Okay, da Prost für AWE ein verheultes Weichei und für MESSIas10 eine Heulsuse ist, muss ich diese Aussage von
Steve Nichols - einst Sennas Ingenieur wohlgemerkt - posten:
Alain was one of the least political drivers I have ever worked with. That year [1990], if anything, it was Nigel Mansell who was attempting to play politics.
Prost was very quick, quicker than Nigel, better in every respect, especially in developing the car. He didn't speak fluent Italian, like everybody said, but he knew enough to get him by. Nigel didn't and that was a problem - more for himself than anybody else. He needed a reason for why Alain was better: he spoke Italian and, therefore, had ingratiated himself with the team.
Nigel saw me as Prost's man. I can see why, we had come over from McLaren, but why would I work with one half of the team to the detriment of the other? Nigel didn't want to tell me a thing. He just wanted to work with his own race engineer.
In testing, he [Nigel] always wanted to run light, be fast, set a time and go home. He knew the Italian media and fans liked a fast driver, that they would get behind him. Prost's race engineer used to have to force him to fit some quallies on and do a time. Throughout all of this, Prost wanted to work as a team.
In 1991, when Ferrari gave Alain the bullet, he had two problems: he told the truth and he told it to the press. He was not the least bit devious. In fact, if he had a fault it was that he was too upfront.
I was Senna's race engineer at McLaren. We had a good relationship. I didn't see him socially but professionally we hit it off. But I'd have to say that, if either of them had to be deemed political, it was Senna: it was usually Alain reacting to something Ayrton had done.
Prost was just a decent bloke, never a superstar in his actions. He was a multiple champion, but when we arrived at airports there was never any of that straight-to-the-front-of-the-queue sort of thing - he would stand with the rest of the lads, laughing and joking. When Niki beat him to the championship he was pissed off, but that didn't stop him from coming down to the disco to celebrate.
Ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass Massa eine Heulsuse ist aber Prost?! Ich finde es nicht in Ordnung, dass Prost immer als Buhmann dargestellt wird.
Und weil es so schön ist, noch ne kleine Geschichte über Prost.
Peter Dick, Appreciating the Professor: ...
My favourite Alain Prost story, the one that I feel sums up his tactical genius more than any other, surrounds the Italian GP at Monza in 1988. Prost and Senna are locked in an intense championship battle that is between them alone - a McLaren in-house affair. It is late in the season and they can indulge themselves in the races because there is no 3rd party threat - they will finish 1-2 in the championship no matter what. Prost is following Senna closely in the early stages when Alain realizes that he has an engine problem that will surely prove terminal – realizes with certainty that he will not last the race. Knowing this, and knowing Senna’s ego and his need to prove he’s fastest, Prost decides to drive 11/10th’s and push Senna hard, setting fastest lap after fastest lap. Senna takes the bait, and increases his pace to match Prost and maintain or increase his gap. Prost however, is deliberately driving at such a pace as to put himself the wrong side of his fuel reading, leaving him not enough to finish the race. He is making Senna do the same. Now if Senna had really thought about it, he would have realized that Prost simply does not do things like that, that’s he’s too great a thinker to miscalculate his fuel supply. Senna takes the bait however, thinks only of proving he can match Prost’s challenge, be as fast, stay ahead. Half way through the race, Prost duly drops out with engine failure, and the damage to Senna is done. In the late stages he is so marginal on fuel that he’s had to cut back dramatically, and the Ferraris are now breathing down his neck. Senna feels a desperate need to get by a rookie in traffic at a risky place, they collide, and his race is over. It was a long shot on Prost’s part, but his actions did, in the end, have a compromising effect on Senna’s race, even long after Prost had dropped out.
Sitting in our armchairs analyzing this it seems very logical, but to think something like this through in the midst of a race at 180 m.p.h. speaks of a level of genius equal to that which Senna was so much more readily appreciated for. It is a different, more subtle kind of genius in Prost’s case. Those who fail to appreciate Prost as a "racer" are missing the degree to which racing is chess, and not merely an athletic exercise.
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Wenn Massa so etwas durchziehen könnte, dann wäre vieellleeeicht ein Vergleich mit Prost gerechtfertigt aber so ist es nur eine Beleidigung für den Professor! Pippo ist ja mit viel weniger total überfordert!
Und ja, Prost wäre 1989 so oder so WM geworden, da Senna in Australien ausgeschieden ist. Und Balestre hätte Prost schon in Jerez "helfen" können, wenn man für Senna und seine "Farbenblindheit" die gleiche Strafe in Erwägung gezogen hätte, die für Mansell in Estoril ausgesprochen wurde. Dann hätte Senna nämlich entweder beim Jerez- oder Suzuka-Rennen zuschauen dürfen und die WM wäre schon früher entschieden worden! So hatte er eine Ausrede für Suzuka 1990...
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Was ist wirklich dran an Massas problemen letzte saison mit den bridgestone reifen??
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Er ist aber die No. 2 