Dn his career, Alain Prost set 41 best laps in 199 Grand Prix. “The Professor”, as he was nicknamed, beat the clock 41 times, but won 51 times. Cerebral when his teammates were instinctive, patient and meticulous, the quadruple Formula 1 champion has never experienced speed as an end in itself. What mattered to him was to prepare his car as well as possible to win. A particular time management in a discipline that is wrongly considered as a simple battle against the passage of time.
In his single-seater, the driver must go fast without getting impatient. The best are those who know how to wait, stuck behind a slower car, and in a fraction of a second seize the opportunity to overtake without fear, without error. Guest of…