Chris Amon
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| Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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| First start: | 1963 Belgian Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1976 German Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1963–1965 Parnell • 1966 Cooper • 1967–1969 Ferrari • 1970 March • 1971–1972 Matra • 1973 Tecno • 1973 Tyrrell • 1974 Amon • 1974 BRM • 1975–1976 Ensign • 1976 Wolf | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | World Cup fifth ( 1967 ) | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | 83 | ||||||||
| Podiums : | 11 | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | 183 over 851.5 km | ||||||||
Christopher Arthur "Chris" Amon (born July 20, 1943 in Bulls , † August 3, 2016 in Rotorua ) was a New Zealand racing driver . Between 1963 and 1976 he started at 96 Grands Prix in the automobile world championship . In addition, he also participated in sports and touring car races and won in 1966 together with his countryman Bruce McLaren , the 24-hour race at Le Mans . Amon is considered the best racing driver who never won a Formula 1 race.
Career
Amon, who during his career a. a. was under contract with well-known racing teams such as Ferrari , March and Matra , was one of the fastest racing drivers and the biggest unlucky person at the same time. Success was always denied to him. To this day he is the Formula 1 driver with the most first places on the grid (five) without ever winning a race. In addition, Amon is among the winless drivers with over 850 km, the driver with the most leadership kilometers in Formula 1 history. Often, in a promising position, technical defects overtook him that set him back or ended his race. Some journalists called him “unlucky ”, world champion Mario Andretti put it in the late 1970s: “Bad luck? If Chris Amon had become an undertaker, people would have stopped dying ”.
Automobile world championship
Amon started for the first time at the Belgian Grand Prix in 1963 in a Lola-Climax MK4 for the Reg Parnell Racing Team in a race of the Automobile World Championship. By the end of the 1965 season , he took part in another 15 Grand Prix for Parnell, and he started eleven times with a Lotus chassis.
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In 1966 , Amon only drove one race for Cooper before he was under contract with Ferrari from 1967 to 1969 . After the fatal accidents of Lorenzo Bandini and Ludovico Scarfiotti and the serious injury of Mike Parkes , the expectations and pressure of the entire team to succeed rested on his shoulders. Amon justified his contract with some good results. He was narrowly beaten by Joseph Siffert at the Great Britain Grand Prix in 1968 and stood on the podium five more times in the three years.
In the sports car world championship, Amon was partially harmed and was thus able to return the favor for lost successes in the automobile world championship. In 1966 he won the Le Mans 24-hour race . With his partner Bruce McLaren , Amon won the Ford GT 40 and gave the US company from Dearborn its first victory on the Sarthe . In 1967, this time for Ferrari, he won both the Daytona 24-hour race and the Monza 1000 km race .
In 1970 Amon started for March and achieved his season with the highest points in the automobile world championship. Twice he was waved off in second place and collected a total of 23 championship points. In 1971 he moved to the French national team Matra , with whose chassis Jackie Stewart had become world champion in 1969. In two seasons he achieved two pole positions and two third places there.
In the years that followed, up to the end of his career in the 1976 automobile world championship , he completed races for the Tecno team, for Tyrrell , BRM , for his own project called Chris Amon Racing and for Ensign . For the North American races of the 1976 Automobile World Championship , Amon was finally signed up by Walter Wolf and registered for his team, Walter Wolf Racing . Amon took part in qualifying training for the Canadian Grand Prix in a Williams FW05 , but was seriously injured in an accident during training and had to skip the race the following day as well as the following Grand Prix of the USA East . He was replaced by Warwick Brown .
Amon took part in a total of 96 Grand Prix races. He started from pole position five times, but never won a race. He finished second three times and third eight times and collected a total of 83 world championship points. At 12 other grands prix he could not qualify or he canceled the start.
Touring car
On July 8, 1973, Chris Amon won the Touring Car Grand Prix (6-hour race) at the Nürburgring with Hans-Joachim Stuck as a partner in a BMW CSL . Amon / Stuck won in 6: 03: 06.5 hours (42 laps = 959.7 km).
Endurance racing
Amon was far more successful in long-distance races than in monopostos. Along with Bruce McLaren, he won the Ford GT40 , the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans . The following year he won the Daytona 24-hour race with Scuderia Ferrari .
statistics
Statistics in the automobile world championship
These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .
general overview
Single results
| season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 |
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| colour | abbreviation | meaning |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
Le Mans results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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| 1964 |
Briggs Cunningham
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Shelby Daytona Cobra |
Jochen Neerpasch
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failure | Disqualified |
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Shelby American Incorporation
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Ford GT40 |
Phil Hill
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failure | Gearbox damage |
| 1966 |
Shelby American Incorporation
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Ford GT40 |
Bruce McLaren
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| 1967 |
Ferrari SEFAC Spa
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Ferrari 330P3 |
Nino Vaccarella
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failure | Fire |
| 1969 |
Ferrari SEFAC Spa
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Ferrari 312P |
 Peter Schetty
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failure | accident |
| 1971 |
Equipe Matra Simca
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Matra MS660 |
Jean-Pierre Beltoise
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failure | Petrol injection |
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Equipe Matra Simca Shell
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Matra MS670 |
Jean-Pierre Beltoise
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failure | accident |
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BMW Motorsport
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BMW 3.0 CSL |
Hans-Joachim Stuck
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failure | accident |
Sebring results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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| 1969 |
Ferrari SPA SEFAC
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Ferrari 312P |
Mario Andretti
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Rank 2 and class win |
Individual results in the sports car world championship
literature
- Eoin Young: Forza Amon! A Biography of Chris Amon. Haynes Group, Sparkford 2003, ISBN 1-84425-016-4 .
Web links
- Chris Amon. In: BMW history. BMW AG, accessed on August 3, 2016 (dossier on Chris Amon in the BMW Group Archive).
- Chris Amon at Racing Sports Cars
Individual evidence
- ^ Motor racing great Chris Amon dies in hospital . Stuff.co.nz , August 3, 2016, accessed August 4, 2016.
- ↑ Jonathan Noble: F1 legend Chris Amon dies, aged 73. www.motorsport.com, August 3, 2016, accessed on August 3, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Andreas Reiners: Formula 1 mourns Chris Amon. Speedweek , August 3, 2016, accessed August 3, 2016 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Amon, Chris |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Amon, Christopher Arthur (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand racing car driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bulls |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd August 2016 |
| Place of death | Rotorua |