Alain Prost’s time as a Formula 1 team boss ended up being one of the unhappiest and least successful periods of his amazing motorsport career.
But it very briefly looked like it would be a glorious success, with a first victory presenting itself as a genuine possibility in what was only the third race at the helm for four-time F1 champion Prost.
Ex-F1 driver Karun Chandhok and Matt Beer join Glenn Freeman on our Bring Back V10s classic F1 stories podcast to relieve the wild events of Prost’s 1997 season and consider just how good it could have been – plus the first signs that it was all going to rapidly go awry.
