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Alain Prost interview after Suzuka 89

another handshake mentioned

"I'm very happy (abt the championship) but a bit upset because have a little altercation with my teammate and it's a shame that things come to this, it was absolutely impossible to shake his hand"

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Senna and Prost after Senna’s disqualification at Suzuka in 1989, according to an archived Autosport article

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Alain Prost interview after Phenix 1990

The journalist asked Alain is it true that Senna refused to shake his hand, and what's going on

Alain (basically) said that he went to Ron and Ayrton (for kinda reconciliation) because the new season started they should fight with the best sporting spirit, but Aryton refused to shake his hand. So he gave up on the idea of them shaking hands in front of the Brazilian fans (at the upcoming Brazilian gp)

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Happy Birthday to my wicky little devil 😈🤘🏻

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Puppet Alain & Puppet Ayrton, 1993

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ALAIN PROST during the 1982 FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

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One year after Ayrton’s death, Viviane invited Alain Prost to spend two days with the family in Tatuí, on the eve of the Brazilian GP. On the flight to the farm, aboard Ayrton’s King Air twin-engine plane, piloted by Nelson Loureiro, Prost was tense, quiet, alone in the cabin. Upon arrival, always accompanied by Milton, Dona Neyde, and Viviane, he walked around the lake and saw the kart track designed and built by Ayrton. The conversations were light and pleasant—until the moment he was taken to the room where the great rival kept his model airplanes, a passion that had not faded with age.

Everyone was moved.

Later, the conversation became so intimate that it took place in the farm’s kitchen. The subject was not Ayrton. Nor Senna. Alain heard many stories about "Beco" and noticed that the father, mother, and sister were feeling very comfortable giving him the intimacy that Ayrton had never given him in life. And he was touched:

"I got to know the environment that made him who he was."

Prost’s meeting with the Senna da Silva was viewed with surprise by some Brazilian journalists who had followed the fierce war between the two drivers, on and off the track. Alain, for his part, had mixed feelings when returning from the farm.

"It’s hard to explain what I feel. It’s a somewhat bizarre situation, since Ayrton and I went through very tough things. It’s always an emotional moment when I talk about him, because I feel a bit of regret that such harsh situations happened between us."

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What was the worst trick that Nelson Piquet ever played on you?

With Nelson, I had a special situation. He was always using my room for his dates. At the beginning I didn’t really understand why he was always asking me for my key, I thought he just wanted to rest. One day I came into my room and found a girl sleeping in my bed! That’s when I realised what he had really been doing in my room — it certainly was not resting…

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Alain interview in 1977

I just want you all to LOOK at him!!!!

and his tshirt!

is that a frog on his shirt saying I'm a sport?!

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[Senna and Prost] didn’t speak to each other but they still worked normally —so to speak— in debrief, in a sort of roundabout way. If Senna had a question, he wouldn’t ask Prost: he’d ask me, I’d ask his [Prost’s] race engineer, and his race engineer would ask Prost, and then it would come back round the other way.  Clarkson: All while being sat in the same room? In the same room, yeah. It’s a bit like going through a divorce and you can’t talk to your wife, so you talk to the lawyers and pay the money and all that. That’s kinda the way it worked. They had ultimate respect for each other, it would appear they hated each other’s guts, but they actually worked together to develop the car even though it was in this sort of roundabout fashion.

Steve Nichols in 2022 for the Beyond The Grid podcast. Nichols was Senna’s race engineer at McLaren in 1988 and 1989 before following Prost to Ferrari in 1990 after disagreements with Ron Dennis.

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Animated comic 'Super Senna vs. Professor Big Nose' created by TV Globo in 1993.

(This was done up until the Monaco GP, that is, until may of that year.)

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Alain Prost signing autographs for fans in Rio de Janeiro, 1987

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Guys guys i need you all to look at this

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World Champion Formula One driver Alain Prost was fined $5,000 Monday for calling Italian Grand Prix officials 'idiotic' for delaying their decision to disqualify him from the race.

Prost was disqualified from Sunday's race when he took longer than the time allowed to join the race in his spare car after his McLaren stalled on the starting grid.

However, course officials waited until the race was more than half over before flagging him off the course.

Prost, who admitted he broke the rules, later complained to reporters the officials 'should not let a driver put himself at risk for three-quarters of a race before making their decision.'

In a statement announcing the fine, officials of FISA, the sport's governing body, said Prost was quoted as telling reporters: 'The officials' decisions were idiotic.'