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Sports and Touring Car racing. Jones in 2007. Jones' post Formula One career was initially spasmodic in nature. Briefly in demand for his services as a Touring Car co-driver, he raced occasionally in his home country's biggest endurance race, the Bathurst 1000 but success was elusive.
A straight-talking, iron-willed, hard-driving tough guy, Alan Jones fought his way to the forefront, where he defended his territory with ruthless determination and large doses of intimidation. His belligerence was partly a by-product of a long and hard struggle to make it to Formula 1 racing in the first place.
Alan Jones was a straight-talking, iron-willed, and hard-driving tough guy who fought to the forefront of Formula One racing. Initially considered a journeyman driver, his career took off when he teamed up with the then equally undistinguished Williams team.
Apr 24, 2019 · Having arrived in Europe from his native Australia in the early 70s, Jones worked his way into F1 before becoming a Grand Prix winner with Shadow in 1977. But it’s with Williams that AJ is inextricably linked, winning 11 world championship races for the squad, as well as their first drivers’ crown.
- Struggling to Make Ends Meet in Europe
- Formula 1 at The Wrong End of The Grid
- Tragedy, Breakthrough and The Move to Williams
- World Champion For Williams
- Back in Formula 1 with Arrows and Haas
- Life After Formula 1
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Jones senior ran a Holden dealership in their native Melbourne and his son was driving as soon as he could. Fired by watching his father race, Alan Jones travelled to Europe in 1967 but did not have the money to race in Formula Ford as intended. Jones and compatriot Brian McGuire bought and sold cars in order to find the budget to progress in their...
Expected to switch to Formula 5000 in 1975, Stiller acquired an ex-works Hesketh 308-Ford with which Jones finished seventh on his F1 debut in Silverstone’s non-championship International Trophy. Four Grand Prix starts followed before Stiller abandoned the enterprise and moved overseas. Jones immediately switched to Graham Hill Racing as replacemen...
He decided to concentrate on building his career in North America during 1977 but returned to F1 once more when Tom Pryce was killed during the South African GP. Shadow turned to Jones as replacement for the talented Welshman and he delivered for the grieving team. Jones’s Shadow DN8A-Ford was sixth in Monaco and fifth at Zolder before he came from...
Third in the 1979 standings, Jones began 1980 as the clear favourite to win the World Championship. He won the opening race in Argentina despite spinning twice as the track broke up. He then recovered from a couple of retirements to win another four times and withstand Nelson Piquet’s spirited challenge. Jones clinched the title with a round to spa...
He returned to Australia but Jackie Oliver – who ran Shadow when Jones won the 1977 Austrian GP – enticed him out of retirement at the start of 1983. Recovering from breaking his leg while riding on his farm and not yet fully race fit, Jones retired his Arrows A6-Ford from the Long Beach GP a fortnight before finishing third in the Race of Champion...
As well as working as a television commentator for Australia’s Channel Nine, Jones starred in the country’s competitive V8 Supercars touring car series from 1990. He finished as runner-up in 1993 after winning three times with a Glenn Seton Racing Ford Falcon EB – only beaten in the standings by Seton himself. Jones formed his own team in 1996 but ...
Learn about Alan Jones, the 1980 Formula 1 World Champion and a hard-as-nails racer who started from humble beginnings in Australia. Find out his biography, races, wins, teams and more on Motorsport Database.
Sep 29, 2020 · Alan Jones, a chip off the old block – 40 years on. Victory for Alan Jones in the 1980 Canadian Grand Prix clinched his F1 title - and a first for Williams. He was also continuing in the family tradition: a second-generation racing champion.
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Learn about Alan Jones, the 1980 Formula 1 World Drivers' Champion from Australia. Find out his biography, career history, race results, car details and more.
