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Tuesday, February 27
Preview: Prost
Reuters

LONDON -- Following are facts and figures about the Prost team heading into the 2001 Formula One season:

2001 Outlook

Could well end the season as the most-improved team of 2001, with a new Ferrari engine and new staff. It would be hard for them to do worse than 2000, when they failed to score. Jean Alesi is the oldest driver in Formula One but is still fast at 36 and has put in some startling times in recent testing. He will carry most of the team's expectations. Argentine team mate Gaston Mazzacane brings a welcome injection of sponsorship but may struggle to score a first point.

Based: Guyancourt, France.

Team principal: Alain Prost

Drivers:
Jean Alesi (France), 36 (born June 11, 1964)
Gaston Mazzacane (Argentina), 25 (May 8, 1975)

Test driver: Pedro de la Rosa (Spain), 29 (Feb 24, 1971)

Car: AP04, powered by Ferrari V10 engine.
Tires: Michelin.
Technical director: Henri Durand.

Formula One record:
Grand Prix: Starts 66, poles 0, wins 0.
As Ligier: Starts 326, poles nine, wins nine
First GP entered: Australia 1997.

2000 season (Alesi/Nick Heidfeld): 11th, 0 points. eighth x1, ninth x3, 10th x1, 11th x1, 12th x3, 14th x1, 16th x1, disqualified x1, retired x22.

Team history
1977 - Ligier's first grand prix win, with Jacques Laffite in Sweden.
1996 - Frenchman Olivier Panis wins at Monaco for Ligier's last win.
1997 - Makes debut after takeover of French Ligier team led by former world champion Alain Prost. Ligier founded in 1976 by French rugby star and F1 amateur Guy Ligier.
1998 - Technical director John Barnard, who worked with Prost at McLaren, signed from Arrows.
1999 - Former Stewart designer Alan Jenkins joins.
2000 - Engine suppliers Peugeot announce they quitting Formuila One. Brazilian former GP driver Pedro Diniz buys "significant" stake in the team. Spaniard Joan Villadelprat joins as managing director with Frenchman Henri Durand appointed techincal director. Ferrari engines secured.

Season by season (year, standing, points, drivers):
1997 - sixth, 21 points (Olivier Panis/Shinji Nakano/Jarno Trulli).
1998 - ninth, one point (Panis/Trulli).
1999 - seventh, nine points (Panis/Trulli).

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