The final race of the annual Trophée Andros ice racing series took place at Super Besse, in the Auvergne, not far from Clermont-Ferrand. Prost went to the last round equal on points with the revelation of the season Benjamin Rivière, a private entrant, with a Skoda Fabia prepared by the Speed Aventure team. He has managed to outrun the Skoda factory team this winter, which includes no less a kine-up than former Grand Prix drivers Olivier Panis, Jacques Villeneuve, Franck Lagorce and Paul Belmondo. Prost was once again leading the three-car Dacia team, which features Evens Stievenart and Nicolas Prost in the other two Dacia Lodgy Glaces.
“I had no choice but to win today,” Prost said. “I had a good feeling with my car and the team’s hard work enabled us to perform strongly in qualifying. We couldn’t afford to put a foot wrong this weekend but we coped with everything very well.”
In the overall standings Prost beat Rivière by five points, while Jean-Philippe Dayraut (Mini Countryman) was just a point behind the Skoda driver. Olivier Panis was fourth overall. It is Prost’s third Trophée Andros title, following his successes with Toyota in 2007 and 2008.
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Prost has now won championships in six decades, from karting championships in the ’60s to Trophée Andros in the ’10s. Allez, Alain!
I always find it funny how you won’t find many Prost fans outside of France…despite him being one of the greatest drivers ever.
I’m a Prost fan and I’m from Northern Ireland
I’m from Australia and think he is better than Senna. /flame shield active/
But seriously I think Alain Prost is quite possibly the best driver ever in F1 as a complete Formula 1 racing driver. He may have quite often lacked speed compared to Senna but made up for it in other areas. While Senna was just trying to go fast, Prost had worked out how he was going to win a race.
Prost is the most underrated F1 WDC IMO. We always hear of Senna doing this and Senna having done that, he has a movie about him and legends, Prost on the other hand beat him, in the same car, twice over two seasons (1 + 1 with the stupid limited races counting rule). He was a few dozen points off being an 8 times WDC well before Schumacher even scored his first.
First thought. Quality will out.
As an outside observer, it would seem more likely that drivers with a background in rallying would do better than the ex GP drivers. (Surely more used to watching the scenery coming at them sideways). This does not seem to be borne out in practice.
Do they not have the profile to get the drives? or is it down to my first thought?
Not bad for a bloke born in 1955…
He’s a pretty good cyclist too.
Joe – how did you find Prost? Was he alright to deal with from a Journo’s perspective? If it’s a slow news day I’d love to hear a few anecdotes about the Professor
Cheers
Julian F
He was fine if you agreed with him.
Well done Alain, my childhood hero. What a great champion, keep having fun.
It seems that the oganizers had adjusted their own rules to allow Prost to repair his car after having been knocked out at the start of the race. The race was red flagged and then restarted after Prost’s car was fixed.
I guess the idea is that once a car is out, it can’t rejoin the race.
Why did Nicolas Prost never make it to F1? I seem to recall he did OK in F3 and F3000, and his surname would surely have opened a few door for him (a la Rosberg, Piquet, Senna etc etc
Because he was not good enough.
So what about the comments elsewhere that rules were broken to get Prost the win?
Bit controversial that race, wouldnt you say?
Jacques got past Alain fair and square at the start, but for some reason the race was red flagged and Jacques sent to the back of the grid.
I guess the red flag is understandable due to safety of the car stuck on the track, but was it right for Alain to be able to restart the race? Seems completely unfair to send Jacques to the back…..
Any thoughts Joe?
I am not getting involved in this. I simply published some results. I am sure that there are ice racing blogs where you can be outraged.
Hah fair enough. Im not outraged in the slightest, just thought it was an interesting story!
U didn’t mention the [alleged] cheating involved in the race. did you ? Prost was helped against the rules wasn’t he ?
PANIS & Villeneuve were fuming after the race
No, I did not. I was simply conveying the result.
I´m sure Prost would have rather had one title as F1 constructor…