Interview with Jacky Ickx, six-time le Mans winner and 2017 London Classic Car Show Icon. The London Classic Car Show.
Jacques Bernard "Jacky" Ickx, born 1 January 1945, in Brussels, is a Belgian former racing driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans six times, achieved eight wins and 25 podium finishes in Formula One, won the Can-Am Championship in 1979 and is a former winner of the Dakar Rally. Ickx entered his first Grand Prix at the Nürburgring in 1966, driving a Matra MS5-Cosworth one-litre Formula Two (F2) car, entered by Ken Tyrrell.[1] However, a first lap collision with John Taylor caused both cars to retire[2] and Taylor later died as a result of burns received in the accident. In 1967, Ickx again drove at the Nurburgring, with an F2 Matra MS7-Cosworth , also entered by Tyrrell.[1] Despite the greater power of the Formula One (F1) cars, only two F1 drivers qualified with a faster time than Ickx: Denny Hulme and Jim Clark. As Ickx was racing in the separate F2 class, he started the race behind all of the F1 cars, but within four laps of the 28 km circuit he was up to fifth place, having overtaken 12 F1 cars. He was forced to retire after 12 laps with broken front suspension, but set fastest lap of the F2 runners.[1] At Monza in 1967, he made his F1 debut in a Cooper T81B-Maserati, finishing sixth, despite suffering a puncture on the last lap. he also drove for Cooper in the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen but retired on lap 45 with overheating. In 1968 Ickx drove in Formula 1 for Ferrari. He retired from his first two races, but at his home race at Spa-Francorchamps he started from the front row and finished 3rd. At the French Grand Prix at Rouen he took his first win, in heavy rain. Ickx also finished third at Brands Hatch and fourth at the Nürburgring after driving almost the entire race in heavy rain without his helmet visor. At Monza he finished the race in third position. In Canada he crashed and broke his left leg during practice, thus did not start and also missed the subsequent United States Grand Prix.
Size: 2644px × 2540px
Location: ExCel, London, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -, -time, 2, 24, brabham, car, champion, champions, championship, classic, conference, cooper, dakar, driver, drivers, endurance, ensign, european, excel, famous, ferrari, formula, grand, historic, hmi, hours, ickx, icon, international, interview, jacky, le, legend, ligier, london, lotus, mans, mclaren, morotracing, motorsport, motosport, prix, race, racing, rally, rounder, show, single-searter, single-seater, smling, speaker, supagard, t81b-maserati, team, theatre, touring, winner, wins, ürburgring.
