How delightful to read the interview with Alain Prost [It sounds like a joke but Iam completely underrated, March]. Iam sure it will relaunch the debate on who was greater between Senna and himself, so let me add my two cents.
There was a period from 1984-1987 when Prost was indisputably the best as well as the fastest. Not many others reigned for a longer period than that. Fangio and Moss perhaps. Schumacher and Hamilton in later years, at a time when careers lasted much longer. The domination of Clark, Stewart or Lauda did not last much longer, if at all. Senna arguably never dominated in the same way as Prost did.
Was Senna faster than Prost? In a given car, without any leeway to improve it, I would say yes. But Prost had the better technical input (the benefits of which Senna also reaped when they shared the same car) and the better racecraft. When Prost
