Jackie Oliver

Jackie Oliver

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1967 German Grand Prix
Last start:	1977 Swedish Grand Prix
Constructors
1967–1968 Lotus • 1969–1970 BRM • 1971 McLaren • 1972 BRM • 1973 & 1977 Shadow
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-14. ( 1973 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 50 - - 1
World Cup points :	13
Podiums :	2
Leadership laps :	37 over 169.014 km

Jack Keith "Jackie" Oliver (born August 14, 1942 in Chadwell Heath , Essex) is a former English racing driver and team boss in Formula 1.

Career as a driver

Jackie Oliver began his long involvement in international motorsport in 1961. He first drove a Mini Cooper in the early 1960s , then successfully drove a Lotus Elan in the English touring car and GT scene. The following time in Formula 3 was difficult due to the lack of usable vehicle material. But Oliver had what is now called “natural speed” and despite a few failures, he got a contract for Formula 2 in 1967 .

Jackie Oliver next to the factory Lotus 49 after it retired at the 1968 British Grand Prix

Colin Chapman offered him one of his works Lotus Formula 2 and Oliver gratefully accepted. He drove the European Formula 2 Championship for the team and made his Formula 1 debut in the same year . At the Grand Prix of Germany at the Nürburgring , he competed in the Formula 2 class (to fill up the starting fields on the long Nürburgring, Formula 2 cars also drove at the Grand Prix at the end of the 1960s). Oliver won his class and thus achieved an excellent fifth place in the overall ranking.

After the tragic death of Jim Clark in the spring of 1968, Oliver moved up to the Lotus Formula 1 team and became a team-mate of Graham Hill . Oliver was consistently fast, but could never fully replace Jim Clark. He led the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch (later retirement due to engine failure) and only achieved his best position of the season and his first podium with third place at the last race of the season in Mexico City .

In 1969 there was no more room for Oliver at Lotus after Jochen Rindt was signed. He moved to BRM and managed only four finishings for the British team in two years, two of them in the points. At the Grand Prix of Mexico in 1969 , he finished sixth and the Grand Prix of Austria 1970 fifth.

In contrast to Formula 1, Oliver was able to celebrate great successes in the sports car. From 1969 he drove for John Wyer . Together with Jacky Ickx , he won the Sebring 12 Hours in 1969 and, after a dramatic finale, also the Le Mans 24 Hours in a Ford GT 40 . In 1971 he won the 24 hours of Daytona and the 1000 km of Monza with Pedro Rodríguez as his partner, this time with a Porsche 917 .

Career as a team manager

Oliver led the Arrows team, which had been represented in the Formula 1 World Cup for a long time and also drove in Formula 1 under the name Footwork . The team founders Franco Ambrosio (A), Alan Rees (R), Jackie Oliver (O), Dave Wass (W) and Tony Southgate (S) gave the team its name with their first letters. Since Jackie Oliver was not only a good businessman, but also an excellent diplomat (which was more important in Formula 1 at that time than it is today), the team founders agreed that Oliver should take over the team management.

Oliver led the team to some successes such as fourth place in the constructors' championship in 1988 (then under the name "Footwork"). Over time, more and more shares in the Arrows racing team were sold to Tom Walkinshaw , so that Jackie Oliver gradually withdrew from Formula 1.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th
1967
							5 1
1968
			DNF	5 *	NC		DNF	11	DNF	DNF	DNS	3
1969
	7th	DNF	DNF	DNF		DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	6th
1970
	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	5	DNF	NC	7th	DNF
1971
						DNF		9	7th
1972
							DNF
1973
			DNF	DNF	DNF	10	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	8th	DNF	11	3	13
1977
								9

¹ participation as a Formula 2 driver, no World Championship points

Legend
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
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1968	John Wyer Automotive Engineering	Ford GT40	Brian Muir	failure	Clutch damage
1969	John Wyer Automotive Engineering	Ford GT40	Jacky Ickx	Overall victory
1971	John Wyer Automotive Engineering	Porsche 917L	Pedro Rodríguez	failure	Oil pump

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1969	JW Automotive Engineering Ltd.	Ford GT40	Jacky Ickx	Overall victory
1971	JW Automotive Engineering Ltd.	Porsche 917K	Pedro Rodríguez	Rank 4

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th
1967	Drury Racing Dawnay Racing Lotus	Ford GT40 Lotus 47	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
					DNF	8th						9
1968	Lotus JW Automotive	Lotus 47	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
					10							DNF
1969	JW Automotive	Ford GT40 Mirage M2 Mirage M3	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
			26th	1	DNF			DNF	DNF	1	DNF	DNF
1970	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 512S	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
					8th
1971	JW Automotive	Porsche 917	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
			2	1	4th	DNF	1	1			DNF
1976	Shadow	Shadow DN4	MUG	VAL	ONLY	MON	SIL	IMO	ONLY	ZEL	BY	WAT	MOS	DIJ	DIJ	SAL
													1

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .
• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who, 3rd Edition . Travel Publishing, London 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8

Web links

Commons : Jackie Oliver  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jackie Oliver at Racing Sports Cars