ever to drive an f1 car. I’ve worked as an F1 mechanic in the late 80s to early 90s so I was fortunate to be there and see him race along with the other greats and he was so gifted. Every year he was fighting for the championship 😊

I always say that you should measure a driver by their performance against their team mate as you get an idea of what that car was capable of. What he did at Ferrari was brilliant, challenging Senna in a great McLaren. He was a true great

Ive always been a Prost Fan before Senna. When you look at he's stats and just how little he DNF due to his own mistakes and points scored its amazing He was in title fights an incredible amount of years during his career with or without the best car. If you watch the entire 88-89 season of F1 he the got the best of Senna in the same car, many times by just being patient and attacking at the right moment. These highlights rarely get shown. He was the master of saving tires and even Fuel for just when they were needed

Prost is the epitome of a Grand Prix driver, the complete package. He could easily be regarded as the GOAT. To me, it's between him and Schumi, could go either way...

Many things about Prost have already been said, the fact he is a 4 times WC, the fact he was 12.5 points of being and 8 times WC, the fact he beat 5 (future) WCs as teammates, the fact he had way fewer mechanical DNFs than his rivals and so on. I do feel like another aspect that is often overlooked and/or underappreciated is his longevity as a top driver and his willingness and ability to adapt to pretty much any team, car and situation. He came into the sport when Turbo were on the rise. He put in some amazing drives as a youngster for Renault, using their turbo engines to great effect when they didn't blow up, which brought him within 2 points of the 1983 Championship. Then he returned to McLaren as the 2nd driver, completing legend Niki Lauda and learner a lot from him and they had 2 amazing fights for the Championship with Prost beating Lauda in 1985 after coming close in 1984. After Lauda left, he became the new leader of the team and won another Championship against the vastly superior Williams of Mansell and Piquet and got a respectable 4th place in 1987. Turbos got banned after 1987 and Prost urged Ron Dennis to get Senna over the rest because he clearly saw his potential. The McLaren MP 4/4 was one of the most dominant F1 cars of all time, but Prost got the hang of it and was able to outscore Senna even if the later got the title. In 1989 he struck back and got the title against a ferocious Senna. After that he left and found himself in an absolutely atrocious Ferrari and a wild Mansell as teammate. The fact he even dragged that thing to be a Championship contender is a miracle in itself and another testimony to his skill. In 1991, he simply had no chance and rightfully tore Ferrari a new one, and he still finished 5 overall. After being out for a year, he came back for one final time in what is most likely the most advanced F1 car we've ever seen. Many of the older drivers struggled with the rise of the Turbos during the 80es and then the rise of technological advancement in the early 90es. Not so Prost, he got the hang of that spaceship within a few races and drove it to one final Hurrah before retiring for good. So yeah, Prose raced for 4 different teams during his career, all of his 10 teammates were, podium finishers, 8 of them were race winners, 5 of them were champions, he outscored them all and never finished worse than 5th outside his debut season, during 3 different eras of F1 and with one of the most competitive grids we have ever seen. I've rarely seen a driver being so consistent and competitive, no matter the circumstances. Even the likes of Schumacher and Hamilton had years when they struggled with rule changes, a new team or just had to play catch up. Or if we look at Prosts eternal rival Senna. He was quick at Toleman and Lotus, but he lacked the constancy to really be a WDC contender. His 1990 and 91 titles were partially won cause, while he was still quick and rutheless, he did adapt some of Prosts philosophy to become more consistent himself. After Williams rose again in 1992 and 1993, he struggled to keep pace. And while sadly we haven't seen much of his time a Williams, the start of the 1994 season is clear evidence that he struggled to bring out the full potential of the WIlliams. Prost rarely had such struggles, he simply adapted and kept being a threat.

Prost my favorite driver since I started to watch F1 as a kid with my uncle back in 1985. We had a battle since he was a senna fan, and I was a Prost fan

Prost has to be one to be in the top 2 greatest drivers with Fangio.

Definitely the right thumbnail there. Great and excellently directed that documentary film was, it unquestionably did a lot of damage towards Prost's legacy and a lot of fans at the time that weren't from that period of time as well the Media latched onto it and began to question his greatness as a result of it. I mean it basically portrays him as the straight villain.

There’s an amazing doc on KZfaq following Prost’s season at Williams. Have so much respect for him as a driver. He was brilliant! And truth is he was more realistic of the dangers of F1 at the time than senna, hence his calculated approach of being fast but not exceeding the limits of the machinery. Senna would push 100 all the time, while Prost would push hard but not want to risk possible death.

My dad was a great fan of him so he always told me his greatness. Eventually growing up I understood Prost's legacy and I'm shocked that very few people name him when talking about the most talented drivers ever

I would very much agree with you, and I think you have put across a very good argument for Prost and his mentality when racing. He was known as the professor, for very good reason. He would race at whatever pace was required to win, and he won a lot during his career, so cannot ever be underestimated. His association with Senna was both caustic and revealing, after all he was invited by the family to be one of the pall bearers at Ayrton’s funeral, so there was real respect there between them I believe.

Totally agree...as a kid or my parents never were prost fans,but now as a more mature fan and a wannabe sim racer i appreciate Prost the most pre my era... litteraly reminds me of Alonso pre Alonso

I have him as the GOAT, that 1986 season was probably the best individual season performance ever in F1

Prost was sublime. Check his teammates :he beat them all. As to his record it's simply incredible.

Prost is by far my favorite driver of the 80's and early 90's. Dude drove well in 3 distinct eras. His nickname is apt, he drove fast and steady, nothing flashy and his personality is...subdued. He was overshadowed by by Lauda and Senna, because of their large personas.

One of the best videos I’ve seen in a long time on F1, and I watch a few a day. Prost’s interview with Nico Rosberg which I think was about a year ago gave me great respect for him. I was not his fan during his career because his driving style was not exciting. I was a huge Mansell fan, and continue to be. For me the 80s was the greatest era in Formula One. So many really good champions racing against each other and the money wasn’t outrageous. This is a fine video and it raised my level of appreciation for Prost. I’m not a sports person in general but I’m an F1 fanatic. It’s been fun to follow for decades. I will share this with my buddies, especially the ones who were not into F1 in the 20th century, especially the wills turbo era which I loved, would tape races on my Sony Betamax, and watch them again while editing for the next event. So I’m the days off 16 races, I typically watched 32 times.

the more 80' races i watch the more i think Alain was the real GOAT of f1

In Austria "Prost!" means "Cheers!" and so a drinking game started, that whenever the commentators said his name, you had to take a sip.

Great video. Both Prost and Senna are all time top 5 drivers in my opinion and should both be appreciated for the enormous amount of talent they had. It's sad when fans of one driver try to "prove" their favourite is better by trying to tear the other down. It's not just about how much you win, but against who you win and both of Prost and Senna won against the best of their time because they were the best.

It's interesting that when you say that he focused entirely on the Sunday instead of the Saturday, that's exactly what Lauda did to him in 1984. Lauda said that he realized that he couldn't beat Prost in qualifying, so he focused entirely on the race setup, often winning from far back.

A further comment from me is that the “Comments” pages read very well with a good considered fair feel to them. You have a deserved nice set of followers and I’m happy to be one! Never liked the Senna film as it was not fair to Alain - steeling myself to watch Villeneuve - Pironi. Will it be fair to both?

Not fastest but most complete driver of F1 history. Excellent driver, mastermind of perfecting set-up and managing tires and brakes and brilliant strategist. Challenging Senna throughout the entire 1990 season with that fragile Ferrari car is just incredible and should have deserved him some kind of extra trophy. Mansell finishing behind Berger proves what a 🗑️ unreliable car the Ferrari was compared to McLaren. Ferrari should hire him as strategist. If Prost said "we are checking" I wouldn’t be worried. 😅

Most people rate Senna on what ifs after his death. But his story could have been a Sebastian Vettel post Red Bull.

Absolutely spot-on. I never like Prost as a kid watching F1, but now looking back, he's clearly one of the greatest drivers ever to grace the sport. Fantastic job on the video!

Also worth mentioning his seasons with Rene Arnoux and John Watson - largely forgotten now but at the time both were considered among the best in the paddock and had realistic shots at the WDC.

I think the video makes a lot of good points. When I was a kid I probably underappreciated Prost because his driving wasn't flashy, it wasn't eye catching. He didn't go diving up the inside much, he didn't pull many wild moves to keep drivers behind him. He didn't make risky passes on backmarkers. His style was fast and smooth. He didn't drive faster or more recklessly than he had to. Which made Prost less interesting to watch than Senna or Mansell, but it got him results. As an adult I became a much greater fan of Prost, and just how careful, how smooth he was. He was playing chess while his competition was often playing poker.

A lot of the changes put into place by Todt and Schumi was something Prost wanted all along in the early 90s.

I think the Prost Team did his legacy no favours sadly. He was seen as the big rival of probably the most beloved driver, whose story in F1 and this world could never be really closed up on because of how it ended. Seeing his rival fail at that just shifted the view many had of him, and treat his legacy a bit... dismissively.

I remember watching F1 with my dad when I was very young. Prost was the guy who would beat the fan favourites. Doesn't matter how good you are, if people don't like you they will always try to discredit you. Thanks for making this video. Maybe it will help to show him in a better light to more people.

I've been watching classic F1 races for a while now, mainly 80s and 90s, before I started following the sport, and I must say, I've always been a Senna fan. These races have made me appreciate Senna even more, but also Prost, Mansell and, to an extent, Nelson Piquet. In the case of Prost, man, he might not have been flashy, but some of his performances are absolutely phenomenal, like Mexico 1990, where he won starting way back in the grid, or South Africa 1984, where he finished second after starting from the pit lane. And let's not forget about Australia 1986, which, in my opinion, is one of the absolute greatest F1 races of all time. Senna is still my favorite driver, but Prost deserves to be remembered as one of the greatest drivers ever too.

He’s likely the greatest driver in the history of the sport.

Another wonderful video Aldas that needed to be made. I felt the same way as you but I needed this appraisal to provide the review of Alain’s career to confirm why I appreciate him more than others seem to. He was superb and don’t forget so fast when he needed to be. Interviews with him are a joy and a lesson in clear and direct.thinking. No waffle from Alain! You are a clear thinking guy too - most enjoyable.

Prost was basically an enhanced version of Lauda, cold and calculating mixed with perfection

I feel the same! I always wanted your detailed perspective on Prost! Thanks for the amazing video, Aldas!!!

I feel like Sennas death raised him to this mythical status and almost made him bit overrated even though Prost was at the very least equal to him.

I agree 120% with your opinon. Prost is a driver who has won far less than he deserved. In addition to the 1985, 1986, 1989, 1993 championships, he could have also won the 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1990 championships, which he lost due to various misfortunes. If he had won 9 championships, no one today could accuse him of stealing something. PS: it should also be emphasized that Prost won 51 GPs and 4 Championships running among the lions (Lauda, ​​Piquet, Mansell, Rosberg, Senna) and not in the desert like Schumacher and Hamilton, and having very strong teammates (Arnoux, Lauda, Rosberg, Mansell, Senna, Hill), not gregarious like Barrichello or Bottas. Arguably, Prost was the best Formula 1 driver of all time. If he had raced in the same conditions as Schumacher and Hamilton he would have won more than 100 GPs and a dozen F1 World Championships !!!!

He is underrated by most F1 fans because he was Senna's arch-nemesis, didn't die young, isn't attractive to the eye and wasn't a dashing driver. Considering Senna was the opposite of all I listed and is still consider a god, it's no surprise no matter what documentary we do on Alain, F1 fans will still consider him a second-class F1 driver. People act on emotions not on facts. Prost is by far one of the best among deceased and living racers and had qualities that even the F1 god Senna lacked. But it is a "heresy" to say that among F1 fans.

Ur right in everything u said ....am senna fan but sure prost was a big part of this great era ..he was a professor for sure .......such a great drivers

You need not worry, long time F1 supporters appreciate his skill.

He was the king of the 80's hands down

Absolutely superb video. Thank you for making it. The only item I will take some issue with is in the reference to the Senna movie as being a documentary. While Senna was categorized as a 'documentary' it was more of a docu-drama where historical footage was very selectively chosen to show a very particular view (that of Senna as a hero and Prost as a villain). This is supported by the director of the film who I was able to question at a Q&A screening on this very point. He very clearly explained that the film was NEVER intended to be a historical documentary that gives a balanced view on historical events. As such Prost was made out to be the bad guy very intentionally. Unfortunately too many people learned everything they know about Senna from that one movie and lack the full picture to understand that era and the people better.

This is a great perspective. For anyone who wants to hear more to the Prost story I highly recommend his interview in the Nico Rosberg podcast a while back. Very well done and insightful. Also, you can see on that interview that despite public perception, Prost seems very satisfied with his accomplishments in F1, and speaks about the past without bitterness (in my opinion).

Prodt even had a very rear talent which was very valuable in these times: he could develop a car! He really could communicate very well with the engineers and didn‘t dissappear in the winterseason 4:19 , but was hard working to prepare the coming one!

I had the chance to meet Alain and shake his hand and congratulate him for his exceptional career, he is one of the greatest on so many different cars and in competition you need a threshold to measure with and Alain was definitely one of these threshold which made our best F1 years thanks for this excellent coverage of this legend

I love your videos. This one was amazing. I started watching F1 right after Prost retired so the only memories I have of him is as team owner with Prost Grand Prix (Ligier). You make me want to see and learn more about him 😊

Absolutely spot on. Prost is my favourite driver of all time personally. He is my earliest memory of watching F1, back in 1993. He made the sport look like anyone could do it, such was his style behind the wheel. You’d have to compare his driving style to what was required back in the 60s, where flair just wiped speed off. He would be right up there at the front in any era.

I feel like Prost is overshadowed by Senna. Not because of driving skill or achievements by any means but because of how renowned Senna’s story is with F1 fans and non F1 fans alike. I mean if you think today with how many fans there are that came after lets say the time DTS released compared to how many fans were there before and know their history, that are still in the community today… The difference is huge. I feel if Senna had never passed away so early, and especially the way he did too, Prost would get much more recognition that he does now as one of the greatest racing drivers to ever step foot in a 4 wheeled vehicle’s greatest rival. One of the only drivers to hold a candle to the great Ayrton Senna.

Thank you for this video. Prost's career has always been shadowed by Senna. People have forgotten what a legendary driver Prots was.

He is under-appreciated simply because he's alive and didn't take attention-seeking risks.

Alain Prost is for me the greatest driver of all time. He has an unmatched combination of intelligence and speed.

Whilst it is fun to retrospectively apply different point systems to previous eras, that's about as useful as it is, because if those points systems were in play at the time, teams and drivers would have made different decisions. Sometimes pushing harder to secure more points (because they needed them, for example), which may have caused them to crash or experience mechanical failures, or play it safe to bring the car home ... there by avoiding crashes they actually had etc etc.

I remember Frank Williams commenting after a race that Alain had won, that Prost was doing his thing of being the fastest when actually it looked like he was hardly doing anything.

One of your most interesting episodes Aldas. Very illuminating. 👊🏻

Thank you for this video, you hit a home run. I've been saying this for years, I started out as a hard core Senna fan and the more research I did and the more old races I watched the more I started to Realize......Prost is low key better. Maybe not "quicker" but consistency over a season I think he is one of the goats. 4 championships, 4 runner ups, 5 world champions as teammates all beaten by Prost. That Senna movie did a great job painting him as a villan.

I follwed Alain throughout his career and the most amazing story I heard was that his race engineer at McLaren would have to ask him when he was on a hot lap because he could never tell visually. That is just an incredible example of how smooth his driving style was. A great example of his driving discipline was his during his first seaon at Renault when he won at Zandvoort after waiting patiently for his delicate Michelin's to bed in.

Great video, would love to see a series of similar videos, of underappreciated drivers. there are a few that spring to mind of more modern times the likes of Jenson button, Nico Rosberg and I suppose even Sebastian Vettel's world championships are under appreciated, the guy won his first without ever leading the championship throughout the year, then winning three more back to back, in cars that actually (after the mercedes years and even now the current red bull dominance) were not as dominant as you think they were when you watch those seasons again. Vettel was just that good.

The Senna documentary did a hatchet job on Prost. Yeah, all films need it's protagonist and antagonist but the way it depicted Prost as the 'establishment guy' who got lucky sticks in the throat. It actually got to the point where the film made such an effort to delegitimise Senna's rivals to the extent that it delegitimise his own success. If it couldn't be bothered to explain what made Prost so special then it doesn't make Ayrton that special. It's a great piece of filmmaking, very emotive and made to appeal to the non f1 fan demographic. But I would take it's perspective with a hefty pinch of salt. Prost was and is a legend. His thoughtfulness and meticulous nature exemplified his beautiful, precise racing style. In and out of the cockpit he perfected the art and dare I say was the template for the likes of Schumacher to take it further.

Without Prost there is no Senna. They were two completely different drivers who brought out the pinnacle of competition between them. He carried Senna’s coffin, they respected each other greatly. We will never see rivalry like this again.

Fantastic video keep it up you're doing a great job and Prost was my dad's favourite driver at the time.

Alain Prost was the greatest name of F1 in 1980’s and he didn’t lose in 88 to Senna, for he outscored Senna in both seasons 88 and 89. The discard pointing system gave the championship to Senna.

I’ve watched Senna and Prost racing live, from around 1988 until they retired. It is just like it is with Verstappen today. Senna was so good that everybody rooted for him, F1 bosses and team bosses favored him, so he got away with so many things that others didn’t. Senna was the hero, everyone else was the villain. And just like with Verstappen, this doesn’t take away the fact that they are just the best drivers on the grid, and they are unbeatable anyway when they are at their best.

Excellent vid. I mean, I always knew he was one of the fastest drivers, but those stats you presented blew my mind. Only beaten twice by two of those teammates by a combined total of 3.5 points? Yeah, underappreciated is the word.

He outscored Senna in both seasons that they were teammates Without dumb point rules, we'd be talking about a 5 time world champion

Hell yes! I've always felt he's atleast top 5. Probably top 3. Good to see him get some props.

Prost was never hyped up by the media because his unspectacular, albeit effective, style didn't help sell papers.

One of the most intelligent videos I ve ever seen about f1, congrats 👏

Knowing full well the extent of Ayrton's talent, my admiration for Allain only grew in these last decades. When you're young you tend to root for the fastest on track, but age has this way of teaching you to appreciate smarts. Allain was never as quick, but he's one of the best race strategists of all times. He was Scott Dixon before Scott Dixon, always putting himself in the position to capitalise on the smallest mistakes anyone made, and that won him three of his four F1 championships.

You are really a good Human being thanks for making justice where and when it matter. Always very well balanced.