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Former F1 Boss Names Alain Prost as the Greatest F1 Driver Ahead of Schumacher and Senna

Published 04/16/2020, 1:51 PM EDT

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The F1 ‘Greatest of All-Time’ debate is one argument that will rage for years and years. Interestingly, former F1 boss, Eddie Jordan, made a surprising pick for the moniker of G.O.A.T. While conventional choices shuffle between Michael Schumacher and the late great Ayrton Senna, Jordan picked Alain Prost over the German and Brazilian.

Admittedly, the G.O.A.T debate has added another candidate, like Lewis Hamilton, but many still fixate on Schumacher and Senna. According to Jordan though, if he had to pick one, it would ‘Le Professeur’ Alain Prost.

“I have a little issue with Michael and people often say to me ‘who was the best driver I ever had’,” Jordan told Off The Ball. “We talk about Frentzen, Fisichella, Barrichello and Irvine. We left a couple of people out – Johnny Herbert, who won a championship with me, and [Jean] Alesi.

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“If you put them all together and you’re asking me who do I think was the best driver… of course Michael had outstanding talent, but so had Senna.”

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Why did he choose Alain Prost?

Jordan is aware that picking the Greatest driver of all-time is not an easy task. He even confessed that he is no stranger to causing controversy with his comments. However, he insisted that neither Senna nor Schumacher were the best. To his knowledge, it was always Prost.

Of course, he also noted that many would find his choice of candidate strange, but the statistics speak for themselves. He admitted that though the Frenchman won four world titles, he lost one by half a point and it could have easily been a 5th. However, Jordan also believes that the 4-time F1 world champion ‘stood the test of time’.

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Eddie Jordan continued, “He now works with us, he’s on French television… and he’s still the same guy. We were on a team in 1979, with the Marlboro world championship team, he was a young kid there like me.

“What he achieved, a young Frenchman back then, was amazing. The one point that stuck out for me more than anyone else – he never minded who his teammate was.”

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