Prost’s final fling
Having spent 1992 on the sidelines after his departure from Ferrari, Alain joined Williams seeking redemption
Prost at Magny-Cours where he’d take his fifth win of ’93
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With Nigel Mansell gone and new team-mate Damon Hill finding his feet, the path was clear for Alain Prost to make the most of the opportunity to drive the best car on the grid.
“Alain was very good to work with, very precise,” recalls Adrian Newey. “But also frustrating at times. Pre-season in ’93, we were at Estoril or Barcelona, and our lap times weren’t looking good. And we all started to get a bit twitchy – have we actually been overtaken here? And Damon of course was still getting himself up to speed.
“Basically, Alain had been playing around. He was doing the old thing of doing a few corners, but never worrying about stringing a lap together. So then finally, he said, ‘OK I’m going to put a lap together,’ and he went a second quicker or something!