A single-seater with the legendary red and white livery giving off sparks, hugs with the German engine manufacturers of TAG-Porsche or long one-on-one debriefings with Ron Dennis, while biting your nails… The picture book about the relationship between the McLaren team and Alain Prost is extremely rich. However, the beginnings of the relationship between the English team and the future French standard-bearer of motorsport were not an idyll.
The scene occurs on the banks of the St. Lawrence River in Montreal (Canada). François Guiter, aka “Monsieur Elf”, encouraged his colt to fly to North America, where the great F1 barnum is finishing his 1979 season. Prost travels with journalists Éric Bhat and Jean-Louis Moncet. The trio sleeps in the same room! Astonishment spreads across the paddock during testing,
