No more Prost Grandprix Team

Well, as of today the team has been liquidated and will not make the grid in Melbourne... That's what big money does. If you aren't backed by a manufacturer, you won't make it...

Comments?

so there's no more Prost Peugot team?

i guess it evens out since Toyota is joining this season

Originally posted by ales
Well, as of today the team has been liquidated and will not make the grid in Melbourne... That's what big money does. If you aren't backed by a manufacturer, you won't make it...

Comments?

Well Alex, I think this is really bad. I have always been a fan of Prost as the great driver he was. He's been known by his character, not the best from what I remember. So I guess that is what happens when a bad character is the boss. I mean, he has Peugeot, but did not got them really interested in keeping the F1 proyect alive, they went to rally 100% and exclusively.
He wanted a 100% French team, Renault had been known to be interested in returning to F1 since 2 years before they bought Benneton, and they don't went to prost. So I think, HE is the problem. Aparently he does not have the charistma as team manager.

A real shame, I really liked the blue cars.

Originally posted by RCer
A real shame, I really liked the blue cars.

there's still Benneton:)

There is no more benneton, now it's Renault, and they are light blue and yellow.

I liked the intense Blue on Prost cars. I think they were one of the most beautifull car on the last years grid.

Originally posted by RCer

I liked the intense Blue on Prost cars. I think they were one of the most beautifull car on the last years grid.

Yeah, French Racing Blue... Just like the old days:

British Racing Green (Jaguar)
German Silver (McLaren)
Italian Red (Guess!)
but no more french Blue :(. The Renault is too light blue and too much yellow to take Prost's place in the colour scheme.

Originally posted by ales
The Renault is too light blue and too much yellow to take Prost's place in the colour scheme.

what is 'benneton' called now?
just renault? no other title sponsor?

Originally posted by NSX


what is 'benneton' called now?
just renault? no other title sponsor?

Yes, just Renault. Maybe there will be a title sponsor, but there will not be two names for chassis and engine manufacturers - Renault builds both,m just like Ferrari... Well, a bit qorse than Ferrari ;)

isn't ferrari called Schuteria Ferrari, or something like that

i remember when i used prost in my 64 game F1 World Championship...using Shinji Nakano:(

Originally posted by NSX
isn't ferrari called Schuteria Ferrari, or something like that

i remember when i used prost in my 64 game F1 World Championship...using Shinji Nakano:(

It's called Scuderia (!) Ferrari, but scuderia is nothing else than "stables" in Italian.

Originally posted by ales
Yeah, French Racing Blue... Just like the old days:

British Racing Green (Jaguar)
German Silver (McLaren)
Italian Red (Guess!)
but no more french Blue :(. The Renault is too light blue and too much yellow to take Prost's place in the colour scheme.

Yep. Lot's of folks don't realize there are national racing colours.

Great Britain - Green
German - Silver
France - Blue
Italy - Red
USA - Blue and White
Japan - Red and White

I know there are more, but I cannot remember them. I'm guessing that New Zealand is Orange, hense the traditional McLaren Orange.

Anybody have more colours?

I'm very much into traditions. My Porshe 944 race car is going to be painted blue with white stripes for the USA national colours with silver mixed into the stripes for the German colours (since it's a German car).

:D

Originally posted by NSX
so there's no more Prost Peugot team?

There hasn't been a Prost Pigout team in at least two years. They ran Ferrari engines the last two years.

Originally posted by P10DET


There hasn't been a Prost Pigout team in at least two years. They ran Ferrari engines the last two years.

Not quite ;) In 2000 they still used Pug engines, in 2001 - rebadged Ferrai engines (rebadged as Acer:bloated:) - as did Sauber (rebadges as Petronas) to some formidable success - they managed 4th in the constructors' championship.

Originally posted by P10DET


Anybody have more colours?


Of course I do! :):rolleyes:

Here is one http://www.racer.demon.nl/6thgear/colors.html
and here is two: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/8750/colors.html

hmm...what's Canadian??