Four-time Formula 1 World Champion Alain Prost has been confirmed to be at the Goodwood Festival of Speed as the event celebrates 75 years of the Formula 1 World Championship. Along with the F1 celebrations, set to be the world’s biggest, this year marks the Frenchman’s 70th birthday and 40 years since his first World Championship in 1985. To mark the occasions, Prost will be back behind the wheel of the McLaren MP4/2B that he drove that season.
Nicknamed “The Professor” for his intelligence and racecraft, Prost is widely considered to be one of the greatest F1 drivers in history, winning the World Championship with McLaren in 1985, 1986, and 1989, and Williams in 1993. He retired with a then-record 51 Grand Prix wins.
In 1988, Prost outscored his legendary Brazilian teammate Ayrton Senna by 105 points to Senna’s 94 over the season, losing out on the championship due to a quirk in the rules that meant he could only count his 11 best scores over 16 races. Along with the MP4/2B, he will also pilot the McLaren-Honda MP4/4 from the 1988 season, the chassis that he won the Mexican, Monaco, and French Grand Prix.
This will make the Frenchman’s third visit to the festival as it sets to host its biggest ever celebration on the 75th anniversary of the Formula 1 World Championship. Alain Prost joins the previously-announced celebration for four-time WorldSBK Champion Carl Fogarty, the biggest celebration of Formula 1, and Gordon Murray Automotive’s impressive Central Feature sculpture. Friday and Saturday tickets are now sold out, with Thursday and limited Sunday tickets remaining at goodwood.com.
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