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Post by Big Blue on Jan 17, 2022 22:30:53 GMT
That was a pun if your German’s any good.
Leaves his role with Alpine and is pretty pissed off with it leaking all over the media before an agreed news-release date. He said he’s left because of a personal relationship in the team and points out that the manner of this news leak upholds his view that he’s done the correct thing.
Was always one of my favourite drivers and behaved well at all times. For those of you that are misguided: he was a better season-long driver than Senna, who was exceptional over short bursts and pole laps. However neither could hold a candle to Nigel’s car control and immense testes.
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Post by Martin on Jan 18, 2022 8:30:53 GMT
That was a pun if your German’s any good. Leaves his role with Alpine and is pretty pissed off with it leaking all over the media before an agreed news-release date. He said he’s left because of a personal relationship in the team and points out that the manner of this news leak upholds his view that he’s done the correct thing. Was always one of my favourite drivers and behaved well at all times. For those of you that are misguided: he was a better season-long driver than Senna, who was exceptional over short bursts and pole laps. However neither could hold a candle to Nigel’s car control and immense testes. I agree with all of that. I haven’t seen anything about Prost leaving, need to catch up. |
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Post by Tim on Jan 18, 2022 9:06:51 GMT
Didn't even know he was there! At school we had an economics teacher who looked like Prost's older brother but we still referred to him as Alan  |
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Post by PetrolEd on Jan 18, 2022 10:03:41 GMT
Agreed Prost was quick and more then a safe pair of hands. He also goes into the ruthless category as he biffed off Senna at Suzuka in 88 was it?
Must have something to do with the change in team bosses at Alpine which I couldn't understand why the ditched Marcin Budkowski.
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Post by Big Blue on Jan 18, 2022 11:51:01 GMT
Agreed Prost was quick and more then a safe pair of hands. He also goes into the ruthless category as he biffed off Senna at Suzuka in 88 was it? ’89. It’s a long running argument that Prost had the line and Senna was a twat or Prost was the aggressor. In ‘88 Prost comprehensively out scored Senna but the best 11 scores gave Senna the title, which after his impatience at the Italian GP he scarcely deserved. If you look back at Renault turbo unreliability, the half-point loss to Lauda, the ‘88 best 11 races and Senna’s deliberate collision in ‘90 it’s clear Prost could’ve had 8 titles before Schumacher even arrived on the scene. But as Murray always said “IF is F1 backwards.” |
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Post by ChrisM on Jan 18, 2022 18:29:10 GMT
That was a pun if your German’s any good. Guessed it might be a German pun of the wurst sort as I'm currently learning German on line. As I still remember a lot of my schoolboy French, one thing has always puzzled me about Prost, that of his nickname being "The Professor". This stems from the French "Le Professeur" (hope I have the spelling correct) which in English means the school teacher, not professor |
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Post by Stuntman on Jan 18, 2022 20:51:06 GMT
Prost was an excellent driver but he wasn't as good an overtaker as Senna and Mansell, if memory serves. He was a little more cautious than they were, especially when it came to lapping slower cars which of course didn't jump out of the way quite as readily as they are expected to do nowadays.
I still rated him hugely though as a driver, certainly more consistently fast that the other two. And probably much less of an arse than Mansell to work with apparently.
I'm not up to speed on the machinations at Alpine but I expect that Prost will have been true to his own ethical, moral and professional standards. It would be a foolish team of any sort to mistreat someone of Prost's experience and expertise.
I wish him well.
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Post by Big Blue on Jan 18, 2022 20:51:49 GMT
Yeah but English don’t really use foreign words correctly. I recall there was a column in Punch called Let’s Parler Franglais where words were blended across the languages to mean whatever the writer chose. Chaucer used the same practice and being British we care not about importing words but the French detest any form of Anglicisation. For that reason it’s all the more amusing that Le Professeur was best known for plying his trade at le Weekend.
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Post by Stuntman on Jan 18, 2022 21:01:25 GMT
Liberte, egalite, aujourd 'hui c'est tres tres tres  *can't be bothered to do the acute and grave accents |
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