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How Prost could have been BMW's first champion

Nelson Piquet won the 1983 F1 crown in a Brabham-BMW, but things could have been very different had a deal with Talbot and Alain Prost come together. GARY WATKINS uncovers the remarkable story

Alain Prost could have won the 1983 Formula 1 World Championship. Everyone knows that.

Few know that had things worked out differently three years before he could have done it not with Renault, but aboard a car powered by a BMW-built turbo engine, designed by Gordon Murray and run out of Chessington.

It wouldn't have been a Brabham, rather a Talbot courtesy of ambitious plans put together by former BMW Motorsport boss Jochen Neerpasch in early 1980.

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