REVISITED: Alain Prost on showdowns and phone calls with Senna

F1 Beyond The Grid

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Season 5 of F1 Beyond The Grid starts with a brand-new episode on Wednesday 16th March.

Alain Prost is a four-time Formula 1 World Champion, star of one of the sport’s most thrilling eras, and Ayrton Senna’s great rival. In this 2018 interview from the Beyond The Grid archive, Alain tells Tom Clarkson the story of his rise to the top of the sport, the championships he missed out on, the titles he won, and the dazzling drivers he raced along the way. Prost v Senna was the duel which dominated F1 in the late 1980s and early 90s. You’ll hear Alain’s take on their relationship, and memories of their heart-to-heart phone conversations which finally helped him understand Senna as a driver and as a person.

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0:00.0	An ITVX exclusive.
0:03.4	Who have you ever revealed your real self to?
0:06.4	starring Damien Lewis and Guy Pears.
0:08.8	The man I trusted most, my best friend, has done the unthinkable.
0:14.4	As buy among friends, stream free on ITVX.
0:20.8	When two great drivers duel for the Formula One World Championship, things can get messy.
0:27.4	In the late 1980s and early 90s, long before Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton's battle,
0:34.0	F1's fiercest fight was between Erton Senna and Alan Prost.
0:40.0	Tender is trying to go through on the inside,
0:42.1	but it's happened immediately.
0:43.7	This is amazing.
0:44.9	Senna goes off at the first corner.
0:47.2	But what has happened to Prost?
0:48.8	He has gone off too.
0:50.4	Yes, and that makes Erton Senna world champion this year,
0:53.5	with Prost not finishing the race by 30s out of his car stuck in the gravel pit.
0:58.3	That I'm afraid to say is the end of this year's drivers world championship.
1:04.2	You can't talk about our story when we were racing together,
1:09.9	without understanding what happened after I retired.
1:13.9	All the discussion we had together with Erton during the winter before his accident.
1:19.0	And then if you understand that, you understand why he was like this, what was his motivation.
1:28.8	As we build up to the first episode of Beyond the Grid season 5,
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