His friends call him “The small”
04. Feb 2025
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When he started to race, his friends used to gently call him “the dwarf”, because of his small stature. Once he became great, when he had the career we all know in Formula 1, Alain Prost was still called “the small” by his little band of French followers.
Once he became team owner, it was a hard fall from glory, as is illustrated in this funny image, where the angle magnifies the difference of size between Prost, the race car (Prost AP01 Peugeot, and the three drivers: Jarno Trulli, Stéphane Sarrazin and Olivier Panis. But don’t we say “small is beautiful”… ?
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Formula 1, Jarno Trulli, Stephane Sarrazin, Olivier Panis, Prost, Alain Prost, Peugeot, Italy, France, 1998
Source: Pierre Van Vliet