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RACING DRIVER

Alain Prost

1955 - Today

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Alain Marie Pascal Prost (French: [alɛ̃ pʁɔst]; born 24 February 1955) is a French retired racing driver and Formula One team owner. A four-time Formula One World Drivers' Champion, from 1987 until 2001 he held the record for most Grand Prix victories until Michael Schumacher surpassed Prost's total of 51 victories at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix. Prost discovered karting at the age of 14 during a family holiday. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alain Prost has received more than 3,344,434 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia. Alain Prost is the 8th most popular racing driver (down from 7th in 2019), the 373rd most popular biography from France (up from 436th in 2019) and the most popular French Racing Driver.

Alain Prost is most famous for being a four-time Formula One world champion, winning in 1985, 1986, 1989, and 1993.

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  • 9.67

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  • 3.06

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Alain Prost ranks 8 out of 888. Before him are Enzo Ferrari, Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Juan Manuel Fangio, James Hunt, and Ken Miles. After him are Emerson Fittipaldi, Giuseppe Farina, Carroll Shelby, Alberto Ascari, Nelson Piquet, and Jackie Stewart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Alain Prost ranks 8. Before him are Bill Gates, Rowan Atkinson, Bruce Willis, Nicolas Sarkozy, Jair Bolsonaro, and Michel Platini. After him are Tim Berners-Lee, Kevin Costner, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Willem Dafoe, and Sergey Shoygu.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Prost ranks 373 out of 6,011. Before him are Gregory of Tours (538), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Mauriac (1885), Raymond Kopa (1931), Georges Bataille (1897), and Jérôme Bonaparte (1784). After him are Jules Rimet (1873), Theodor Eicke (1892), André Malraux (1901), Pytheas (-380), Marc Bloch (1886), and Pierre Beaumarchais (1732).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In France

Among racing drivers born in France, Alain Prost ranks 1. After him are Jean Todt (1946), François Cevert (1944), René Arnoux (1948), Jacques Laffite (1943), Didier Pironi (1952), Patrick Depailler (1944), Pierre Levegh (1905), Jean Alesi (1964), Michèle Mouton (1951), Jean Behra (1921), and Maurice Trintignant (1917).

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