Patrick Tambay
Nation: | France | ||||||||
Automobile / Formula 1 world championship | |||||||||
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First start: | Great Britain Grand Prix 1977 | ||||||||
Last start: | 1986 Australian Grand Prix | ||||||||
Constructors | |||||||||
1977 Theodore • 1978–1979 McLaren • 1981 Theodore • 1981 Ligier • 1982–1983 Ferrari • 1984–1985 Renault • 1986 Haas | |||||||||
statistics | |||||||||
World Cup balance: | World Cup fourth ( 1983 ) | ||||||||
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World Cup points : | 103 | ||||||||
Podiums : | 11 | ||||||||
Leadership laps : | 199 over 986 km |
Patrick Tambay (born June 25, 1949 in Paris ) is a former French racing driver . He took u. a. between 1977 and 1986 participated in over 100 Grand Prix races for the Formula 1 world championship. Tambay's son Adrien is also a racing driver.
Career
Tambay drove his first Formula 1 race in 1977 at Silverstone and his last in 1986 in Adelaide . He won two of 114 races, took pole position five times and achieved a total of 103 World Championship points. He worked as a driver for McLaren , Ligier , Theodore , Ferrari , Renault and Lola .
The charming and cosmopolitan Frenchman with the movie star look was one of the most popular appearances in Formula 1 in the early 1980s. As a former ski racer and graduate of the Winfield Racing School on the Circuit Paul Ricard in 1971, he made his way through the French junior formulas to the Formula 2 European Championship , in which he was always at the top from 1974 to 1976 , the title however missed. After a short and very successful run in the North American Can-Am series with Carl Haas' team , where he won six of seven races, he made his Grand Prix debut with the Theodore team at the 1977 British Grand Prix in Silverstone Ensign constructed by Mo Nunn . Patrick Tambay impressed in his first Formula 1 season with seventh place on the grid in Austria and five championship points, so that McLaren signed him for 1978. The new M26 was hardly competitive, however, so that only eight World Championship points had been achieved by the end of the season. In the following season, Tambay was contractually forbidden to conduct test drives in advance, whereupon he did not score a championship point. So disappointed, he moved back to Can-Am for 1980, where he was able to celebrate his second title after 1977.
The successes in North America enabled him to regain a foothold in Formula 1 just a year later. In 1981 he was hired by the Hong Kong Chinese Teddy Yip's Theodore team. With the mediocre monoposto, he finished sixth in the debut race in Long Beach and seventh in the Monaco Grand Prix . During the season he switched to the more successful Ligier- Talbot team, where a place had become vacant after the resignation of Jean-Pierre Jabouille . However, Tambay did not finish in a single race in the new car and had a serious accident at the last Grand Prix of the season in Las Vegas .
1982 was a very eventful year for Patrick Tambay. Initially a substitute for the injured Marc Surer at Arrows , there was a driver strike at the first race of the new season in Kyalami because of the new super licenses. Disgusted by the political quarrels, Patrick Tambay then withdrew again from Formula 1, but was hired by Ferrari as a substitute driver after Gilles Villeneuve's fatal accident at the Belgian Grand Prix in Zolder . The two following seasons with Ferrari were the most successful of his Formula 1 career. At the Grand Prix of Germany in Hockenheim he won his first Grand Prix, at the same time he was by the accident of Didier Pironi Team leader. 25 World Championship points were enough for seventh place overall this year. In addition, Tambay contributed with his points to win the constructors championship by Ferrari. In the 1983 season he won the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola , was on pole position four times and was fourth with 40 points in the final. Tambay also had a share in Ferrari's renewed victory in the constructors' championship.
However, since he could not realize his World Cup chances, he was replaced by Ferrari for 1984 by Michele Alboreto . He signed on with the Renault team and took pole position at the French Grand Prix in Dijon in 1984 and finished second (it was the only time he was able to finish a race from pole). In 1985 he finished third on the podium twice, but at the end of 1985 Renault withdrew from Formula 1. He built on his old relationship with Carl Haas, who had meanwhile come to Formula 1 with the Beatrice Lola team, and was signed by him for 1986 . The car was never really competitive and Tambay only scored two championship points despite some good qualifying performances. At the end of the year the team was sold to Bernie Ecclestone . Patrick Tambay's Formula 1 career ended with that.
In 1989 he started in the sports car world championship on TWR - Jaguar and finished fourth in Le Mans . In addition, he contested the Dakar Rally and ice races in France , he also worked as a TV commentator and at short notice he was also seen as a team member of the Larrousse team.
Tambay now suffers from Parkinson's disease .
statistics
Statistics in the automobile / Formula 1 world championship
These statistics include all participations of the driver in the Formula 1 World Championship , which until 1980 was known as the Automobile World Championship.
Grand Prix victories
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Single results
season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | 17th |
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1977 | |||||||||||||||||
DNQ | DNF | 6th | DNF | 5 * | DNF | DNQ | 5 | DNF | |||||||||
1978 | |||||||||||||||||
6th | DNF | DNF | 12 * | 7th | DNF | 4th | 9 | 6th | DNF | DNF | 9 | 5 | 6th | 8th | |||
1979 | |||||||||||||||||
DNF | DNF | 10 | DNF | 13 | DNQ | DNQ | 10 | 7 * | DNF | 10 | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | |||
1981 | |||||||||||||||||
6th | 10 | DNF | 11 | DNQ | 7th | 13 | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | |||
1982 | |||||||||||||||||
8th | 3 | 4th | 1 | 4th | DNS | 2 | DNS | ||||||||||
1983 | |||||||||||||||||
5 | DNF | 4th | 1 | 4th | 2 | DNF | 3 | 3 | DNF | DNF | 2 | 4th | DNF | DNF | |||
1984 | |||||||||||||||||
5 * | DNF | 7th | DNF | 2 | DNF | DNS | DNF | DNF | 8th* | 5 | DNF | 6th | DNF | DNF | 7th | ||
1985 | |||||||||||||||||
5 | 3 | 3 | DNF | 7th | DNF | 6th | DNF | DNF | 10 * | DNF | 7th | DNF | 12 | DNF | |||
1986 | |||||||||||||||||
DNF | 8th | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNS | DNF | DNF | 8th | 7th | 5 | DNF | NC | DNF | NC |
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 | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1976 | Renault Sport | Alpine A442 | José Dolhem | Jean-Pierre Jabouille | failure | Cylinder damage |
1977 | Renault Sport | Alpine A442 | Jean-Pierre Jaussaud | failure | Engine failure | |
1981 | Jean Rondeau | Rondeau M379C | Henri Pescarolo | failure | Engine failure | |
1989 | Silk Cut Jaguar | Jaguar XJR9-LM | Jan Lammers | Andrew Gilbert-Scott | Rank 4 |
Web links
- Biography (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Gary Anderson answers ..." in: www.motorsport-total.com - November 23, 2016. Accessed November 24, 2016
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Tambay, Patrick |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French racing car driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1949 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |