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1982 Australian Grand Prix: Prost and Laffite, French connection
Alain Prost in front of Jacques Laffite at the 1982 Australian Grand Prix - Photo: DPPI
The image has entered posterity. Alain Prost, leaping for joy near his McLaren MP4/2C with a dry tank, a few meters after the finish line of the 1986 Australian Grand Prix. An event that saw the Loire native obtain a second world title at the end of the suspense, thanks to a tactical victory. The tablets don't lie: Prost also became the first French winner in the Antipodes. Except that for nearly forty years, the history books have ignored another success at the end of the world for the man who was nicknamed "The Professor". Indeed, Alain Prost recited a perfect first lesson on Australian soil
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