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Alain Prost — Formula One’s ‘Professor’
Prost’s academic approach to racing earned him the nickname ‘The Professor’. He rarely overexerted his car in the early stages of a race, choosing instead to conserve his breaks and tyres, helping ensure maximum performance towards the finish line and a late bid for the win. His driving style was one of cool-headed logic and solid tactics; asserting, “I hate to risk the car” and “I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.”
The Prost/Senna rivalry has become the stuff of F1 legend — Prost with his methodical, collected driving and Senna with his aggressive, flat-out driving going head to head. Notable incidents during the rivalry include their collision at Suzuka during 1989’s Japanese Grand Prix and Senna deliberately ramming Prost at 160mph the year after, again at the Suzuka race. After Senna’s untimely demise in 1994, Prost said, “When he died, I felt a part of me had died also, because our careers had been so bound together.”
With Prost’s remarkable career, it seems only natural that one of Formula 1’s greats wears arguably the greatest Formula 1-related watch brand around.