He made a full-time comeback to F1 late in 1985 when Team Haas was created and Jones became the first driver for the team. No repaints yet (saw it Feb 10, 2005) and still the same factory color. The intriguing history of this Canary Yellow car, chassis 9140431571, began when it was ordered by Portuguese Porsche importer and distributor Messrs AS Motors Sociedade. Some interesting and ignorant comments from many with opinions, but very few informed can be found here. He was the first driver to win a Formula One World Championship with the Williams team, becoming the 1980 World Drivers' Champion and the second Australian to do so following triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham. Jones helped put the team on the Formula One map in 1979 using the Williams FW07, after winning four races in the span of five events near the end of the season. 1967 D. Hulme
Yet after the car’s completion in April 1970, and for reasons that aren’t fully known, it was never delivered. [9] However, Stiller's initial plans fell through but after some delay, during which Jones was effectively unemployed, Stiller arranged to purchase a Formula One Hesketh 308 and signed Jones to drive the car.
Willow Springs, 1986. October 1986 at Fabcar rebuilding for the runoffs. The company's filing status is listed as Good Standing and its File Number is 19991208761. How about a Porsche 944 GTR Turbo? 362 talking about this. This lot has been removed from the website, please contact customer services for more information, This auction is now finished. At the end of the 1986 season after the Haas team lost its sponsorship and ran out of money, Jones retired from Formula One for good having won 12 races, 6 pole positions and one World Championship. Great story, John. In August of 1971 it was sold to Bozzani Porsche-Audi Inc. of Monrovia, California. If my memory serves correctly, 9 cars were built in that run? [10], His first race was the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix at the fast Montjuïc circuit in the purchased Hesketh although the weekend turned out to be one of the most tragic in Formula One history Seasons spanning over two years (for example 2013-14 championships) have their race results accounted for in the year the championship ends. 1962 G. Hill His best finish with Hill, in four races for the team, was fifth at the Nürburgring. 1951 J. M. Fangio Some video of the car from the 1986 Runoffs. We finished the car in time for the event. The 42 and 11 cars were Bruce Jenner's 944 GTRs. You can judge it for yourself at Rétromobile, where it will appear on the stand of FA Automobile…. Pat Scanlan and myself at Dave Klym's shop prepping for the big week at the Runoffs.
In his only IndyCar start and showing he had lost none of the speed, skill and determination that took him to the World Championship, Jones drove Andretti's Lola T900-Cosworth to third place behind Jacques Villeneuve Sr. (winner) and Mario's son Michael Andretti (2nd). Morris went on to win the race). Jones' reputation as a hard charger was shown in the 1993 ATCC when he was involved in a number of incidents, most notably pushing the Holden Commodore of Mark Skaife off the track at Symmons Plains Raceway before also doing the same to the Holden Racing Team's Commodore driven by Australia's 1987 500cc Grand Prix motorcycle World Champion Wayne Gardner less than half a lap later. Jones attended Xavier College and is the son of Stan Jones, an Australian racing driver and winner of the 1959 Australian Grand Prix, and wanted to follow in his footsteps. 1953 A. Ascari Notice the 944 style front end. podiums: 0 pole position? AJPE Weekend Winners. Thanks for asking. And there’s every reason to think that its recorded 11,395km is accurate, too. After returning home again in 1987 his career did not pick up again until a competitive 3rd placing at the 1988 Bathurst 1000 with Colin Bond's team in a Ford Sierra RS500, saw him signed up as full-time number two driver to Tony Longhurst in Longhurst's Frank Gardner run team to drive a Sierra in 1990. It would be great to see more pictures of the cars and pit crew, great to see all those 80's hair do's too. Cullen and Jones, who drove the final stint in the race and required pain killing injections after having the steering wheel wrench out of his hands during practice which damaged ligaments in his elbow, were unlucky not to finish 2nd, but a brake problem with the car saw him forced to use more fuel than normal and a late race stop for fuel allowed the Holden Dealer Team VK Commodore of David Parsons and John Harvey to sneak into 2nd and the Mazda RX-7 of Allan Moffat and Gregg Hansford to claim 3rd.
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