"You need to be young, you need to be trained to do that after the karting. "These modern cars are not for us," he laughed. Prost explained that modern-day cars are less intuitive for him, and that drivers nowadays have to learn a much more specific style of driving in order to get the most out of them. The way you brake, the car goes on a little bit on the front." "I could feel everything, I could feel the pedal, I could feel the wind, I could feel the grip. I drove the car with a mechanical gearbox, obviously, with the clutch, and what I felt 30 years before came back in about half a lap. "I drove my car from '85, I had the exact same shoes, overalls, helmet and the car had the same pedal positions when I left the car like this. It's the ergonomics also in the car was much, much better than what we had, but the feeling was not the same. "These cars are not very different in terms of technology, but they are all perfect. In the same week I drove the Lotus, I drove the Red Bull modern cars. "But I remember in the last few years, I drove a modern Formula 1 car, and I also drove my car from 1985, that was in Austria.
"The driver can adapt himself to all kinds of cars, and I asked the question myself," said Prost. Prost recalled his experiences, contemporary or otherwise, and told th e Prost in the Paddock podcast which he'd prefer to have raced with as a Grand Prix driver if he had the choice again.
In recent years, he drove the Red Bull RB8 at Silverstone, as well as experiencing a day in the RB6 at Paul Ricard. Prost, who retired from Formula 1 at the end of the 1993 season after winning the title that year, has dabbled with occasional test drives of modern machinery. Alain Prost has spoken about the differences between a modern Formula 1 car and the cars he raced with back in the 1980s and early '90s.
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