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Prost: Turbo era will favour strategic and very calculating drivers
Prost: Turbo era will favour strategic and very calculating drivers 24 June, 2013 Alain Prost drives the trubo charged Renault RE30 at the 1981 Dutch GP Renault ambassador and four-times Formula 1 world champion Alain Prost spent a good chunk of his career driving big horse-power turbo engine Formula 1 cars in the ‘first' turbo era of the sport.
He reflects on those days and looks ahead to the ‘second' turbo era which begins in 2014.
What was the first turbo era like for the drivers ?
Alain Prost: If you go back to the start of the 1980s, it was all about response time : there was a lag of two to three seconds. We saw turbo engines develop every year, there were improvements...
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