Rene Arnoux

[M5Rick]

With seven F1 wins the Frenchman's driving style raised a few eye brows as he listened to no one which is why Renault and then Ferrari let him go as his self esteem was more important than team orders.
Prost himself was fired by Ferrari years later for talking publicly as he tired of their constant in house personal politics when Senna forced him to change teams for his own safety.
I think the article overdoes it by calling his life sad now and his pic is doctored but it can be argued that Senna used defending tactics similar to Arnoux.

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Prost himself was fired by Ferrari years later for talking publicly as he tired of their constant in house personal politics when Senna forced him to change teams for his own safety.

In case you wondered why Alain Prost was fired by Renault in 1983: imagine the hypothetical of Verstappen getting caught red-handed with Geri Halliwell in a hotel room by Christian Horner who unexpectedly returned to his hotel room to pick up his briefcase.

Originally Posted by Artemis

Hm, ain't that a reference to an old juicy rumor about Alain Prost allegedly getting caught 'entertaining' the wife of Renault team principal Gérard L. during the Zandvoort 1983 race weekend (Aug 1983) ? The story goes that team boss L. unexpectedly returned to his room to pick up his briefcase he had forgotten, catching his driver Prost performing some sort of alternative 'cardio training'...

Prost was fired by Renault shortly after the title-deciding final 1983 race (South Africa - Oct 1983) (WDC for Piquet - Prost 2nd).

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by Artemis

In case you wondered why Alain Prost was fired by Renault in 1983: imagine the hypothetical of Verstappen getting caught red-handed with Geri Halliwell in a hotel room by Christian Horner who unexpectedly returned to his hotel room to pick up his briefcase.

Of course that's twice he was fired, bit of a lad was our Prost in the early eighties.