Members reportedly include Microsoft head Bill Gates, and Formula One champion Alain Prost .

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The only other driver to even reach 50 was Alain Prost with 51.

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McLaren's Alain Prost won the title at the final race of the season.

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They had the best two drivers (Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost), the best engine (Honda) and around it all, the best organisation.

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Members reportedly include Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) head Bill Gates, and Formula One champion Alain Prost .

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He is McLaren's first world champion since Mika Hakkinen in 1999, and joins a club that includes his hero Ayrton Senna and all-time greats Alain Prost and Niki Lauda.

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That's just as well - because they look like needing every drop in the most competitive title run-in since the epic battle between Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet and eventual champion Alain Prost in 1986.

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But despite winning nine constructors' titles -- a record bettered only by Ferrari -- and seven drivers' championships, the marque which once employed legendary racers such as Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna has stuttered in recent years.

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After an enthralling race on Suzuka's figure-of-eight circuit, Vettel joined the list of champions, which includes Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost and Damon Hill, who have been crowned in Japan and becomes only the ninth driver to take back-to-back titles.

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He had all that was required for beatification in the sport: not just the nerveless charisma, the looks, and the easeful love of speed but, more important, a rival the Frenchman Alain Prost, dour by comparison, with whom Senna would clash wheels more than once.

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