Alan Jones

Biography

Alan Jones is resulting from a medium in which the automobile race has a special character: his/her father, Stan Jones, were a pilot of value but which refused to begin in Europe. Heredity was going to impose its laws to the Alan young person, who engaged in his turn in the automobile sport. In 1967, the Australian young person had to be exiled in England to continue its progression.

In 1969 it begins in F3, and it is only in 1975 that it disputes its first Grand Prix of Formule 1, in Spain, at the wheel of a Hesketh. After the Grand Prix of Sweden, it leaves this team to join Embassy-Hill. It finishes the championship with the seventeenth position, with two points. In 1976, it joined the Surtees stable and progresses slightly while finishing fourteenth of the Championship with seven points. In 1977 it is called at Shadow to replace Tom Pryce deceased, and is essential on the general surprise under the rain in Austria. Its career is launched.

In 1978, it joined the rows of the team Williams, unfortunately not yet completely on the level of the stables of point, its season finishes on a score of eleven points. But the following season its Williams FW07 is one of the best cars of the plate and it garners four victories at the end of the season, its fellow-member Clay Regazzoni by signing one. Jones is third of a championship dominated by Jody Scheckter and Gilles Villeneuve.

In 1980, its Williams still evolves/moves and allows him to take a perfect take-off with a victory of outset, before knowing a bad patch and having to contain the return of Nelson Piquet, more regular, which seizes the head of the Championship with two races of the end of the season. But Jones can react to offer to Williams its first championship of the World.

In 1981, Jones fails four points of Nelson Piquet for the title, signing despite everything two victories, and refusing to help its team-member Carlos Reutemann to take down the title after the Argentinian one had refused to let it pass to the Brésil… Reutemann fails a point of Stake!

After seven years in the queen category, Alan Jones decides in 1982 to take its retirement and to turn over in its native land. However one will re-examine it at the wheel of a Arrows with Beach Length in 1983, without success. End 1985, it returns at the wheel of a Lola of the Haas-Beatrice team and in 1986 it disputes all the season, finishing 12th with four points, before the dissolution of the stable and its final retirement.

He thought of taking part in the Grand Prix Masters but had to withdraw himself as of the tests of Kyalami in November 2005 for reason of inadequate physical condition.

Prize list

Many disputed Grands Prix: 116
Many Victories: 12
Number of Pole Positions: 6
Many Better Turns in race: 13
Many Podiums: 24
Nombre of abandonments: 48
Many marked points: 206

Stables

Hesketh : 4 GP (1975)
Hill: 4 GP (1975)
Surtees: 14 GP (1976)
Shadow: 14 GP (1977)
Williams: 60 GP (1978-1981)
Arrows: 1 GP (1982)
Lola: 19 GP (1985-1986)

See too

Pilot of Formula 1: classification per year
Pilot of Formula 1: classification by better Pilot turns
of Formula 1: classification by Pilot podiums
of Formula 1: classification by Pilot poles position
of Formula 1: classification by Pilot victories
of Formula 1: classification by hat tricks

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