Alain Prost on the project Prost Grand Prix

A year ago four-time world champion Alain Prost in an exclusive interview so remembered about the different stages of his career in Formula 1: "As a racer I have achieved everything I dreamed of. I don't have anything to regret, because all of the race you can't win. But, of course, will never forget how I was the owner of the team Prost Grand Prix. The challenges I faced, was not related to sports. I felt a constant hard pressure, we had all sorts of difficulties, especially financial, so I don't miss those days".
In the February issue of F1 Racing Simple spoke in detail about that period, which lasted five years, from 1997 to 2001: "to Do that I didn't want. I knew that in France we will be very very difficult, but the political situation was such that I had to undertake this project. However, if you consider all aspects, I think we have worked out not too bad, especially if we remember our relationship with Peugeot (1998 and 2000 machines Prost stood motors Peugeot): the relationship was unimportant because the company didn't want to invest their money...
Don't want to go into details, but we paid for the engines $28 million , and a year later, this amount was increased to $32 million will Remember what happened with Brabham, c Jaguar and other teams; look, what is happening in France today: what can you do in this situation?
And still, it was good. Actually, the experience was somehow useful. The only thing I regret: I think we needed one more year, and then we would have proved that the team could do better. But it was extremely difficult to find money to continue to compete in the Formula 1.
And I was glad when it ended: in those days, my phone was constantly burning, I was leaving from work at night, not before eleven... With people who wanted to buy our team of incredible stories, and someday I will write a book about it".