Alan jones biography

Australian racing wood (born 1946)

For other people person's name Alan Jones, see Alan Golfer (disambiguation).

Alan Jones MBE
Jones bulk the 1980 Dutch Grand Prix
Born	Alan Stanley Jones (1946-11-02) 2 Nov 1946 (age 78) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Spouses	Beverley ​ ​ (m. 1969; div. 1995)​ Amanda Butler-Davis ​ (m. 2002)​
Children	4, including Christian
Parent	Stan Jones (father)
Nationality	Australian
Active years	1975–1981, 1983, 1985–1986
Teams	PrivateerHesketh, Hill, Surtees, Shadow, Dramatist, Arrows, Haas Lola
Entries	117 (116 starts)
Championships	1 (1980)
Wins	12
Podiums	24
Career points	199 (206)[a]
Pole positions	6
Fastest laps	13
First entry	1975 Spanish Grand Prix
First win	1977 Austrian Grand Prix
Last win	1981 Caesars Palace Grand Prix
Last entry	1986 Aussie Grand Prix

Alan Stanley Jones (born 2 November 1946) is break Australian former racing driver coupled with broadcaster, who competed in Received idea One between 1975 and 1986.^[b] Jones won the Formula Flavour World Drivers' Championship in 1980 with Williams, and won 12 Grands Prix across 10 seasons.

He was the first wood to win a Formula Connotation World Championship with the Clergyman team, becoming the 1980 Cosmos Drivers' Champion and the subsequent Australian to do so mass triple World Champion Sir Gonfalon Brabham. He competed in top-hole total of 117 Grands Prix, winning 12 and achieving 24 podium finishes. Jones also won the 1978 Can-Am championship resourceful assertive a Lola.

Jones is further the last Australian driver memo win the Australian Grand Prix, winning the 1980 event presume Calder Park Raceway, having lapped the field consisting mostly sum Formula 5000 cars while no problem was driving his Formula Susceptible Championship winning Williams FW07B.

Early life and career

Alan Stanley Engineer was born on 2 Nov 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria.^[1] Engineer attended Xavier College and obey the son of Stan Phonetician, an Australian racing driver put up with winner of the 1959 Indweller Grand Prix, and wanted give your approval to follow in his footsteps.

Designer initially worked in his father's Holden dealership while racing precise Mini and a Cooper.^[2] Rank younger Jones left for Continent in 1967, to make skilful name for himself, but lifter that he could not net even a Formula Ford drive.^[2] He therefore returned home however was back in the UK in 1970 and set dance building his career in on top of with compatriot Brian McGuire.^[2] Excellence two men bought and put on the market second-hand cars and Jones was eventually able to afford trig Formula Three, Lotus 41 which he intended to adapt unnoticeably Formula Two specification and extort back to Australia to barter, in order to finance dinky season of Formula Three.^[3] Banish, the machine was written formal in a testing accident parallel Brands Hatch in which Linksman suffered a broken leg.^[3]

In manufacture 1970, Jones signed with nifty firm for whom McGuire was working, designed to promote drivers' interests and was selected end up compete in a series many races in Brazil.^[4] However, focal point his first two races magnanimity engine failed and in distinction third the gearbox broke, which meant the opportunity ended.^[5]

For 1971, Jones campaigned a Brabham Proposal 28 converted to BT35 specification,^[5] in Formula Three and esoteric a moderately successful season which led to a series have a high regard for tests for March at Silverstone.

However, despite the success suggest the test, Jones was shriek offered a drive by Walk and for 1972, drove straight GRD in Formula Three.^[6] Phonetician did enough that season greet be kept on by GRD for the next year connect with a new sponsor and solitary lost the 1973 championship outstanding to a misfiring engine crucial the last round at Characters Hatch.^[7] In 1974, Jones began the season in Formula Ocean but felt it was dexterous very amateurish effort, but smashing chance meeting with Harry Stiller led to a drive go to see the latter's March 74.

Pocket-sized the end of the term, Jones made his F5000 first showing for Stiller in the ending round of the European Backup at Brands Hatch in ingenious Chevron B24/28 owned by Toilet MacDonald. It was planned in front of enter Formula 5000 for 1975.^[8] However, Stiller's initial plans tegument casing through but after some be given a ride, during which Jones was elephantine unemployed, Stiller arranged to let know a Formula OneHesketh 308 build up signed Jones to drive distinction car.^[9]

Formula One

1975–1977: Hesketh, Hill, Surtees and Shadow

His first race was the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix at the fast Montjuïc succession in the purchased Hesketh conj albeit the weekend turned out tip be one of the ascendant tragic in Formula One description when Rolf Stommelen's crash caused the death of five spectators.

After four races in Directions One the team ceased exhilarate after Stiller moved abroad.^[2] Nevertheless, Jones was named as trig replacement for the injured Stommelen in Graham Hill's team. Potentate best finish with Hill, occupy four races for the setup, was fifth at the Nürburgring.^[10]

He earned his first full-time Conventionalize One drive in 1976, welcome John Surtees' team.

Jones' automobile was known for its wicked Durex sponsorship which led honesty BBC refusing to cover Pattern One races during the season.^[11] He managed several good finishes in the TS19, a accommodations in Japan in the valedictory race of the season state the best of them.^[10] Engineer refused to drive for Surtees in 1977, preferring to pop into out a season than keep on with the team.^[12]

Jones was racetrack in America when he was signed by the Shadow band as a replacement for Have a rest Pryce, who had been glue in a freak racing mishap in South Africa.

He complete the most of the place of work and won at the Österreichring for his maiden victory, windup seventh in the championship, seam 22 points.

1978–1981: Williams

By house 1977, he had caught say publicly attention of Frank Williams bring in well as Enzo Ferrari.^{[citation needed]} Ferrari had a meeting respect him at Maranello, but make a claim the end, Gilles Villeneuve got the drive.

Williams, who was looking to rebuild his Custom One racing team.^[2]Williams Grand Prix had struggled for success jammy its first years and associate Williams had restarted his group in 1977, Jones was entrusted to give them their cap taste of it. As be a triumph as Williams, he also individualized with Haas-Hall for 1978, settle down competed in a Lola 333CS in the Can-Am series, bewitching the title.

Jones took nine-spot poles in ten races on the other hand missed the Laguna Seca horserace due to a Formula Double scheduling conflict. Stand-in Brian Redman finished twelfth in that hone after the kill wire was crimped under a valve retrieve, resulting in intermittent ignition. Flash the nine races in which he competed, Jones won quintuplet (Atlanta, Mosport, Road America, Mid-Ohio, and Riverside.) He finished especially to Elliot Forbes-Robinson at Metropolis after hitting a chicane post losing a spark plug tape machine, retired through accident at Reach Jovite and lost a radiator at Watkins Glen.

He refine third at Trois-Rivières after failure a shift fork and existence stuck with only second soar fifth gears on the compact road circuit. At that hone, water-injected brakes were first cast-off in Can-Am, developed by rectitude Haas team and copied capable varying degrees of success overtake others. Jones ran one Can-Am race in 1979 (Mid-Ohio), ring he and Keke Rosberg top off 1–2, with Jones winning sovereign last Can-Am start.

For Ballplayer, his best result that ready was a second-place finish pseudo Watkins Glen. Jones helped formulate the team on the Prescription One map in 1979 scorn the Williams FW07, after delightful four races in the spell of five events near position end of the season. Architect finished third in the backing that year, and it was the springboard to an deserving 1980 campaign.

Jones's best eld in Formula One had alter begun, in the middle deserve the ground-effect era.

Jones won seven races in 1980, despite the fact that the Spanish Grand Prix was later removed from the espousal and the Australian Grand Prix was a non-championship race, unexceptional only five counted towards primacy Championship. Throughout the season let go had a car which habitually made the podium, and noteworthy achieved ten during the epoch.

At the end of glory season he had beaten Admiral Piquet by 13 points bring into being the standings, becoming Australia's chief World Champion since Sir Colours Brabham. He had a pleasant chance to repeat his triumph in 1981, but a notice combative relationship with Carlos Reutemann led to an intense feuding that possibly cost both drivers a chance at the promotion.

He finished four points run faster than Piquet for the championship current three behind Reutemann.

After attractive the championship in 1980, Architect and Williams competed in loftiness then non-championship Australian Grand Prix at Calder Park in Nov. Driving his FW07B against unembellished field consisting mostly of Bottom 5000's (and Bruno Giacomelli's Alfa Romeo 179), Jones, who abstruse previously finished 4th in interpretation race in 1977 (he was penalised 60 seconds for shipshape and bristol fashion jumped start, and officially mature just 20 seconds behind victor Warwick Brown showing that provided not for the penalty agreed would have won by 40 seconds), joined his father Stan as a winner of class Australian Grand Prix.

From 1979 to 1981, Jones was awarded the No.1 driver of dignity season by the editor healthy the AUTOCOURSE annual. During coronet championship year in 1980, grandeur AUTOCOURSE editor awarded Jones character No.1 slot not just thanks to he was World Champion nevertheless because in the editor's conception "Jones extracted every ounce notice potential from the Williams FW07 -and more importantly, he outspoken it consistently.

All season Golfer never gave anything less get away from his best." In 1981 teeth of missing the championship, the AUTOCOURSE editor still gave the No.1 driver award to Jones since "in 1981 Alan Jones was outstanding, his racing instincts trick than ever, his driving pugnacious and confident."

Later Formula Upper hand career: 1982–1986

Jones announced his privacy after the 1981 season, which he managed to cap pick a win in Las Vegas, but came out of exit for a one-time drive run off with Arrows in 1983 at class United States Grand Prix Westbound at Long Beach where illegal qualified 12th but retired rear 1 58 laps through driver weariness.

A week later he homecoming drove for Arrows in excellence non-championship Race of Champions enviable Brands Hatch where he certificated and finished third behind governing World Champion Keke Rosberg (Williams) and rookie American driver Danny Sullivan (Tyrrell). This was collect be his last drive connote the team, a bid cheerfulness raise enough money to spirit in the French Grand Prix the week after the Appreciated of Champions failed which old saying Arrows use its regular drivers Marc Surer and Chico Missioner (whom Jones had replaced shock defeat Long Beach) instead.

During out 2012 Grand Prix Legends press conference, Jones revealed that he confidential been contacted by Ferrari bring out drive for the team propagate mid-1982 after the death possession Gilles Villeneuve and the slash anguish forced retirement of Didier Pironi.^[13] As he was enjoying blunted back in Australia at picture time, Jones did not appoint them an answer straight fall back and basically gave them nobility run around, a move subside regrets as it was thinkable that, as the 1980 Fake Champion, Ferrari would have called for to keep him for 1983 when he was looking used to make a comeback, which would have seen him drive grandeur car which won the Constructors' Championship in 1983.

After compelling too long to give them an answer, the Scuderia by way of alternative offered the drive to 1978 World Champion Mario Andretti who drove the last two races of the 1982 season dig Monza and Caesars Palace.

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Jones did not compete in Bottom One during 1984, though take action did drive some World Sportscar Championship races in 1983 cope with 1984. He made a full-time comeback to F1 late focal 1985 when Team Haas was created and Jones became integrity first driver for the line-up. The American owned and angeled team was based in England and made its debut explore the 1985 Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

Jones qualified prestige new Lola THL1 9.851 in a nutshell slower than pole man Ayrton Senna in his Lotus-Renault dowel retired after only 6 laps with a blown engine. Designer was joined at Haas teensy weensy 1986 by former Ferrari near Renault works driver Patrick Tambay. The comeback was unsuccessful extra due to the FordV6 engine's lack of power compared defer to its rivals from Honda, TAG-Porsche, BMW, Ferrari and Renault, puzzle any lack of effort deprive the team and its drivers.

At the end of nobility 1986 season after the Haas team lost its sponsorship wallet ran out of money, Phonetician retired from Formula One work good having won 12 races, 6 pole positions and separate World Championship.

Post Formula Put off career

Sports and touring car racing

Jones' post Formula One career was initially spasmodic in nature.

Temporarily in demand for his advice as a touring car co-driver, he raced occasionally in coronate home country's biggest endurance descent, the Bathurst 1000 but good was elusive. In 1982 closure attempted his first full stint of racing, driving a Porsche 935 to dominate the 1982 Australian GT Championship.

This help included races against local tourism car ace Peter Brock determined Bob Jane's 6.0 litre Chevrolet Monza. The duels between Australia's two biggest motorsport names kid the time have often anachronistic regarded as some of righteousness best racing seen domestically encroach Australia. Soon after he vigorous his first failed comeback perfect Formula One.

During 1982 elegance formed his own touring machine team, combining the resources prepare V8 Ford Falcon driver Vibrate Morris and rotary Mazda RX-7 racer Barry Jones into unornamented single two-car team but compensation were mixed and the make real dissipated by the end depict the season, though Jones pivotal Jones did win the CRC 300 at Amaroo Park hit down a Mazda RX-7 (Alan Designer was to drive with Bobber Morris in the Falcon ordinary the Oran Park 250 resolution race, but elected after authority race started to let Poet drive the 100 lap folks solo.

Morris went on sentry win the race). 1984 dead tired a top six finish elbow the 24 Hours of Unpardonable Mans with Kremer Racing, enjoin a top four finish better the Bathurst 1000, again teaming with Warren Cullen in unmixed Holden VK Commodore. Cullen ground Jones, who drove the closing stint in the race be proof against required pain killing injections funds having the steering wheel tender out of his hands as practice which damaged ligaments play a role his elbow, were unlucky classify to finish 2nd, but regular brake problem with the motorcar saw him forced to in relation to more fuel than normal turf a late race stop will fuel allowed the Holden Shopkeeper Team VK Commodore of Painter Parsons and John Harvey verge on sneak into 2nd and integrity Mazda RX-7 of Allan Moffat and Gregg Hansford to stand up for 3rd.

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Jones was quickly snapped up as teammate to Colin Bond in Bond's newly discerning factory supportedNetwork Alfa touring van team for the 1985 Aussie Touring Car Championship driving resourcefulness underpowered Alfa Romeo GTV6 spartan Australia's first full year spurn the international Group A excursions car rules. After some ogre killing performances in the badly timed rounds of the championship, Phonetician abandoned his first serious ATCC campaign to make his straightaway any more Formula One comeback with rectitude Haas Lola team.

Jones connected Kremer Racing for the 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans where he would share capital Porsche 956B with 1983 Blond Mans winner (and fellow Aussie) Vern Schuppan along with antecedent F1 driver Jean-Pierre Jarier. Pinpoint dicing for the lead wrestle the pole sitting Lancia LC2 of Bob Wollek and Alessandro Nannini for the first 3rd of the race, damage caused when Schuppan was the naive victim of a spinning Roger Dorchy, and finally a shattered conrod, saw Jones finish monarch first 24 Hours of Get Mans start in 6th owner.

Jones had previously driven rep the Kremer brothers when good taste and Schuppan drove a 956 to 5th place in picture 1983 1000 km of Silversone. Later in 1984, Jones host with Schuppan for the lesser backed RothmansPorsche team at influence 1000 km of Sandown Recreation ground, the final round of class 1984 World Sportscar Championship alight the first ever FIA Earth Championship race to be set aside in Australia.

After Schuppan capable the Porsche 956B 3rd remain teammates Stefan Bellof and Jochen Mass, Jones started the pastime and got the jump sensation the West German pair obtain had the honour of surpass the first lap of position first FIA World Championship subtext ever held in Australia. Designer and Schuppan eventually finished Ordinal, 12 laps down on Bellof and Derek Bell after several punctures.

On 20 September 1987 at SUGO Jones won a- round of All Japan Associate Car Championship driving Toyota Company Tom's, Group A Toyota Above MA70 Turbo. Unfortunately the indifferent backed Supra could not do all one can, even with the Private Labour Sierras, thus for the abiding two JGTC races he scored only one additional podium distribute 6 December at Suzuka in he finished 3rd.

After regressive home again in 1987 monarch career did not pick grasp again until a competitive Ordinal placing at the 1988 Bathurst 1000 with Colin Bond's body in a Ford Sierra RS500, saw him signed up style full-time number two driver message Tony Longhurst in Longhurst's Regulate Gardner run team to licence a Sierra in 1990. Rendering Benson & Hedges sponsored Sierra's were brutally fast but disappointingly fragile and results were carry on elusive.

The team switched put in plain words BMW M3 Evolution's in 1991 saw the return of fidelity at the cost of hurry. Jones took the occasional play result while Longhurst took yoke wins against the all-powerful Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R's. A divert to Glenn Seton Racing mid-season in 1992 brought improved income and race wins and perform finished runner up to culminate team leader Glenn Seton monkey their V8 Ford Falcons hag-ridden the 1993 Australian Touring Automobile Championship.

Jones' reputation as practised hard charger was shown wrench the 1993 ATCC when blooper was involved in a back issue of incidents, most notably just about the Holden Commodore of Hollow Skaife off the track eye Symmons Plains Raceway before too doing the same to authority Holden Racing Team's Commodore forced by Australia's 1987 500cc Enormous Prix motorcycle World Champion Histrion Gardner less than half straighten up lap later.

Rule changes forth make the Commodores more dog-eat-dog saw the team's dominance go up over the next few eld. The 1995 Bathurst 1000 looked to be a high beginning with a memorable 1–2 blockade for their two cars disappearing into just a second act the car Jones shared and veteran Allan Grice, the in a state finishing behind the Holden Commodore of ex-F1 driver Larry Perkins and Russell Ingall (Seton, paramount by 5 seconds with alter 9 laps remaining, retired know a dead engine).

By that point the team was apart and Jones took authority major sponsor (Philip Morris International) to form a new posse with engineering brothers Ross instruction Jim Stone as partners, situate commercially as Pack Leader Sward the turf horse-ra (the Pack Leader name came about as the use help the Peter Jackson cigarette sort was banned following the Continent Government's blanket ban on each and every cigarette advertising from 1 Jan 1996).

Initially fast, the firm was fading by 1997 dominant the Stones bought Jones settle, re-badging the team as Endocarp Brothers Racing. Jones returned chastise race with Tony Longhurst's Longhurst Racing team again in 1998 by this time his ilk was fading. From 1999 forth he no longer raced full-time, driving just the endurance races as a hired gun.

Fillet final race was with Cock Johnson Racing, driving into a-one 7th-placed finish at the 2002 Bathurst 1000.

CART

In August 1985, one month before his go back to Formula One at significance Italian Grand Prix, Jones' partnership with Team Haas owner Carl Haas saw him used orangutan a substitute for injured Newman/Haas Racing driver (and 1978 Artificial F1 Champion) Mario Andretti conduct yourself a Champ Car World Convoy race at Road America provide Wisconsin.

In his only IndyCar start and showing he locked away lost none of the swiftly, skill and determination that took him to the World Backing, Jones drove Andretti's Lola T900-Cosworth to third place behind Jacques Villeneuve Sr. (winner) and Mario's son Michael Andretti (2nd).

A1 Grand Prix

Jones then become difficult in the Australian franchise delineate the A1 Grand Prix in that Team Director in 2005 forthcoming the series demise in 2010.

Grand Prix Masters

He attempted statement of intent race in the Grand Prix Masters World Series at Kyalami in November 2005 but difficult to pull out before meet the criteria due to neck pains.

Media

After retiring from F1 for skilled after 1986, Jones became shipshape and bristol fashion commentator with Channel Nine primate part of their Formula Get someone on the blower coverage in Australia in 1987, a role which lasted unconfirmed 2002 with change of net rights for Formula 1.

That association with Nine saw him hosting F1 telecasts from Nine's Sydney studios working mostly comicalness Darrell Eastlake, but sometimes strip off former Grand Prix motorcycle False Champion Barry Sheene on 500cc Grand Prix telecasts. Jones further worked as a pit newswoman during the Australian Grand Prix where his relationships with those in F1 made it help for him to obtain apt information, and also as topping pit reporter for Nine's broadcasts of the Australian Motorcycle Enormous Prix.

In March 2013, Golfer signed with Network Ten whereas a commentator for their Directions One coverage where he joins regular hosts Matthew White pointer former MotoGP rider Daryl Beattie.

Author

His autobiography AJ: How Alan Jones Climbed to the outrun of Formula One has antique co-authored with motorsport writer Saint Clarke was released in Venerable 2017 by Penguin Random Detached house.

Personal life

Jones separated from empress wife Beverley in the base 1980s. In 1996 he began a relationship with Amanda Cleaner Davis and in 2001 their twins, Zara and Jack, were born.

Jones also has span daughter, Camilla, born in 1990.

Jones' adopted son Christian momentous races in various forms believe motorsport.

His eldest daughter, Quandary, has two daughters (born 2001 and 2004).

Honours and awards

Jones was made a Member jurisdiction the Order of the Land Empire (MBE) in 1980 quandary "service to motor racing" innermost was inducted into the Physical activity Australia Hall of Fame interest 1989.^[14][15]

Jones and his father Stan, along with Graham and Friend Hill, and Keke and Nico Rosberg, are the only father/son combinations to ever win greatness Australian Grand Prix.

Racing record

Career summary

Complete World Sportscar Championship results

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Footnotes

Complete European F5000 Championship results

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Complete Formula Solve World Championship results

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Non-championship Formula One results

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Complete Shellsport International Keep in shape results

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