Prost Grand Prix: What Went Wrong?

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  • @darkalman
    @darkalman 4 роки тому +54

    Prost had the rug pulled out from under him at every opportunity. He was pretty candid about the various problems in his Behind the Grid.
    At one point he had an honest conversation with Ron Dennis and discovered that his payroll was the same as McLaren despite having a 1/3 the staff. French labor laws being what they are meant that it was much more expensive to operate the team in France. Prost briefly considered relocating the team to England but decided that this would defeat the whole point of running a French Team.
    Briatore bought Ligier in 94 to turn them into a Benetton B team, but while he was able to turn them around to a degree he also forced Renault to switch their engine supply to Benetton so they would have the same engines as Williams. This left Prost with Peugeot as his only available French engine supplier. Then Peugeot decided to change the deal at the last minute and charge him for engines instead of supplying for free. That was a sizeable chunk of his budget gone right there.
    The French President was a personal friend, but then he lost the election just as Prost took over the team so all the promised government support went up in smoke with it. Otherwise the French government would have applied pressure on French brands to support Prost GP extensively.

    • @zanemarte9877
      @zanemarte9877 2 роки тому +3

      In his Beyond The Grid,
      Prost said that he was only convinced by the French President at the time. 2 days before he was supposed to sign the paperwork he said "I don't want to do it anymore," but the French president bounced back saying "Please do it for France, we will help you at a later date." Of Course that never happened.
      Peugeot screwed Alain over the engine deal, but their engines were still so unreliable it's not funny even at Jordan Grand Prix where 14 times in 1997 those cars failed to finish from engine failure.

  • @nickyjames1985
    @nickyjames1985 3 роки тому +17

    The AP01 was gorgeous, still remember it from 1998, that Metalic blue looked amazing

  • @zanemarte9877
    @zanemarte9877 2 роки тому +7

    6:24 Stewart Grand Prix in 1997 (as a brand new team) only finished the race 8 times between the two cars the team had run with drivers Rubens Barrichello who finished 2nd in Monaco and Jan Magnussen.

    • @davedewsnap288
      @davedewsnap288 Рік тому +1

      So there you go…..even Red Bull started at the back of the grid.

  • @Senna-78
    @Senna-78 3 роки тому +17

    You forgot a particular: in September of 2001 Diniz tried to buy the whole team in order to restore the economical situation, but Alain Prost refused so Diniz and his family decide to abandon him.
    If he had sold PROST GP to Diniz, the team probably have continued to exist

  • @TheJamesEarly
    @TheJamesEarly 4 роки тому +12

    Great video! And you're right about Prost producing some amazing looking cars!

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому +1

      Thanks James! They definitely made some stunners, I think they're criminally underrated in the F1 UA-cam community!

  • @AHGP
    @AHGP 4 роки тому +3

    Very nicely put together. I think it sums up Prost GP's time in F1 very well. High hopes, big names, utterly underwhelming. Its like the cliche in football of a great player not always making a great manager.

  • @aggerktm
    @aggerktm 3 роки тому +8

    in my opinion, Prost's biggest mistake was the obsession with having Peugeot engines, just for the sake of building a full french team. had they stayed with Mugen-Honda they maybe wouldve reached a level of success similar to that of Jordan's during the late 90s. for 2001 they had good Ferrari engines but their train had already gone by long ago, they had lost all their sponsors, money, good drivers (Trulli, Panis, Heidfeld and finally Alesi, mid 2001) and by that time everyone kinda knew the team was bound to disappear sooner than later. Panis' injury was also really unlucky as it completely cut off their momentum in 1997

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  3 роки тому +4

      They might have even been a contender for works Honda engines for the 2000 onwards instead of BAR

  • @davidjamesnoble3170
    @davidjamesnoble3170 4 роки тому +5

    Enjoyable video. Looking at it from the outside it was always a mystery as how a driver as successful as Alain could run a team into the ground like that, but in the late 90's and early 2000's we didn't have the flow and access to information available like there is now and there were so many other factors going on. Ultimately though, being successful on track doesn't mean you will be off it. Buying a midfield running outfit without experience on the other side of the pitwall, a driver is always likely to find the team going down rather than up unfortunately.

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому

      Thanks David! I don't think Alain has got what it takes to manage a team of people. Although being "the professeur" made him an incredible driver, he doesn't give me vibes of authority and presence in the high stakes of being an F1 team principal/owner.

    • @davidjamesnoble3170
      @davidjamesnoble3170 4 роки тому

      That's part of it isn't it. As a top level driver, you manage yourself and tell other people what you need and they sort it. It's not your job to be the fixer. As team boss you have to deal with all the stuff you didn't look at as a driver. The role Alain has with Renault now, similar to what Niki was doing with Mercedes, seems to suit him though as he's seen all sides of it and has had many years to reflect on what he could have done differently and why things played out like they did.

    • @zanemarte9877
      @zanemarte9877 2 роки тому +1

      That is not necessarily true if you all remember.
      Jackie Stewart was another driver who formed a team from the ground up, and had decent success in the 3 years Stewart competed as an owner before the team got taken over by Jaguar. The team got a race win and 4 additional podiums between two of their four drivers who raced for Stewart, Rubens Barrichello and Johnny Herbert. Ford their manufacturer became a competitive force and could challenge for race wins and podiums between them, Mercedes, Ferrari, Renault, and Honda while Peugeot faced reliability issues and would hardly score any world points at all with Prost Grand Prix. Anyway after Jaguar failed, the team became Red Bull and is now a top tier team with Honda engines (rebranded as Red Bull's own as of 2022). Thanks to Jackie Stewart a team that goes back to 1997 (under different management) is very successful and have won so many races and podiums. They have won the constructor's championship four years in a row between 2010 and 2013 and five drivers championships between Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen [4 and 1 (as of the moment)] as of 2022.

    • @davidjamesnoble3170
      @davidjamesnoble3170 2 роки тому +1

      @@zanemarte9877 yep. There are certainly exceptions. Jackie said in an interview that he considered the team a success because it made more money than it lost, which in F1 is definitely an achievement. I remember reading (can't remember if it was autosport or which magazine) that they weren't sure if Stewart would manage to make it to the grid as despite having works cosworth engines, they'd only got a budget of 27 million. Jackie was a very clever guy when it came to presenting himself, the team and making the most of what he had for sure. As a driver he had a very close relationship with Ken Tyrell and saw up close how a small team with good leadership could be successful. The sport has changed dramatically but the simple rule of doing the basic, fundamental things well still remains.

  • @robinyau6953
    @robinyau6953 4 роки тому +5

    Great vid! Enjoyed it a lot

  • @lukedempsey1784
    @lukedempsey1784 4 роки тому +2

    Awesome video! I think the last few years of Arrows would be a great video. Any excuse to see that 1998 all black car

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому +1

      Thank you! Arrows would be a great team to focus on, that 98 livery is one of my favourites of all time!

  • @prettyprrrrettaygood
    @prettyprrrrettaygood 4 роки тому +11

    excellent video, tho 1 question.
    did all the technical staff leave in '97? can't imagine same people were responsible for the '98 car.

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому +4

      Thank you! From my understanding the team was the same (mainly Logic Bigois, Bernard Dudot and Ben Wood). There were some regulation changes in 1998 that could've messed everything up. That's a really good question!

    • @prettyprrrrettaygood
      @prettyprrrrettaygood 4 роки тому +3

      ah - reg change. that will do it.

    • @theleninist4272
      @theleninist4272 3 роки тому +4

      I think the main problem was the car was being designed to take the Mugan Honda and then Prost got a engine with Peugeot and the car had to altered to take the new engine .

  • @Ben-wx1xg
    @Ben-wx1xg 4 роки тому +2

    Another great video well made 👍

  • @motorsportfanboy7769
    @motorsportfanboy7769 4 роки тому +18

    At least with Ligier, French F1 fans has something to cheer about 😂. Also, the next team story I want you to do is Jordan. One of the last of the "independents" F1 team

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому +6

      That Panis win in 1996 was special! You've obviously got mind reading capabilities as I definitely want to do them next 👀

    • @motorsportfanboy7769
      @motorsportfanboy7769 4 роки тому +3

      @@AlexTalksRacing Oooooh that's going to be interesting. Maybe after Ligier you'll go with Jordan?

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому +3

      @@motorsportfanboy7769 I meant Jordan 😂

    • @motorsportfanboy7769
      @motorsportfanboy7769 4 роки тому +2

      @@AlexTalksRacing Oh ffs I must have misread it or smth 😂. But anyway, yes! Can't wait for the Jordan one!

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому +4

      @@motorsportfanboy7769 don't worry! When it gets done I hope you'll like it 🙏🏻

  • @tristanblackmore7606
    @tristanblackmore7606 4 роки тому +3

    Brilliant video, very informative 👍

  • @1megaalakazam100
    @1megaalakazam100 4 роки тому

    Your channel is very good, you deserve way more subscribers.
    The only thing i used to like about the Prost cars was the livery. Nice color

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому

      Thank you, comments like this mean a lot! Their liveries were beautiful to look at, it's a shame the cars didn't go as fast as they looked.

  • @TheMotorMouthPodcast
    @TheMotorMouthPodcast 4 роки тому

    Loving your videos mate, top top quality stuff! And an awesome story 🏁

  • @zanemarte9877
    @zanemarte9877 2 роки тому +4

    After watching those old races with Prost competing in the 1990's as an owner during this past offseason between 2021 and 2022. I could not believe that Prost failed because the team had so unreliable engines from a manufacturer not well known for racing. Prost should've sticked with Honda to begin with instead of unreliable Peugeot engines. And the fact that their best driver Olivier Panis never got back to his old-self after injury. I'm glad that the team was able to capitalize when they were able to but only at very few races.
    On what you should do next I would suggest Jaguar, the team that took over Stewart in 2000.

  • @Jgraham87
    @Jgraham87 4 роки тому

    Awesome video. Watching it agin, to make sure I didn’t miss anything. 😄

  • @grahammc3189
    @grahammc3189 4 роки тому

    Great video....well made and very informative. Massive Prost fan.

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому

      Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Prost fans are a rare occurrence on here so I'm happy you thought I produced it well 🙌🏻

    • @grahammc3189
      @grahammc3189 4 роки тому

      @@AlexTalksRacing New subscriber to your channel. ..really pleased I found it! Hope to see more Prost related videos :)

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому

      @@grahammc3189 thanks for subscribing! I'm thinking of doing a Jarno Trulli video in the future so his Prost stint will definitely come up in there!

  • @michaelhernandi7019
    @michaelhernandi7019 Рік тому +1

    The funniest part about Peugeot claim at 6:40 about their engine made up for almost 800 HP their own driver Alesi even shot back at them by saying "If Peugeot could made up 800 HP then Ferrari and Mercedes engine should have made for almost 840-860 HP". In other words Alesi claim that Peugeot claim was a lie.

  • @steviegbcool
    @steviegbcool 2 роки тому +2

    Alesi Qualified 7th in Monaco not 8th which was a minor miracle in this terrible car.

    • @zanemarte9877
      @zanemarte9877 Місяць тому

      What's more bad is that 5 out of the 6 cars he was behind retired from the race one way or another, and had he kept going he could've scored a 2nd place podium which is 6 points. That along with Belgium when he was running 4th on a different strategy because of rain would've given Prost 9 points total and a 7th place in the constructor's for 2000 (equalling 1999) which would've been huge as (we all know), Peugeot and all their sponsors pulled the plug for 2001.

  • @bendtfender2894
    @bendtfender2894 4 роки тому +3

    How about a video on HRT and what went wrong.

  • @TS-bn7zt
    @TS-bn7zt 4 роки тому

    I still miss Ligier even now, thanks for the video
    it is a good one cheers.👍

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому +1

      They were an underrated team, glad you enjoyed the video!

    • @TS-bn7zt
      @TS-bn7zt 4 роки тому

      @@AlexTalksRacing Thanks for the reply Alex good stuff mate.
      As it happens I have just bought a vintage Ligier jacket ,it’s in the post right now!!
      It’s awesome considering it’s age.
      I have been after one for ages, it’s the real deal not a replica never seen one quite like it.
      Just going to sub your channel 👍

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому +1

      @@TS-bn7zt that sounds so cool, I love retro F1 merchandise! Thanks for the sub, hope you enjoy my future content 🙏🏻

  • @mrwolsy3696
    @mrwolsy3696 3 роки тому

    Well told story, thank you.

  • @ArcadeMusicTribute
    @ArcadeMusicTribute 3 роки тому +1

    first things that come to my mind when someone meantions Prost : 4 times champion, McLaren & Renault. Also Ligier & Prost F1 Team.

  • @roxstrongo8961
    @roxstrongo8961 3 роки тому +1

    How about a video for Pierluigi Martini?

  • @PierreGHedgehog
    @PierreGHedgehog 2 роки тому

    team suggestion: mastercard lola the shortest lived f1 team or maybe usf1 or any other proposed teams that never happened

  • @RenatoIMPERA
    @RenatoIMPERA 4 роки тому +1

    in this sense of patriotism, Fittipaldi Automotive had the same catastrophic results, with the bonus of burying the career of a two-time champion

  • @ChrisTipperable
    @ChrisTipperable 3 роки тому +1

    From what I read, Ligier had some serious debt and the team which was funded by the French Goverement was cut back and with the labour laws being as strict as they are in France, the staff was paid alot. Prost said himself he wasn't suited to run the team and he was quite candid about that.

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  3 роки тому

      The whole "French pride" thing didn't work out with Peugeot coming onboard. Although having government support can be beneficial, Prost was so mismanaged it wasn't really a good thing.

  • @qsr6838
    @qsr6838 4 роки тому +1

    Can you make a video about what went wrong with Williams

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому +1

      I'm thinking of doing Williams in the future, specifically between 1997-today

    • @qsr6838
      @qsr6838 4 роки тому

      @@AlexTalksRacing cool

  • @hallep9
    @hallep9 3 роки тому +1

    Alain prost is pure poison for team spirit

  • @neillp3827
    @neillp3827 4 роки тому +1

    What happened to the legionairres France team, home of jack lee-feet?

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому

      If you mean the Ligier team, they turned into this team (Prost) 😀

  • @madkhaliqfarhan
    @madkhaliqfarhan 2 роки тому +1

    That "PlayStation" livery though...

  • @blankpage555
    @blankpage555 3 місяці тому +1

    I sold prost merch

  • @MPal24
    @MPal24 3 роки тому

    Prost was unfortunate in that they came very close to winning a few races in 1997, and lost Olivier Panis to injury after his massive crash in Canada. Had the team managed to win in their debut year, their transition to the 1998 regulations might have been aided by more investment, and kept them at least in the midfield. Long-term though, they would not have survived as a privateer without championship success. If the team was more successful initially, they could possibly have been a semi-works Peugeot team. Although, even then, they probably wouldn't have survived past the 2008 financial crash.

    • @zanemarte9877
      @zanemarte9877 2 роки тому

      The team's engine manufacturer Peugeot compared to other manufacturers such as Mercedes, Honda, Ferrari, Renault, and Ford was not as reliable and always plagued by failures. Had Prost sticked with Honda engines instead Peugeot, the team might have made it and became a 2nd tier team to Jordan or even B.A.R. Because remember B.A.R. in 2000 started receiving engines from Honda after a disasterous year with Supertec (techincally Renault) engines and so many DNF's from engine failure between Villeneuve and Zonta.

  • @jkim6200
    @jkim6200 2 місяці тому

    Prost had some problems during his tint ar all French Renault 1981-84.

  • @AlejjSi
    @AlejjSi 2 роки тому +1

    I think it was not bad to buy Ligier, but as someone who never really felt like a nationalist, Prost should have not cared about building an all French team. If he sticked to Mugen Honda, I'm sore it would have been much better, because these engines were helping Jordan win races in 1998 and 1999. He was not the first who fell down this "all being French" rabbithole. There was a man called Jean Daninos, who had a company named Facel that produced car bodys. He then decided to do his own cars branded as Facel-Vega. They were big luxury GT cars and to make it a reliable car, he chose the Chrysler V8 engines and gearboxes. And the cars were good and company was succesfull. But there were always people forcing him to do an all French car. So he eventually agreed and so the Facelia was a car with a French engine made by former Talbot-Lago people and built by Pont-à-Mousson, as well as the gearbox was made there. Because of it's strange design (only two camshaft bearings) and bad manufacture processing, the engines failed often and the company was flodded with warranty claims. This destroyed the financially, aswell as their reputation fell to zeru and eventually, after some struggles, they had to close down.

  • @juliataylor2623
    @juliataylor2623 2 роки тому

    Pretty sure the Renault turbos of the early eighties scored fewer finishes.

  • @neillp3827
    @neillp3827 4 роки тому +1

    When did prost break his nose?

  • @gdogg3710
    @gdogg3710 2 роки тому

    …also, re John Barnard: same career path as his friend and contemporary, Patrick Head. A supremely gifted mechanical engineer who during the early days of modern F1 aero had been good enough at that side of things to build cars as good aerodynamically as anyone else.
    However, once people like Newey turned up, who were qualified aeronautical engineers and downforce numbers formed an ever greater percentage of a car’s lap time as gizmo after gizmo was banned, their ability to influence the overall performance of their cars became diminished as the aero work had to be delegated to specialists within the team, probably lacking their own personal genius…

  • @truepatriotlove5724
    @truepatriotlove5724 Рік тому

    It's a shame. The cars were beautiful, and sounded so good with the Peugeot engines!

    • @zanemarte9877
      @zanemarte9877 Рік тому

      Peugeot was so bad in reliability it's not funny. Once Peugeot changed the terms from free of charge to contributing a massive amount of Prost's budget for the engines, Prost wanted to call the deal off. In his Beyond The Grid podcast from 2018, Alain said "2 days before I signed the contract, I told the President of France I don't want to do it anymore because this is not what I thought but he then told me they will bring in help at a later date yet that never happened." Peugeot withdrew their name after 2000 but was still around for two more years as Asiatech providing engines to Arrows and Minardi, and of course Prost Grand Prix folded into bankruptcy at the end of 2001 therefore ending the dream Prost had for a decade. But Prost should've let Peugeot leave F1 and sticked with Honda to begin with instead of switching for the sake of building a pure French team.

  • @AlonsoRules
    @AlonsoRules 2 місяці тому

    If Senna had lived to see Prost's funny attempt at team ownership, what would he say?

  • @TommyGamerV12
    @TommyGamerV12 4 роки тому +1

    Ahh, finally someone mentions my uncle! Sadly not for good reasons 😅🤣🤣

  • @roydowning4840
    @roydowning4840 3 роки тому +1

    Please take a look at why Jaguar F1 failed!

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  3 роки тому +2

      I'll put that down on my list for the future!

  • @arthurteo5795
    @arthurteo5795 2 роки тому

    As you had hinted at the start of your video: please do a series on Pascal Wehrlein : which I perceive to be one of the greatest injustices and travesty of F1: a driver of such great potential left out of F1 for political reasons. Pascal scored points in a Manor and Sauber with a two year old engine: the mark of a great potential. But something went wrong at a Force India test and the test was cut short and Otmar chose to pick on matters unrelated to his driving. This put paid to Pascals future as other Team Principals went along with Otmars evaluation of Pascal. A great driver discarded by F1 for the wrong reasons.

  • @keironstoneman6938
    @keironstoneman6938 2 роки тому +1

    Briatore bought ligier to get the Renault engines for Benetton.

  • @olliebeck2952
    @olliebeck2952 4 роки тому

    BAR's first car, the 01, only finished 9 races in 1999. More of a dog than the Prost AP03 (just). They also finished behind Minardi in the Constructors!

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  4 роки тому

      The 1999 BAR had awful reliability, but I think on pure pace it was pretty quick especially in the hands of Villeneuve. His start in Barcelona was immense!

    • @zanemarte9877
      @zanemarte9877 Рік тому

      The 1997 Stewart-Ford SF-01 finished 1 less race than that B.A.R. This is between the two cars driven by Rubens Barrichello who finished 2nd in Monaco and Jan Magnussen

  • @BallisticEVA01
    @BallisticEVA01 3 роки тому +4

    To be honest, the only problem with the team was Porst himself... he fall out with Peugeot, Sponsors, Drivers, investours... basically everyone!! A mirror of his dirty "political" style as a driver in his career - he learnt nothing! Prost wil always be Prost - great driver but an awfull problem solver - the problem is ALWAYS the others.

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  3 роки тому +1

      You need to put politics aside when owning a team and you're right, Prost didn't do this.

    • @BallisticEVA01
      @BallisticEVA01 3 роки тому

      @@AlexTalksRacing By the way, thanks for being ineteresting and direct to the point in your videos - i already watched 3 of them - consider yourself a new subscriber! Keep up the good work, mate

    • @AlexTalksRacing
      @AlexTalksRacing  3 роки тому

      @@BallisticEVA01 thank you that's much appreciated! I hope you enjoy my future videos, I should have a new one out this weekend 🙏🏻

  • @Stimor
    @Stimor 2 роки тому

    the stuff with the everything

  • @AlexHutton377
    @AlexHutton377 3 роки тому +1

    The only aspect of the car was the livery was beautiful…. Was it, don’t see it somehow

  • @Skramso10
    @Skramso10 3 роки тому

    Jan Magnussen pls😉

  • @clement137
    @clement137 3 роки тому

    You were nice with Prost. He F.. up 90% of his decisions. Wanted a patriotic car but with no any funds...

    • @zanemarte9877
      @zanemarte9877 Місяць тому

      But what's more bad is that he wanted to stop doing it. In his Beyond The Grid podcast Alain Prost revealed, "Two days before I signed the contract, I told the french president I don't want to do it anymore because this is not what I thought, but he then told me 'Do it for France and we will help you at a later date,' but that never happened."

  • @manoahvanderwolf3259
    @manoahvanderwolf3259 28 днів тому

    It just showed Prost was a great driver, but had no clue on running a team, and all the failure can only be pointed out to Prost, as everything really indicates. Too arrogant, too cocky, too stubborn. The comments he unfair and unexpected troubles against him is BS, that's part of F1. A proper F1 team leader or owner is able to overcome or deal with that, Prost made a 'typical' mess of things. That this is a fact and he hasn't learned of anything and is still as blatantly arrogant, was clear with Renault/Alpine recently. He was on board, but had a fallout, and the team went downwards with him present. That really tells you enough.
    Prost isn't right as a team leader/boss. He might be a benefit as a 'token', as a PR-type of guy, but nothing more. One has to wonder whether Ligier/Prost might have had actual success had they have had a proper team leader, like for example, Briatore. I'm not saying a 'good guy', i'm saying a proper, capable, team leader. Because if despite all this mismanagement and issues Prost managed to get podiums, then imagine if they had a proper team.
    It's actually a bit of a shame for Peugeot, really. And it reminds me of the fallout of Alpine this year, where Alpine blames Renault (Viry) for making incompetent engines, and Viry back at them. Because looking at the results at the end of the season - which makes me curious about 2025 - Ocon and Gasly making success at Interlagos and Gasly getting big points in the final races, showed that the Renault engine actually IS capable, and in the right hands (Oliver and Briatore) actually can perform.

  • @TheElDoctoro24
    @TheElDoctoro24 11 місяців тому

    Alain thought the French had good engineering skills and organisation skills. Alain was wrong

  • @blankpage555
    @blankpage555 2 роки тому

    peugeot went wrong... prost before launch wanted to quit

    • @zanemarte9877
      @zanemarte9877 Рік тому

      In his Beyond The Grid episode, Prost revealed that he told the French President two days before he signed the contract "I don't want to do it anymore this deal is not what I thought and we are going nowhere." Then the French President replied telling Prost "Please do it for France we will help you at a later date." But of course that never happened as the Peugeot name left Formula 1 at the end of 2000 but was still an engine manufacturer to Arrows and Minardi as Asiatech before leaving completely at the end of 2002. Then of course Prost Grand Prix folded completely into bankruptcy just before the start of 2002 because not even the 9th place finish in the 2001 standings was not enough to keep the team moving forward.
      Another thing this guy did not talk about here was that the team was bought by the Phoenix Finance Group but the FIA reviewed it as a brand new team and subject to new entry fees because the buyers despite arguments and evidence presented to the FIA that they have the right to compete in Formula 1 they actually don't because the team doesn't have any legitimy to compete despite buying the ailing Prost Grand Prix team out of bankruptcy.

    • @blankpage555
      @blankpage555 Рік тому

      @@zanemarte9877 it is wrong for tax payer money to go into f1 just as alpine does benefit from it dirextly or indirectly with questionalble guests at its launch and lame results

  • @gdogg3710
    @gdogg3710 2 роки тому

    The problem with Prost was they inherited all the same cultural problems that had held Ligier back and did nothing to address them. As much as I like Prost as a driver, he was F1’s ultimate bad loser and as a result the worst person possible to take over Ligier and run an all French outfit.
    Was a shame what happened to Panis in 1997 though. I remember him well being one of the stars of the early season and he very definitely was never the same driver after that accident. Didn’t seem like a particularly big shunt either to the naked eye, so he was very unlucky to get two busted legs out of it and so long on the side lines…

  • @tubadude07
    @tubadude07 4 роки тому +1

    S/o to Panis.

  • @larrylevious8205
    @larrylevious8205 2 роки тому

    Blame Peugeot ; classic Prost!

    • @zanemarte9877
      @zanemarte9877 Рік тому

      I don't blame Prost. Peugeot was so bad in reliability it's not funny. He should've sticked with Honda to begin with instead of switching for the sake of building a pure French team. Peugeot changed the terms on him from free of charge to contributing a massive amount of his budget for the engines. In his Beyond The Grid podcast from 2018, he said "2 days before I signed the contract, I told the President of France I don't want to do it anymore, but he then told me we will bring in help at a later date but that never happened." Peugeot may have left after 2000, but they were still around as Asiatech for two more years providing engines to Arrows and Minardi.

  • @NorthSideCustomRC
    @NorthSideCustomRC Рік тому

    Cheater winner when head of F1 put thumb on the scales

  • @microbiodebr
    @microbiodebr 2 роки тому

    coopersucar

  • @blankpage555
    @blankpage555 2 роки тому

    Panis was better than Alesi

  • @RenatoIMPERA
    @RenatoIMPERA 4 роки тому +37

    in this sense of patriotism, Fittipaldi Automotive had the same catastrophic results, with the bonus of burying the career of a two-time champion

  • @grahammc3189
    @grahammc3189 4 роки тому +1

    Great video....well made and very informative. Massive Prost fan.