F1: Top 5 French Drivers of all time

#1 Alain Prost

Alain Prost is the only Frenchman to have won an F1 driver's title.

The top spot on this list could only have ever belonged to this man.

Alain Prost is the only Frenchman to have won a Formula 1 driver's championship and The Professor achieved this four times. To put that into perspective, only Michael Schumacher, Juan Manuel Fangio and Lewis Hamilton have more world titles to their names and only these three men and Sebastian Vettel have more GP victories.

Prost is one of those drivers that always seemed to be challenging at the sharp end, despite sometimes not being in the fastest car. The best example of this is his 1986 title win, where he beat both Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell being in much faster Williams cars.

Consistency was the aim of Prost's game, with over 100 podiums to his name in an era when reliability was much worse than today. In addition to his four title wins, he also finished runner-up as many times, with the aforementioned reliability (especially during his Renault days) costing him a fifth crown.

Simply put, Prost is one of the best drivers ever and some say the greatest, as he won races and challenged for driver's championships at Renault, McLaren, Ferrari and Williams.

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