In 1995, when Prost was working for Renault, people began to assume that a Prost-Renault team would be formed in the near future.
Prost in John Barnard, nekdanji glavni dizajner McLarna, sta bila blizu ustanovitvi moštva leta 1990, toda zaradi pomanjkanja sponzorskih sredstev to ni bilo mogoče, zato je Prost prestopil v Ferrari.