Brooks, who originally trained as a dentist, isn't one of Britain's more high-profile former F1 race winners, the racer nonetheless still more than carved his name into the history books across just 38 starts between 1956 and 1961.
A look at the illustrious career of the founder and team principal of Williams, which won the constructors' championship nine times between 1980 and 1997.
Four World Championships, 51 wins, and a podium strike rate of better than one in two shows just how consistent Alain Prost proved to be over his 13 years in the sport. That's why he fully deserves his place among the elite.
It's easy to forget that but for a handful of points it would have been Irvine, and not Michael Schumacher, who would have ended Ferrari's two-decade Drivers' Championship drought at the turn of the century.