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Nicolas Jean Prost (born 18 August 1981) is a French professional racing driver. He competed in theFIA Formula E Championship between 2014 and 2018. Previously, he was a longstanding racer in theFIA World Endurance Championship forLotus Rebellion Racing. He competes in theAndros Trophy. He was a reserve driver for the now defunctLotus F1 team. He is a son of four-time Formula One world championAlain Prost.
Born inSaint-Chamond, Loire, and despite being the oldest son of four-timeFormula One World Drivers' championAlain Prost and his wife Anne-Marie,[1] he started his career at the late age of 22 in Formula Campus. He was born 2 days after his father had competed in the1981 Austrian Grand Prix. Like his father, Prost is a golfer, and has won numerous tournaments during his tenure atColumbia University inNew York.
In 2006, he joined Racing Engineering to contest in theSpanish Formula Three Championship. He won one race and had six podiums, which earned him 4th place in the championship as well as the best rookie title.
In 2007, he finished third in theSpanish Formula Three Championship with 2 wins, 1 pole and 7 podiums.
In 2008, he joined Bull Racing and won the Euroseries 3000 championship in his first year with one win, two poles and seven podiums.[1]
For A1 GP season 3 (2007–2008), Nicolas was the rookie driver for Team France.
For A1 GP season 4 (2008–2009), Nicolas was still the rookie driver and topped every single rookie sessions. He was promoted to racing driver for the end of the season and showed that he had the pace to fight on top. The team issued in a statement at the end of the seasons that he should be driving the entire 2009–2010 season.
In 2007, he competed with Team Oreca in a Saleen S7-R withLaurent Groppi andJean-Philippe Belloc and finished 5th in his category.
In 2009, he raced for the first time in the LMP1 category, with Speedy Racing Team Sebah. He drove a great race, especially on Sunday morning with a stunning quadruple stint which moved the car from 8th to 5th. Unfortunately, a gearbox problem later dropped the car to 14th.
After a difficult year in 2010, where he nonetheless drove the fastest lap of rebellion cars, he had a great race in 2011. Prost and his teammates Jani and Bleekemolen finished 6th and 1st in the unofficial petrol class.
In the 80th edition of the24 Hours of Le Mans in 2012, Prost and theRebellion Racing Team got the fourth place in the LM-P1 class along with his co-driversNeel Jani andNick Heidfeld, theirLola B12/60 Coupe Toyota covered a total of 367 laps (3,108.123 miles), in theCircuit de la Sarthe. Prost drove the last stage of the competition.[2]
In 2009, he participated in the EuropeanLe Mans Series for Speedy Racing Team Sebah alongsideMarcel Fässler andAndrea Belicchi. The trio finished 5th in the championship.Since 2010 he is racing in the EuropeanLe Mans Series for Rebellion Racing alongside Swiss racing driverNeel Jani.
In 2012 and 2013, Prost competed in theFIA World Endurance Championship withRebellion Racing in a LMP1-class Lola B12/60 Toyota. With his mate Neel Jani, they won 9 races in these two years in the LMP1 privateer category. He will race the new Rebellion R-One in the2014 FIA World Endurance Championship season. Prost has won the first four races of 2014 in the LMP1-L Category and has already clinched the title in the category.
Prost clinched back to back victories at Petit Le Mans in 2012 and 2013. He also finished 3rd in the Sebring 12 Hours in 2013.
During the 2009–2010 winter, Prost participated to the famousAndros Trophy ice racing series in the electrical car category. He clinched the championship with 5 poles, 6 wins, and 18 podiums out of 21 races. He successfully defended his title during the 2010–2011 winter.
In 2011–2012, he joined his dad in the works Dacia team and claimed the rookie title in the main series.
In 2010, he drove a Renault F1 for the first time in Magny-Cours and impressed the team, beating his daily opponent by more than 2 seconds.
In 2011, he joined the gravity management structure and remained a driver for Lotus Renault F1. He drove some test sessions and straight line tests for the team, as well as some commercial roadshows.
In 2012, he remained a part of the Lotus Renault program and on 4 October 2012 it was announced that he would be testing with Lotus Renault Formula One during the young driver test at Abu Dhabi.[3]
In 2013, he was still test and development driver for Lotus. He drove the rookie test in Silverstone where he posted the absolute fastest lap among the rookies and was only three tenths behind Vettel in the Red Bull.
In 2014, he remained test and development driver for Lotus.
On 30 June 2014, Prost signed up for the inauguralFIA Formula E Championship with the teame.dams Renault.[4] At the first race in Beijing, Prost became the first man to achieve apole position in Formula E. He led the race until the last lap in the last corner where he was involved in a heavy crash withNick Heidfeld. Prost turned into Heidfeld's car when he was being challenged into the last corner, lunging Heidfeld's car into a barrier. He later apologised for the incident.[5] He was subsequently given a ten place grid penalty for the following race in Malaysia.[6] In the second race in Putrajaya, Malaysia, he took pole position again but was given a ten place grid penalty carried from the previous race. He took his first win inMiami, despite a late challenge fromScott Speed. He would end up finishing the season in 6th place in the standings. The following season would be the highlight of his Formula E career, as he had finished 3rd in the final standings of the2015-16 Formula E championship.
† As Prost was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 |  Team Oreca | Laurent GroppiJean-Philippe Belloc | Saleen S7-R | GT1 | 337 | 10th | 5th |
| 2009 |  Speedy Racing Team Sebah Automotive |  Andrea BelicchiNeel Jani | Lola B08/60-Aston Martin | LMP1 | 342 | 14th | 12th |
| 2010 | Rebellion Racing | Neel Jani Marco Andretti | Lola B10/60-Rebellion | LMP1 | 175 | DNF | DNF |
| 2011 | Rebellion Racing | Neel Jani Jeroen Bleekemolen | Lola B10/60-Toyota | LMP1 | 338 | 6th | 6th |
| 2012 | Rebellion Racing |  Nick HeidfeldNeel Jani | Lola B12/60-Toyota | LMP1 | 367 | 4th | 4th |
| 2013 | Rebellion Racing | Nick HeidfeldNeel Jani | Lola B12/60-Toyota | LMP1 | 275 | 39th | 7th |
| 2014 | Rebellion Racing | Nick HeidfeldMathias Beche | Rebellion R-One-Toyota | LMP1-L | 360 | 4th | 1st |
| 2015 | Rebellion Racing | Nick HeidfeldMathias Beche | Rebellion R-One-AER | LMP1 | 330 | 23rd | 10th |
| 2016 | Rebellion Racing | Nick Heidfeld Nelson Piquet Jr. | Rebellion R-One-AER | LMP1 | 330 | 29th | 6th |
| 2017 | Vaillante Rebellion | Bruno SennaJulien Canal | Oreca 07-Gibson | LMP2 | 340 | 16th | 14th |
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Graff Racing | ZOL 1 25 | ZOL 2 16 | VAL 1 25 | VAL 2 24 | LMS 1 | LMS 2 | BIL 1 | BIL 2 | OSC 1 | OSC 2 | DON 1 | DON 2 | EST 1 | EST 2 | MNZ 1 | MNZ 2 | 42nd | 0 |
| Year | Entrant | Class | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Rank | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Speedy Racing Team Sebah Automotive | LMP1 | Lola B08/60 | Aston Martin 6.0 L V12 | CAT 7 | SPA 8 | ALG Ret | NÜR 6 | SIL 2 | 10th | 14 |
| 2010 | Rebellion Racing | LMP1 | Lola B10/60 | Rebellion (Judd) 5.5 L V10 | CAS 7 | SPA Ret | ALG 2 | HUN 2 | SIL 5 | 7th | 52 |
| 2011 | Rebellion Racing | LMP1 | Lola B10/60 | Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L V8 | CAS 3 | SPA 7 | IMO 6 | SIL Ret | EST 3 | 3rd | 37 |
| Year | Entrant | Class | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Rebellion Racing | LMP1 | Lola B10/60 | Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L V8 | SEB 7 | SPA 7 | LEM 6 | IMO 6 | SIL Ret | PET 5 | ZHU 4 |
| Year | Entrant | Class | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Rank | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Rebellion Racing | LMP1 | Lola B12/60 | Toyota (RV8KLM 3.4 L V8) | SEB 17 | SPA 5 | LMS 3 | SIL 6 | SÃO 4 | BHR 4 | FUJ 4 | SHA Ret | 4th | 86.5 | |
| 2013 | Rebellion Racing | LMP1 | Lola B12/60 | Toyota (RV8KLM 3.4 L V8) | SIL 5 | SPA 5 | LMS 20 | SÃO 3 | COA 4 | FUJ | SHA 4 | BHR Ret | 6th | 60 | |
| 2014 | Rebellion Racing | LMP1 | Lola B12/60 | Toyota (RV8KLM 3.4 L V8) | SIL 4 | SPA 7 | LMS 4 | COA 7 | FUJ 12 | SHA 7 | BHR 7 | SÃO 8 | 10th | 64.5 | |
| 2015 | Rebellion Racing | LMP1 | Rebellion R-One | AER P60 2.4 L Turbo V6 | SIL | SPA | LMS 19 | NÜR 16 | COA 15 | FUJ 7 | SHA 7 | BHR 14 | 14th | 14.5 | |
| 2016 | Rebellion Racing | LMP1 | Rebellion R-One | AER P60 2.4 L Turbo V6 | SIL 4 | SPA 4 | LMS 13 | NÜR 17 | MEX | COA | FUJ | SHA | BHR | 14th | 25.5 |
| 2017 | Vaillante Rebellion | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | SIL 2 | SPA 2 | LMS 6 | NÜR | MEX 1 | COA 3 | FUJ 1 | SHA 1 | BHR 1 | 3rd | 168 |
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Chassis | Powertrain | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–15 | e.dams Renault | SparkSRT01-e | SRT01-e | BEI 12† | PUT 4 | PDE 7 | BUE 2 | MIA 1 | LBH 14 | MCO 6 | BER 10 | MSC 8 | LDN 7 | LDN 10 | 6th | 88 | |
| 2015–16 | Renault e.dams | SparkSRT01-e | Renault Z.E 15 | BEI Ret | PUT 10 | PDE 5 | BUE 5 | MEX 3 | LBH 11 | PAR 4 | BER 4 | LDN 1 | LDN 1 | 3rd | 115 | ||
| 2016–17 | Renault e.dams | SparkSRT01-e | Renault Z.E 16 | HKG 4 | MRK 4 | BUE 4 | MEX 5 | MCO 9 | PAR 5 | BER 5 | BER 8 | NYC 8 | NYC 6 | MTL 6 | MTL Ret | 6th | 93 |
| 2017–18 | Renault e.dams | SparkSRT01-e | Renault Z.E 17 | HKG 9 | HKG 8 | MRK 13 | SCL 10 | MEX Ret | PDE 15 | RME 14 | PAR 16 | BER 14 | ZUR Ret | NYC 10 | NYC 11 | 19th | 8 |
† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
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| Preceded by | Euroseries 3000 Champion 2008 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by Inaugural | Andros Trophy Électrique Champion 2010–11, 2011–12 | Succeeded by Christophe Ferrier |
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