Prost considers the reform too brutal

Alain Prost is always a man listened to. Driver in 199 Grands Prix F1, team boss during 83 events, the “professor” has quite a background within the king of motor sports. Also, the Frenchman keeps a watchful eye on the hustle and bustle in the paddock. Alain Prost notably returned, for Europe 1, to the limitation of budgets that the FIA ​​wishes to put in place in 2010. For the former McLaren driver, Ferrari et Williams, the historic teams have too much to lose in this championship, if the FIA ​​favors teams with controlled budgets. “ The new 2010 regulations want to limit F1 budgets, which is not stupid? but too brutal. A big manufacturer is there to do marketing, to show that it has the best technology. It is inconceivable for him to enter a championship where he knows in advance that he will be beaten by small teams who have no experience in Formula 1. »

Alain Prost also returned to the French Grand Prix project. While Flins seemed ideally placed to become the venue for the future French Formula 1 GP, things are now moving slowly. But the former pilot is not worried: “ I hope that things will be resolved because it is the will of the F1 community, that of the government which asked me to be the mediator some time ago. The general council of Yvelines voted for the project unanimously. A circuit around Paris is not just a circuit, it is a global event, which represents a lot and brings in foreign currency. At the ecological level, there are problems which are known, and which are in the process of being resolved when they have not already been. »