Jean-Pierre Jabouille

Jean-Pierre Jabouille

Nation:	France
Automobile / Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1975 French Grand Prix
Last start:	1981 Spanish Grand Prix
Constructors
1974  Frank Williams Racing Cars 1975  Tyrrell  1977–1980  Renault  1981  Ligier
statistics
World Cup balance:	World Cup eighth ( 1980 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 49 2 6th -
World Cup points :	21st
Podiums :	2
Leadership laps :	186 over 985.142 km

Jean-Pierre Jabouille (born October 1, 1942 in Paris ) is a former French racing driver . He competed in the automobile world championship from 1975 to 1981 and scored two victories.

Career

Jean-Pierre Jabouille began his career in 1965 with hill climbs, but soon with the help of his mechanic and later brother- Jacques Laffite in the French Formula 3 , where he on a customer Brabham and later on Matra soon made an impression and in 1968, 1969 and 1971 each won the runner-up. On Matra he also drove in Formula 2 , where he became European Champion in 1976 , as well as for the Matra sports car team.

Jean-Pierre Jabouille at the 1975 Formula 2 race in Zolder

Jabouille made his first attempt in Formula 1 at the 1974 French Grand Prix in Dijon when he was registered for the underfunded British team Frank Williams Racing Cars . Williams used self-developed vehicles under the designation Iso-Marlboro FW01 , which were technically not fully developed. Jabouille was overwhelmed with this racing car; he clearly missed qualification by 0.7 seconds.

Jabouille made his racing debut in Formula 1 a year later on the Circuit Paul Ricard . This time he drove for the better equipped Tyrrell team , which fielded a third car for Jabouille alongside regular drivers Jody Scheckter and Patrick Depailler . Jabouille finished 12th here.

1977 began the phase of his career that would make him widely known: He was hired as a test driver and test driver for Renault's new Formula 1 racing team . Renault dared to do the unthinkable at the time and used a 1.5-liter V6 engine with turbocharging . Under the mockery of the competition ("teapot"), the premiere year was disappointing with countless defects in the engine area, but the first points were scored the following year and the breakthrough finally came in 1979 when Jabouille won the French Grand Prix in Dijon. He was able to repeat this success in 1980 at the Austrian Grand Prix , and in both years he took pole position a total of six times.

The excellent test driver Jabouille had turned the Renault into a front-runner , but the rocket-like speed of the Renault Turbo had its downside in many defects that cost Jabouille numerous top positions. At the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal in October 1980, Jabouille suffered such complicated broken legs in a serious accident that his Formula 1 career was de facto over. Although he attempted a comeback on Ligier- Talbot in 1981, he had to give up this commitment after just three races. After a brief stint in the Ligier management team, he turned his back on the sport and opened a restaurant in Paris .

In 1984 Jean-Pierre Jabouille made a comeback as a racing driver for Peugeot in the French touring car championship. He was to remain loyal to this brand in the following years, first as a racing driver in 1992 and 1993 at Le Mans and then as Head of Peugeot Sports. In this role he led Peugeot into Formula 1 as McLaren's engine partner , but was relieved of his position in 1996 after two weak seasons. He then built his own sports car team JB-Racing. In 2005, Jabouille competed alongside Alain Prost in races for the French GT series.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile / automobile world championship

Grand Prix victories

1979 French Grand Prix ( Dijon-Prenois )

1980 Austrian Grand Prix ( Spielberg )

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1974	Frank Williams Racing Cars Team Surtees	Iso-Marlboro FW01 Surtees TS16	Ford - Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1975	Eleven Team Tyrrell	Tyrrell 007	Ford-Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1977	Equipe Renault Elf	Renault RS01	Renault - Gordini EF1 1.5 V6t	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1978	Equipe Renault Elf	Renault RS01	Renault-Gordini EF1 1.5 V6t	14th	-	-	-	-	-	3	17th
1979	Equipe Renault Elf	Renault RS01 Renault RS10	Renault-Gordini EF1 1.5 V6t	15th	1	-	-	4th	-	9	13.
1980	Equipe Renault Elf	Renault RE20	Renault-Gordini EF1 1.5 V6t	13	1	-	-	2	-	9	8th.
1981	Equipe Talbot Gitanes	Ligier JS17	Matra MS81 3.0 V12	5	-	-	-	-	-	0	NC
total				55	2	0	0	6th	0	21st

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th
1974
									DNQ			DNQ
1975
									12
1977
										DNF			DNF	DNF	DNF	DNQ
1978
			DNF	DNF	10	NC	13	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	4th	12
1979
	DNF	10	DNF	DNS	DNF	DNF	NC	1	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	14 *	DNF	DNF
1980
	DNF	DNF	DNF	10	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	1	DNF	DNF	DNF
1981
			DNQ	NC	DNF	DNQ	DNF

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	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1968	Société des Automobiles Alpine	Alpine A220	Masts Gregory			failure	Electrics
1969	Société des Automobiles Alpine	Alpine A220	Patrick Depailler			failure	drive shaft
1970	Equipe Matra-Simca	Matra-Simca MS660	Patrick Depailler			failure	Engine failure
1972	Equipe Matra Simca	Matra MS660C	David Hobbs			failure	Clutch damage
1973	Equipe Matra Simca Shell	Matra MS670B	Jean-Pierre Jaussaud			Rank 3
1974	Equipe Gitanes	Matra-Simca MS670C	François Migault			Rank 3
1976	Renault Sport	Alpine A442	José Dolhem	Patrick Tambay		failure	Cylinder damage
1977	Team Renault Sport	Alpine A442	Derek Bell			failure	Engine failure
1978	Equipe Renault Elf Sport Calberson	Alpine A442B	José Dolhem	Jean Ragnotti	Guy Fréquelin	failure	Engine failure
1989	Team Sauber Mercedes	Clean C9	Jean-Louis Schlesser	Alain Cudini		Rank 5
1991	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905	Philippe Alliot	Mauro Baldi		failure	Engine failure
1992	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905	Philippe Alliot	Mauro Baldi		Rank 3
1993	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905	Philippe Alliot	Mauro Baldi		Rank 3

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
1966	Hubert Giraud	Marcos Mini GT	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
					DNF
1968	Alpine	Alpine A220	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
												DNF
1969	Alpine	Alpine A220	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
						6th		DNF		DNF
1970	Matra	Matra MS660	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
										DNF
1971	Matra	Matra MS660	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
			DNF
1972	Matra	Matra MS660	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
											DNF
1973	Matra	Matra MS670	DAY	VAL	DIJ	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
										3
1974	Alpine Matra	Alpine A441 Matra MS670	MON	SPA	ONLY	IMO	LEM	ZEL	WAT	LEC	BRH	KYA
					10		3
1975	Alpine Renault	Alpine A441 Alpine A442	DAY	MUG	DIJ	MON	SPA	BY	ONLY	ZEL	WAT
				1	DNF	3			4th
1976	Renault Sport	Alpine A442	MUG	VAL	ONLY	MON	SIL	IMO	ONLY	ZEL	BY	WAT	MOS	DIJ	DIJ	SAL
					DNF	DNF							17th		3
1978	Sports Calberson	Alpine A442	DAY	SEB	MUG	VALLEY	DIJ	SIL	ONLY	LEM	MIS	DAY	WAT	VAL	ROD
										4th
1990	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905	SUZ	MON	SIL	SPA	DIJ	ONLY	DON	MOT	MEX
										DNF	13
1991	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905	SUZ	MON	SIL	LEM	ONLY	LIKE	MEX	AUT
						DNF
1992	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905	MON	SIL	LEM	DON	SUZ	LIKE
					3

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 .

Web links

Commons : Jean-Pierre Jabouille  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jean-Pierre Jabouille at Racing Sports Cars