Alain Prost: “You can’t talk about my rivalry with Senna without understanding what happened after I retired…”
F1 Beyond The Grid
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4.7 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The word legend is often bandied about in sports, but this week’s guest on Beyond The Grid, presented by Bose, is truly worthy of the moniker.
As a driver, Alain Prost set new standards, establishing a win record that only three drivers in history have surpassed – and he did it against some of the greatest talents in F1 history. His inimitable approach earned him the nickname The Professor, but it’s for his rivalry with Ayrton Senna – his one-time team mate – that the great Frenchman is best remembered. 25 years on from his fourth and final world title triumph, Tom Clarkson sat down with Prost – now a special advisor with Renault – to talk about his epic career, including, of course, that unique and multi-faceted relationship with Senna…
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| 0:00.0 | Bose is the presenting partner of Beyond the Grid. That's because Bose quiet comfort |
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| 0:24.6 | I am Alan Prost and you are listening to Beyond the Grid. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello gang, it's TC here with another edition of Beyond the Grid. |
| 0:37.4 | Now we've had some legends on this show over the past few weeks, but this time I'm talking |
| 0:42.0 | to someone who can rightly be regarded as one of the greatest of all time. I first saw |
| 0:47.7 | him in action at the 1983 British Grand Prix at Silverstone. At the time he'd yet to win |
| 0:52.8 | a world title, but I remember being mesmerised by him and his bright yellow Renault RE40 from |
| 0:59.4 | my vantage point on the outside of Beckett's. He won that day and he'd go on to win a total |
| 1:04.7 | of 51 races and take four world titles, and his battles with Erton Senna would become |
| 1:10.1 | the stuff of legend. I'm talking of course about the Professor himself, Alan Prost. |
| 1:16.6 | Over the years I've been lucky enough to spend a bit of time with Alan and it's always |
| 1:20.2 | been a privilege. We've even cycled up the famous Tour de France climb of Alp du |
| 1:24.5 | Ez together and for the record I didn't seem for dust. This chat though was the first time |
| 1:30.3 | we'd sat down adder. We talked about a lot and not just the obvious and I was hanging |
| 1:35.8 | off his every word, particularly when it came to discussing his great rivalry with Erton Senna. |
| 1:41.7 | I hope you enjoy our chat as much as I did. |
| 1:44.7 | Welcome to Beyond the Rude. Thank you for your time. Now this is getting a bit ridiculous |
| 1:55.8 | because you still look as lean and fit as you were when you were racing and that was 25 years ago. |
| 2:02.5 | Now is there any truth in what I've just said? Yeah even worse than that. I'm very |
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