Members reportedly include Microsoft head Bill Gates, and Formula One champion Alain Prost .
The only other driver to even reach 50 was Alain Prost with 51.
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McLaren's Alain Prost won the title at the final race of the season.
They had the best two drivers (Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost), the best engine (Honda) and around it all, the best organisation.
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Members reportedly include Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) head Bill Gates, and Formula One champion Alain Prost .
His six wins at the famous Monaco Grand Prix is an unparalleled feat, while his championship duels with McLaren teammate Prost were pure sporting theatre.
Senna's win-at-all-costs approach was epitomized in 1990 when he led Prost in the championship heading into the year's penultimate race -- the Japanese Grand Prix.
Igual que Senna, Prost o Piquet, tuvo una vida privada reservada.
Prost, starting in second position, overtook polesitter Senna off the line.
As Mr. Kapadia edges us toward the abyss of Senna's death, the tragic undertones of Mr. Prost's statement and other fateful notes of premonition sound louder.
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He is McLaren's first world champion since Mika Hakkinen in 1999, and joins a club that includes his hero Ayrton Senna and all-time greats Alain Prost and Niki Lauda.
But, knowing if neither driver finished Senna would be crowned champion, the Brazilian forced Prost off the track at the first corner and cemented a second world title success.
Luckily, a timely opportunity did present itself in that the French element of the F3 team were in contact with the French Prost F1 team, raving about Button's ability.
That's just as well - because they look like needing every drop in the most competitive title run-in since the epic battle between Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet and eventual champion Alain Prost in 1986.
"When you had Prost and Senna fighting it out in the same team, there's no question to the caliber of each driver, very different personalities and great drivers, " 1996 world champion Damon Hill told CNN.
Is it sharply tilted against Mr. Prost?
WSJ: Ayrton Senna | Aggression With Lucidity | By Richard B. Woodward
But despite winning nine constructors' titles -- a record bettered only by Ferrari -- and seven drivers' championships, the marque which once employed legendary racers such as Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna has stuttered in recent years.
After an enthralling race on Suzuka's figure-of-eight circuit, Vettel joined the list of champions, which includes Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost and Damon Hill, who have been crowned in Japan and becomes only the ninth driver to take back-to-back titles.
He had all that was required for beatification in the sport: not just the nerveless charisma, the looks, and the easeful love of speed but, more important, a rival the Frenchman Alain Prost, dour by comparison, with whom Senna would clash wheels more than once.
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