Jacky Ickx didn’t develop up eager to be a racing driver, so how did he develop into Belgium’s most profitable System 1 driver and one of the versatile racers within the historical past of motorsport?
Competing in all varieties of automobiles and competitions, not solely did Ickx win eight F1 races and end runner-up within the Drivers’ Standings twice, however he was additionally a serial winner in Le Mans, the World Endurance Championship and even the Paris-Dakar rally.
Talking to Past The Grid host Tom Clarkson, Ickx tells the exceptional story of how he made his F1 debut in a System 2 automobile on the 1966 German Grand Prix. At the moment, F2 automobiles had been allowed to race alongside F1 equipment due to how lengthy the long-lasting Nürburgring Nordschleife monitor was.
Ickx reveals how his spectacular performances within the F2 automobile led to him becoming a member of Ferrari in 1968, why he left the group after only one season, solely to return a yr later, and what his relationship with Enzo Ferrari was like.
Ickx additionally remembers how he felt ending runner-up in 1970 to Jochen Rindt, the one driver to be topped World Champion posthumously, and also you’ll hear the story of his inspirational one-man protest on monitor that modified the security of Le Mans endlessly.
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