Six racers who won their maiden F1 titles alongside champion team mates

Formula 1

Alain Prost (1985)

A name listed among the greats of Formula 1, Alain Prost won his first championship with McLaren in 1985 with three-time champion Niki Lauda as his team mate.

It was also a title triumph that was long in the making, with Prost finishing runner-up in the previous two seasons – famously losing out to Lauda in 1984 by just half a point. But finally Prost would become France’s first F1 champion after finishing top of the 1985 standings ahead of Michele Alboreto, with Lauda only 10th.

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The Austrian would retire at the end of the season and credited Prost for sending him into retirement earlier than planned, saying: “I hated having him as a team mate. I had this perfect car, and then this French pain-in-the-ass arrives and blows me away. If he hadn’t turned up I’d have gone on for another few years.”

Prost would of course go on to seal three more titles across his career and become embroiled in even more heated title battles, including with the next name on our list…

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