S11 E6: The Prost/Ligier saga of 1992
Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories
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🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Bring Back V10s is picking up where its first ever episodes left off, by revisiting what happened to Alain Prost after he was fired by Ferrari in 1991!
We’ve reunited the trio from our opening two-parter - Glenn Freeman, Karun Chandhok and Edd Straw - to look at what Prost did in 1992, when he nearly ended up racing for, and buying into, the Ligier team.
We look at how close this shock move came to really happening, why it didn’t come off, plus the other offers Prost had for that year, and why his Williams deal for 1993 was kept secret for so long.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Alam Pross, sacking by Ferrari at the end of 1991 was such a big story that we used it to kick |
| 0:16.8 | off, bring back V10s when we launched the show, and we needed to make it a two-parter |
| 0:21.5 | to cover it properly. What Prost did next was just as interesting and newsworthy, and we're |
| 0:27.2 | not talking about returning from that year on the sidelines to win a fourth World Championship |
| 0:31.4 | with Williams, but what came before that? Because in the early part of 1992, Prost came very close to not only racing for |
| 0:40.3 | Ligier that season, but also buying the team as part of a grand plan to turn it into an F1 |
| 0:47.0 | powerhouse. So to help me, Glenn Freeman, effectively go through part three of the first |
| 0:52.3 | subject we ever covered here on Bring Back V10s. |
| 0:55.1 | We've reunited our original lineup from that first recording in February 2020, |
| 1:00.7 | meaning I'm joined by Ed Straw and Karun Chandok. |
| 1:04.3 | Karun, welcome back to Bring Back V10. |
| 1:06.5 | Sadly, we're not all sat together in your living room this time as we were for the first two episodes on Prost and Ferrari. |
| 1:12.4 | But you know the drill, of course. |
| 1:14.2 | When you think of the Prost-Lijie saga in 1992, what's the first thing that comes to mind? |
| 1:19.9 | That ridiculous cover-up they tried to do of Prost wearing Eric Comass's helmet. |
| 1:26.5 | And then coming up with some nonsense excuse about how |
| 1:30.2 | it was something to do with a radio kit or something, wasn't it? But anyway, if anyone |
| 1:35.0 | Googles a picture of Eric Comas, you'll realize he looks nothing like Alan Prost, so that cover |
| 1:39.0 | up was never going to work. Yeah, if you Google the pictures of Alan Prost in Eric Comas's kit as well, it's very obvious. It's Alan Prost. Ed, what's your standout memory? |
| 1:49.5 | Well, as was the start of the time, it was very much a story followed through print. So what always leaps into my mind is that Autosport cover, which was Prost. Testing in the Comas helmet. |
| 1:59.8 | Prost's secret lichet test was the headline. |
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