Jackie Oliver
Nation: | United Kingdom | ||||||||
Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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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 ) | ||||||||
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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 .
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 |
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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 | ||
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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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() | Streak results | |
underlined | Leader in the overall standings |
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Oliver, Jackie |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oliver, Keith Jack (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Formula 1 racing driver and team boss |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1942 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chadwell Heath |