The title, without much fun

Alain Prost won his fourth world title in 1993 with Williams F1. Coming back after a sabbatical, he triumphed again, but he explained in the podcast Beyond the Grid, that he doesn’t really have fond memories of his last season in Formula 1.

Picture above: With his win at Magny-Cours (French Grand Prix) in his Williams-Renault FW15, Alain Prost becomes the first driver to reach 100 podiums in F1.

The Frenchman remembers : “The whole season has really been difficult. When you won in a Williams at the time, everybody thought it was normal, but when you lost, then you were considered as a bad driver, and that’s not exactly how you want to be perceived. One has to be objective: for me, it was not a beautiful season.”

“I discovered a new technology in the active suspension. It was a new car, a new way of setting up the car and a new way of working with the engineers. Clearly, it was not my favourite car.”

“I had a fantastic team mate in Damon Hill. He was very useful. He had more experience than me with the active suspension, because of the countless testing miles he had done. Ayrton (Senna) who was my principal opponent, had a very, very good chassis. I know this for sure, because a year later I tested this same McLaren chassis with the Peugeot engine.”

“Our Williams was a difficult car to drive. For the two last races of the season, in Japan and in Adelaide, I really tried to finish my career with a victory, but it was not possible. The McLaren was much faster.”

Alain Prost’s career thus ended with a fourth drivers’ title and 51 Grand Prix victories. A monument, a legend, called it a day while being on the summit.