| rdfs:comment | - Alan Jones conosciuto nel circolo come Se si arrabbia sono cazzi amari per tutti è stato l'unico pilota a saper guidare un canguro usando solo un cambio, quattro ruote e un volante che cambiava ad ogni gara. Plausibilmente prendendolo in prestito dalla prima macchina che trovava parcheggiata fuori dal circuito.Ha regalato le prime soddisfazioni alla piccola del signor Williams (Senna lo ringrazia molto per questo...) e ha fatto avere incubi orrendi al suo compagno di squadra e ai suoi meccanici quando perdeva la pazienza per qualsiasi motivo che ritenesse valido. Cioè qualunque motivo.
- Alan Stanley Jones MBE (born 2 November 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), is a former racing driver who won the World Championship in 1980. He drove for Hesketh, Hill, Surtees, Shadow, Williams, Arrows and Lola during his career. Outside of a racing car, Jones has co-presented F1 for Nine Network F1 and Network TEN F1, managed the Australian A1 Grand Prix team and, most recently, one of the ex-driver stewards who provides a racing driver's view on situations.
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| abstract | - Alan Jones conosciuto nel circolo come Se si arrabbia sono cazzi amari per tutti è stato l'unico pilota a saper guidare un canguro usando solo un cambio, quattro ruote e un volante che cambiava ad ogni gara. Plausibilmente prendendolo in prestito dalla prima macchina che trovava parcheggiata fuori dal circuito.Ha regalato le prime soddisfazioni alla piccola del signor Williams (Senna lo ringrazia molto per questo...) e ha fatto avere incubi orrendi al suo compagno di squadra e ai suoi meccanici quando perdeva la pazienza per qualsiasi motivo che ritenesse valido. Cioè qualunque motivo.
- Alan Stanley Jones MBE (born 2 November 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), is a former racing driver who won the World Championship in 1980. He drove for Hesketh, Hill, Surtees, Shadow, Williams, Arrows and Lola during his career. The son of racing driver Stan Jones, Alan got an early start in motorsport but due to a lack of finance, saw his progress up the ranks to be quite slow. He finally reached Formula Three aged 24 in 1971, and eventually made his F1 début, aged 28, at the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix for Hesketh. After a few races, Jones moved to Graham Hill's team to replace the injured Rolf Stommelen, scoring his first points with fifth place in Germany. In 1976, Jones moved to the team of another Champion of the 1960s, John Surtees. Jones managed three point-scoring finishes, including fourth at the Japanese Grand Prix. The next year, after originally declining an F1 seat, he joined Shadow replacing the late Tom Pryce. In a breakthrough season, Jones scored his first victory at the 1977 Austrian Grand Prix and a third place at Italy, both after starting from the middle of the grid. Changing teams once again, for 1978 Jones originally signed a deal with Ferrari, but with a clause allowing the Italian team to replace him with a North American driver, and when Gilles Villeneuve came into the picture, Jones was out. This lead Jones to become the sole driver for Frank Williams' latest venture. For a new team, the car performed well, with Jones scoring a podium for second place at Watkins Glen at the penultimate race. Continuous improvement was made heading into 1979. After a slow start to the season, Williams became one of the front runners in the second half of the year. Jones took four wins, maximising his points total for the second half of the season, and claiming third in the title race. Jones also took victory in the Gunnar Nilsson Memorial Trophy. 1980 turned out to be an excellent year for Jones. Starting with a victory in Argentina, Jones took five total wins (also including the final two races) and five other podiums to become F1 World Champion by a margin of thirteen points over Nelson Piquet, taking a commanding title lead in the penultimate race. Jones also took victory in the controversial non-championship race, the Spanish Grand Prix, which was originally meant to be a full championship event. In 1981, the original first race was declared non-championship, after which Jones claimed the first championship race of the season in Long Beach. A mid-season slump saw teammate Carlos Reutemann challenge Piquet more strongly for the title, and Jones was out of contention for the final race of the season, which the Australian won to classify third in the Championship. Jones suddenly retired from F1 ahead of the 1982, claiming wanting to enjoy his family life and not wanting ground effect cars; Williams replaced him with Finn Keke Rosberg. The motor racing bug hadn't left him, though, and he began competing in domestic Australian races. An opportunity then opened at Ferrari, following the death of Villeneuve, but Jones refused, and Mario Andretti drove instead. With ground effect cars being banned, Jones looked to make a comeback in 1983, signing a deal with Arrows for the United States Grand Prix West at Long Beach and non-championship Race of Champions at Brands Hatch. Despite breaking his leg in a horse riding accident, Jones took part in both events, retiring in Long Beach but finishing third at Brands Hatch. He would have competed in more races, but was unable to pick up sponsorship and he was replaced by pay driver Chico Serra. Remaining in Europe after this, Jones competed in the 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing sixth with Vern Schuppan and Jean-Pierre Jarier. Returning down under in 1985, Jones took part in the first seven rounds of the Australian Touring Car Championship before an opportunity to replace an injured Andretti in a CART race lead to Jones resuming his F1 career at Lola. Driving only a few races, including the first time that the Australian Grand Prix was held as an full F1 race, Jones failed to reach the chequered flag each time. In 1986, Jones only managed two points finishes, and he retired from F1 for good. Following his retirement, Jones entered Japanese endurance racing in 1987 and Asia-Pacific Touring Cars in 1988. After a break in 1989, Jones returned to Australia, racing in the Australian Touring Car Championship. He slowly built his speed up, eventually winning three races, two in 1993 and one in 1994; he was also classified second in the title race in 1993. He retired from competitive racing in 2002, aged 56. In 2005 he joined the short-lived Grand Prix Masters series, but withdrew from the first race citing neck pains. Outside of a racing car, Jones has co-presented F1 for Nine Network F1 and Network TEN F1, managed the Australian A1 Grand Prix team and, most recently, one of the ex-driver stewards who provides a racing driver's view on situations.
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