what i have rn of an alain hat collection

I really love Alan from the manga... so here's Alain with the pointy face part two!

So, forty years ago, on October 6th, 1985, the long-enduring curse of France never getting a single driver of theirs an F1 championship title was finally broken by Alain Prost - to this day still the most succesful French driver in F1 history.

I, uh, don't own anything from 1985. Perhaps I should, but I don't. So, instead, I have an article from Sport-Auto issue 217, dated February 1980, that introduces (or reintroduces) the readers to their newest French driver in F1. Alain had already debuted by that point, and had even scored his first championship in his very first F1 GP in Argentina, but the article is nonetheless introducing him as an F1 driver now, after having followed him since his Formule Renault days. He even gets to talk about how he got to McLaren, replacing fellow Frenchman Patrick Tambay there.

Notable thing: the line "Watson like a big brother".

1990 Suzuki