Jacky Ickx is one of the true greats of motor racing. In a career
spanning nearly 40 years, he was both highly successful and hugely
versatile, racing at the highest level in a wide variety of
categories - including Formula 1, sports cars, touring cars and
rally raids - and winning throughout. Among many accolades, he won
the Le Mans 24 Hours an unprecedented six times and twice finished
runner-up in the Formula 1 World Championship. This exhaustively
researched book has been written with his full co-operation and
outlines every one of the 565 races that he contested in cars and
on motorcycles, forming a detailed and insightful record of his
racing life supported by over 850 photographs, many of which have
never been published before. This is a racing driver's biography of
exceptional depth that all motorsport enthusiasts will treasure.
Key content * Starting in motorcycle trials, Ickx was twice crowned
Belgian champion before switching to four wheels; he immediately
proved himself a winner in touring cars and single-seaters,
becoming European Formula 2 Champion in 1967. * From 1967, he
established himself as a star in sports cars, driving
blue-and-orange Gulf Mirages and Ford GT40s to numerous successes,
culminating in his first Le Mans victory in 1969 with its famously
close finish. * Snapped up by Ferrari for 1968, he achieved a
heroic first Formula 1 victory in that year's rain-soaked French
Grand Prix, confirming his career-long reputation for peerless
driving in wet weather. * Other than one season with Brabham, Ickx
spent his best Formula 1 years with Ferrari, achieving eight wins
in the period 1968-72, and twice finishing second in the World
Championship standings, with Brabham (1969) and Ferrari (1970). *
Post-Ferrari, his Formula 1 fortunes waned but he thrived in sports
cars, claiming three successive Le Mans victories, with Mirage in
1975, then with Porsche. * After his fifth Le Mans win in 1981, the
rebirth of sports car racing in the Group C era from 1982 saw Ickx
as anchorman in the all-conquering works Porsche team, a four-year
period that brought his record sixth Le Mans victory, 12 wins in
total, and two World Champion titles. * After retirement from
circuit racing, his later career took him into entirely different
motorsport adventures in rally raids, where his Paris-Dakar record
includes victory in 1983 (driving a Mercedes-Benz) and second
places in 1986 (Porsche) and 1989 (Peugeot).
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