Reynard
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Prost was a superb driver, but he really didn’t ever get bad cars. He also mastered the dummy spit. It cost him his place at Ferrari. When they did give him a ( relatively) poor car, he sulked and moaned ( publicly) and ended up being very publicly booted out of the team.
His first year at Mclaren he had a crap car (1980), then he moved to Renault, which wasn't on the level of Brabham or even the normally aspirated Williams. He really only got a decent car during his second stint at McLaren, when they ran the TAG-Porsche turbo, and then later, the Honda.
As for Ferrari he still managed to get the better of Mansell in 1990 by some margin.
The problem with Ferrari is that they don't take criticism on the chin terribly well - they never have.