Jacky Ickx

Jacky Ickx

Jacky Ickx in 2013.
Born	Jacques Bernard Ickx (1945-01-01) 1 January 1945
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Belgian
Active years	1967 – 1979
Teams	Cooper · Ferrari · Brabham · McLaren · Williams · Lotus · Wolf · Ensign · Ligier
Entries	122 (116 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	8
Podiums	25
Career points	181
Pole positions	13
Fastest laps	14
First entry	1966 German Grand Prix
First win	1968 French Grand Prix
Last win	1972 German Grand Prix
Last entry	1979 United States Grand Prix
24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 1966–1967, 1969–1970, 1973, 1975–1983, 1985 Teams Essex Wire Corporation John Wyer Automotive Scuderia Ferrari Gulf Research Racing Martini Racing Porsche System Essex Motorsport Porsche Equipe Liqui Moly – Martini Racing Porsche System Rothmans Porsche Best finish 1st (1969, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982) Class wins 6 (1969, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982)

Jacques Bernard "Jacky" Ickx (last name pronounced "Ix" or "Icks") (born 1 January 1945 in Brussels) is a Belgian former racing driver who won the highly prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans six times, achieved eight wins and 25 podium finishes in Formula One, won the Can-Am Championship in 1979 and is a former winner of the Dakar Rally.

Early racing career

Jacky Ickx driving a Ferrari 312PB at the Nürburgring in 1973

Jacky Ickx was introduced to the sport when he was taken by his father, motoring journalist Jacques Ickx, to races which he covered. Despite this family background, Jacky had limited interest in the sport until his father bought him a 50 cc Zündapp motorcycle. Soon afterwards, Ickx won 8 of 13 races at the first season and the European 50 cc trials title. He took another two titles before he moved to racing a Lotus Cortina in touring car racing, taking his national saloon car championship in 1965, as well as winning the Spa 24 Hours race in 1966 driving a BMW 2000TI. He also competed in sports car races where he had already significant experience from taking part in the 1000 km races at the Nürburgring.

Formula One

Early career

Ickx entered his first Grand Prix at the Nürburgring in 1966, driving a Matra MS5-Cosworth one-litre Formula Two (F2) car, entered by Ken Tyrrell. However, a first lap collision with John Taylor caused both cars to retire and Taylor later died as a result of burns received in the accident. In 1967, Ickx again drove at the Nurburgring, with an F2 Matra MS7-Cosworth 1.6-litre, also entered by Tyrrell. Despite the greater power of the Formula One (F1) cars, only two F1 drivers qualified with a faster time than Ickx: Denny Hulme and Jim Clark. As Ickx was racing in the separate F2 class, he started the race behind all of the F1 cars, but within four laps of the 28 km circuit he was up to fifth place, having overtaken 12 F1 cars. He was forced to retire after 12 laps with broken front suspension, but set fastest lap of the F2 runners.

At Monza in 1967, he made his F1 debut in a Cooper T81B-Maserati, finishing sixth, despite suffering a puncture on the last lap. he also drove for Cooper in the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen but retired on lap 45 with overheating.

1968: Ferrari

Ickx at the 1968 Dutch Grand Prix.

In 1968 Ickx drove in Formula 1 for Ferrari. He retired from his first two races, but at his home race at Spa-Francorchamps he started from the front row and finished 3rd. At the French Grand Prix at Rouen he took his first win, in heavy rain. Ickx also finished third at Brands Hatch and fourth at the Nürburgring after driving almost the entire race in heavy rain without his helmet visor. At Monza he finished the race in third position. In Canada he crashed and broke his left leg during practice, thus did not start and also missed the subsequent United States Grand Prix. He returned in time for the final race of the season in Mexico. Ickx scored 33 points in the 1968 Formula One season finishing in third place behind Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart.

1969: Brabham

In 1969, Ickx moved to Brabham, partly at the instigation of the John Wyer team for whom he'd had considerable success in sports cars. Wyer's main sponsor, Gulf Oil were keen to ensure that they retained his services rather than possibly lose him to Ferrari's sports car team. His first results at Brabham were poor, but after Jack Brabham broke his foot in a testing accident, Ickx's results improved: Alan Henry suggests that Ickx performed better with the whole team focussed on him. Ickx finished third in France, second in Great Britain and won in Canada and in Germany at the Nürburgring, where he also took pole position and fastest lap, in the last Formula One race there before 'The Ring' was made less bumpy and dangerous. In the 1969 Mexican Grand Prix Ickx finished second and ended the year as runner-up in the drivers' world championship, behind Stewart. He returned to the Ferrari team for the 1970 season, a move he had been considering since the Italian Grand Prix.

1970–1973: Ferrari

As in 1969, Ickx had a disappointing start to the 1970 season. On the first lap of the Spanish Grand Prix he collided with the BRM of Jackie Oliver and his car caught fire. It took at least 20 seconds for him to leave the burning car and he was hospitalized with severe burns. After 17 days he was back in his car at the Monaco Grand Prix, where he ran fifth before retiring with a driveshaft failure. The car started to improve and at the German Grand Prix (held at Hockenheim as his favourite Nürburgring was boycotted for safety reasons) he fought with Jochen Rindt for the win, but finished a close second. At the Austrian Grand Prix it was Ickx that took the win. At Monza, Rindt died in an accident during free practice. Ickx was the only driver with a chance to take the championship from Rindt who had already won five of nine races in that season, with four more to go. Monza saw a win by Ferrari team-mate Clay Regazzoni while Ickx's car broke down. The Belgian took the win at Canada but in the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen he only finished fourth, with Emerson Fittipaldi scoring his first win for Lotus as well as the Championships for the team and his late team-mate. Despite winning the last race in Mexico, Ickx could not beat Rindt's points total. Ickx later stated in a 2011 article in the British magazine Motor Sport, that he was glad he didn't win the 1970 World Championship. He did not want to win against a man who could not defend his chances, referring to the deceased Rindt.

Jacky Ickx's Ferrari 312B2 (1971/72)

In 1971, Ickx and Ferrari started as favourites, but the championship went to Jackie Stewart with the new Tyrrell. Ferrari traditionally started the season with its full attention on the sports car championship rather than Formula One, a fact that had already caused John Surtees to leave in the middle of the 1966 season. Ickx won at Zandvoort in the rain with Firestone wet tyres, while Stewart had no chance with his Goodyear rubber. After that, he had a lot of retirements, while Stewart took one win after the other, despite Ickx giving him a good challenge at the Nürburgring once again, where both drivers shared victories from 1968 to 1973. That long and very challenging track was the favourite of Ickx, while Stewart had called it the 'Green Hell' as well as being a driving force behind the driver boycott of 1970 that urged the Germans to rework the layout of the track, which had been built in 1927. Stewart said the only thing that had changed since then were the trees growing bigger. As requested, those near the track were cut and replaced with a small run-off area, and armco. So, the Scot and the Belgian not only fought on the track, but also off the track. Stewart was constantly fighting for more safety in Formula One, while Ickx thought by doing that the challenge was taken out of the sport.

Ickx in his Ferrari at the 1971 Dutch Grand Prix

In 1972, Ickx stayed at Ferrari and finished second in Spain and Monaco. After that the Ferrari only got noticed for its retirements. Yet, once again it was the Nürburgring where Ickx was eager to show it was his track, giving his great rival Stewart no chance at all. As for Stewart one year later, and other champions such as Juan Manuel Fangio in 1957, it turned out that the last Formula One win for Ickx came at Nürburgring, where superior driving skill could beat superior machinery.

In 1973, the Ferrari 312B3 was no longer competitive, and Ickx only managed one fourth place at the opening Grand Prix of the season. While being successful with their sports cars, which were driven to several wins by Ickx himself, the Formula One programme of the Italians was outclassed, and they even had to skip some races, notably at the Nürburgring. This was not acceptable to Ickx, who left the team halfway through the season, (after the 1973 British Grand Prix, where he finished eighth). Instead, he competed in the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring in a McLaren, and scored a sterling third place behind the all-conquering Tyrrells of Stewart and François Cevert. Ickx returned to Ferrari for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza again finishing eighth but drove for Williams in the 1973 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen finishing seventh.

1974–1975: Lotus

When Ickx signed with Team Lotus in 1974, a difficult period awaited. Lotus had problems replacing the successful but ageing Lotus 72 (which debuted in 1970) with the troublesome Lotus 76 and, during the opening races of the championship, Ickx only managed a solitary third place in Brazil. Ickx demonstrated that he was still the Rain Master when he won the non-championship Race of Champions at Brands Hatch after having passed Niki Lauda on the outside at Paddock Bend. After the Brazilian Grand Prix his season deteriorated, the Lotus-Ford retiring in five consecutive races until an eleventh-place finish at Zandvoort. However, in mid season Ickx recovered some form, rising through the field in the British Grand Prix to finish a strong third. Even better was his drive in the German Grand Prix. For most of the race Ickx dueled for fourth place with his teammate Ronnie Peterson who was using a Lotus 76, which had been grafted to the back end of a Lotus 72, Mike Hailwood in a McLaren M23 and Jochen Mass in a Surtees running on his home circuit on Firestone tyres well suited to the circuit. It was a classic duel on the daunting circuit, which still lacked armco around half the track in 1974. Two laps from the end Hailwood crashed badly ending his F1 career. On the last two laps Ickx was getting close to 3rd place Carlos Reutemann, but on the final lap, Ronnie Peterson slipstreamed past to claim 4th. In Austria, Ickx, this time in the Lotus 76, moved up the field but went off while attempting to take Depailler for second. In the last races of the year, tyre issues with Goodyears unsuitable for the Lotus 72 and 76 meant Lotus were not competitive.

1975 was even more disastrous for Lotus and Ickx left the team halfway through the season, even though he managed a second place in the chaotic Spanish Grand Prix which was overshadowed by accidents and stopped before half distance. Ickx was generally qualifying about 0.8 seconds slower than team-mate Peterson (Ickx was not the only driver to suffer from Peterson's blinding pace: Mario Andretti, running with just a four lap fuel load, could not get within 2 seconds of Peterson on a full tank in the same car during practice for the British GP in 1978). Ickx was stood down after the 1975 French GP with the promise that Chapman might re-employ him when a competitive new Lotus was ready to race. Ickx did not compete in Formula One for the remainder of 1975.

Later career: 1976–1979

It seemed that the end of Ickx's career was near. After Fittipaldi left McLaren, Ickx was thought likely to get the drive, but tobacco company promoter John Hogan preferred James Hunt. In 1976 Ickx began the season with Williams (then entering as "Frank Williams Racing Cars"), but after three races signed with the new team of Walter Wolf Racing, which had substantial financial backing from Wolf. The Wolf team were also running the Wolf-Williams FW05 which was essentially a rebadged Hesketh 308C from 1975 and was uncompetitive. However, at the Race of Champions, Ickx was challenging Hunt and Alan Jones for the lead, when Ickx's visor ripped off. In the world championship races he failed to qualify on four occasions, (a first in his career) achieving a degree of respectability only with a 7th in Spain and a good drive to 10th out of 19 finishers in the French GP in a car which, in the estimate of James Hunt and Chris Amon, was worse than useless. Nevertheless, for a large payment from Wolf, Amon agreed to swap drives with Ickx and Ickx raced the rest of the season in the fast and fragile Lotus styled Ensign N176, in which design Amon had suffered horrific breakages at Zolder and in the Swedish GP. For most of the Dutch GP, Ickx moved through the field, running the third fastest lap and on most laps was the fastest car in the race. With a newer Cosworth engine, Ickx probably would have won, but the under-maintained engine expired ten laps from the end. In the Italian GP, Ickx drove at competitive pace in F1 for the last time, when he finished tenth, only 30 seconds behind winner Ronnie Peterson, hard on the tail of Carlos Reutemann in a works Ferrari 312T2 in ninth. After a bad crash at the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen which he was lucky to have survived with only ankle injuries, Ickx never really tried again in F1, only competing sporadically. In 1977 Ickx competed in only one Grand Prix at Monaco for Ensign finishing tenth. In 1978 he entered four Grands Prix, again for Ensign but only achieved a tweflth place at Zolder. In the Swedish Grand Prix at Anderstorp Ickx failed to qualify. In 1979 he ended his career as a Grand Prix driver at Ligier, standing in for the injured Patrick Depailler gaining a fifth and sixth, but finding the ground effect cars dangerous and disconcerting, ill suited to his precise style. Outside of Formula One, Ickx continued to win races in various sports car series, which he had decided to concentrate on exclusively.

Endurance racing

Career

Ickx's Gulf Ford GT40

In 1966, Ickx teamed up with Hubert Hahne in a BMW 2000TI to win the Spa 24 Hours endurance race in his native Belgium. In 1968 Ickx won the Brands Hatch six hour endurance race partnered with Brian Redman in a John Wyer entered Ford GT40 Mk1. Ickx would go on to win the Brands race on a further three occasions, in 1972 for Ferrari alongside Mario Andretti and 1977 and 1982 driving Porsches with Jochen Mass and Derek Bell respectively.

Ferrari 512S: Ickx drove the car during the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans.

In 1969 Jacky Ickx raced in the 24 hours of Le Mans for the first time. This race also saw the first appearance of the Porsche 917 at Le Mans, which was regarded by far as the favourite. The Ford GT40 that Ickx drove with Jackie Oliver appeared at that time to be an obsolete car, outperformed by the new Porsche 917 but also by the older Porsche 908 and the new generation of 3-litre prototypes from Ferrari, Matra and Alfa Romeo.

Ickx in 1975 at Spa

As Ickx was opposed to the traditional Le Mans start which he considered to be dangerous, he slowly walked across the track to his machine, instead of running. He locked the safety belt carefully and thus was the last to start the race, chasing the field. On lap one, a tragic event proved that Ickx was right: private driver John Woolfe, who had not taken time to belt himself in, had a fatal accident in his new and powerful 917.

During the race the Porsche 917 cars proved unreliable, and none finished. The last four hours of the race turned into a duel between the Porsche 908 of Hans Herrmann/Gérard Larrousse and the Ford GT-40 of Ickx/Oliver. In the last hour, Ickx and Herrmann continually leapfrogged each other, the Porsche being faster on the straights owing to having less aerodynamic drag, while being passed again under braking as the brake pads were worn and the team reckoned there was not enough time left to change them. Ickx won the race by the smallest of competitive margins ever, with less than 120 yards (110 m) between the two cars, despite having lost a bigger distance intentionally at the start. He also won his case for safety: from 1970, all drivers could start the race sitting in their cars with the belts tightened properly.

In later years, Ickx won a record six times at the 24h race at Le Mans, becoming known as "Monsieur Le Mans". Three of the wins were with Derek Bell: this would become one of the most legendary partnerships. In 2005, Tom Kristensen surpassed Ickx's record and when Kristensen announced his proposed retirement at the end of the 2014 season had nine victories.

Ickx's Rothmans Porsche 956

From 1976 on, he was a factory driver for Porsche and their new turbocharged race cars, the 935 and especially the 936 sports car, which he drove to wins in Le Mans three times. These drives, as well as the losing effort in 1978, often in the rain and at night, were some of the finest ever. Jacky Ickx considers the 1977 24 Hours of Le Mans race to be his favourite win of all time. Retiring earlier on in another Porsche 936, which he shared with Henri Pescarolo, the team transferred him to the car of Jürgen Barth and Hurley Haywood which was in 42nd place. Ickx made up for lost laps to lead the race by early morning, but suffered a mechanical problem which forced the car to pit. The mechanics resolved the issue by switching off one cylinder, and Ickx went on to win the race. The win in 1982 came with the new and superior Porsche 956 model, though, which carried him to two titles as world champion of endurance racing, in 1982 and 1983.

In 1983, Ickx was the team leader at Porsche, but a new teammate was faster than he was: young German Stefan Bellof set new lap records at the Nürburgring in the last ever sports car race held on the original configuration of Ickx's favourite track. As it turned out, Ickx and Bellof would become involved in controversial events later on.

In 1984, Ickx acted as Formula One race director in Monaco, and red-flagged the race because of rain, just as leader Alain Prost in a Porsche-powered McLaren was caught by a young Ayrton Senna. Also, Stefan Bellof had started from the back of the grid, as his underpowered Tyrrell-Cosworth could not provide extra boost in qualifying like the turbo-powered cars. Yet, in the wet race, he managed to pass many others and was on pace to catch both Senna and Prost, when Ickx decided to stop the race. That meant the win went to Prost, but owing to the short distance covered overall, only half the points for the win were awarded (4.5), less than for a second place in a full race (6). Prost subsequently lost the 1984 championship to Niki Lauda by half a point.

In 1985, Ickx was involved with Bellof again, but with tragic consequences. Bellof raced a privateer Porsche while waiting to join the Ferrari F1 team in 1986, which had promised him a seat after his performance in Monaco, similar to what they had done for Lauda after he outclassed Ickx there in 1973. At Spa, Ickx's home track, the young German in the private Porsche 956 of Walter Brun tried to pass the experienced Belgian in the factory Porsche 962 for 1st place after being held up by Ickx for 3 laps. At Eau Rouge corner, Bellof attempted the pass with disastrous consequences, as Ickx closed the door the cars collided and crashed, Bellof tragically dying an hour later, while Ickx was shaken but unharmed. He retired from professional circuit racing at the end of the season.

24 hours of Le Mans victories

• 1969 – Jacky Ickx / Jackie Oliver (Ford GT-40)
• 1975 – Jacky Ickx / Derek Bell (Mirage GR8)
• 1976 – Jacky Ickx / Gijs van Lennep (Porsche 936)
• 1977 – Jacky Ickx / Hurley Haywood / Jürgen Barth (Porsche 936)
• 1981 – Jacky Ickx / Derek Bell (Porsche 936)
• 1982 – Jacky Ickx / Derek Bell (Porsche 956)

Other races

Ickx also co-drove to victory with Allan Moffat at the 1977 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 in Australia, becoming the last debutant to win the race until 2011, when Nick Percat matched this feat partnering two time winner Garth Tander, became champion of Can-Am in 1979, and won the Rally Paris-Dakar in 1983 in a Mercedes-Benz G-Class. The victory at the Bathurst 1000 was in a Ford XC Falcon Group C Touring Car manufactured in Australia with limited modifications for racing. After only days practice in a car he had never driven before he was doing lap times the same or quicker than drivers who drove nothing else and who were familiar with the circuit.

In 1979, in the newly-reborn Can-Am series for rebodied covered wheel Formula 5000 cars, Ickx won against strong opposition from Keke Rosberg, Elliot Forbes-Robinson and Bobby Rahal. Formula One fledgling Rosberg drove his Can Am car with ferocity, but often went off the road trying to match the pace of Ickx, who won the series decisively at the season finale at Riverside. The previous weekend, on the dangerous and undulating Laguna Seca circuit near Monterey, Ickx elected to race conservatively rather than going after leaders Forbes-Robinson and Rosberg, but film of the race indicates the brutal nature of this late generation of Can Am racing. Ickx did not return to defend his title the following season.

One of his other Le Mans 24 hour victories in a non-driving capacity was when he consulted for the Oreca team who were running a Mazda 787B for Mazdaspeed in 1991. Ickx was also selected to participate in the 1978 and 1984 editions of the International Race of Champions.

Although he had never driven a stock car before, Ickx was entered to race in the 1969 Daytona 500, in a car owned by Junior Johnson. A few days before the race, Ickx crashed the car during practice, and although he was not injured, the car was damaged beyond repair. The team's only backup car was needed by eventual race winner LeeRoy Yarbrough, so Ickx did not have the opportunity to race.

After he retired from his professional racing career, he continued to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, even competing with daughter Vanina in recent years. Nowadays, he appears in historic events as a driver, such as the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Monterey Historics, usually on behalf of Porsche and Ferrari. He still acts as the Clerk of the Course for the Monaco Grand Prix and is still a resident of Brussels.

Awards

• Awarded the Honorary Citizen of Le Mans prior to the 2000 race, the first sports person to do so.
• Inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2002.

In popular culture

• Ickx often appears in the famous Belgian Comics Michel Vaillant, as one of the main characters
• The Chopard Company developed three limited edition Chopard Mille Miglia Jacky Ickx Men's watches dedicated to him, with a fourth Chopard watch designed with his cooperation.

Personal life

Jacky Ickx in 2007.

Jacky Ickx is married to singer Khadja Nin. The couple were guests at the wedding of Prince Albert of Monaco and Charelene Wittstock in July 2011. Ickx became a resident of Monaco in the early 1980s.

Ickx's father Jacques Ickx and younger brother Pascal Ickx were racing drivers. His daughter, Vanina Ickx (from his first marriage with Catherine Ickx) followed in her father's footsteps to become a racing driver as well.

See also

• Dakar Rally
• 24 Hours of Le Mans
• Porsche 956
• Vanina Ickx

Racing record

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	WDC	Points
1966	Ken Tyrrell Racing	Matra MS5 F2	Cosworth Str-4	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	NED	GER Ret	ITA	USA	MEX									NC	0
1967	Ken Tyrrell Racing	Matra MS7 F2	Cosworth Str-4	RSA	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER Ret	CAN										20th	1
	Cooper Car Company	Cooper T81B	Maserati V12									ITA 6	USA Ret	MEX
1968	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 312	Ferrari V12	RSA Ret	ESP Ret	MON	BEL 3	NED 4	FRA 1	GBR 3	GER 4	ITA 3	CAN DNS	USA	MEX Ret						4th	27
1969	Motor Racing Developments	Brabham BT26A	Ford V8	RSA Ret	ESP 6	MON Ret	NED 5	FRA 3	GBR 2	GER 1	ITA 10	CAN 1	USA Ret	MEX 2							2nd	37
1970	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 312B	Ferrari F12	RSA Ret	ESP Ret	MON Ret	BEL 8	NED 3	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER 2	AUT 1	ITA Ret	CAN 1	USA 4	MEX 1					2nd	40
1971	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 312B	Ferrari F12	RSA 8	ESP 2							ITA Ret									4th	19
		Ferrari 312B2	Ferrari F12			MON 3	NED 1	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER Ret	AUT Ret		CAN 8	USA NC
1972	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 312B2	Ferrari F12	ARG 3	RSA 8	ESP 2	MON 2	BEL Ret	FRA 11	GBR Ret	GER 1	AUT Ret	ITA Ret	CAN 12	USA 5						4th	27
1973	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 312B2	Ferrari F12	ARG 4	BRA 5	RSA Ret															9th	12
		Ferrari 312B3	Ferrari F12				ESP 12	BEL Ret	MON Ret	SWE 6	FRA 5	GBR 8	NED			ITA 8	CAN
	Yardley Team McLaren	McLaren M23	Ford V8											GER 3	AUT
	Frank Williams Racing Cars	Iso-Marlboro IR	Ford V8															USA 7
1974	John Player Team Lotus	Lotus 72E	Ford V8	ARG Ret	BRA 3				MON Ret	SWE Ret	NED 11	FRA 5	GBR 3	GER 5			CAN 13	USA Ret			10th	12
		Lotus 76	Ford V8			RSA Ret	ESP Ret	BEL Ret							AUT Ret	ITA Ret
1975	John Player Team Lotus	Lotus 72E	Ford V8	ARG 8	BRA 9	RSA 12	ESP 2	MON 8	BEL Ret	SWE 15	NED Ret	FRA Ret	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	USA				16th	3
1976	Frank Williams Racing Cars	Wolf-Williams FW05	Ford V8	BRA 8	RSA 16	USW DNQ															NC	0
	Walter Wolf Racing	Wolf-Williams FW05	Ford V8				ESP 7	BEL DNQ	MON DNQ	SWE	FRA 10	GBR DNQ	GER	AUT
	Team Ensign	Ensign N176	Ford V8												NED Ret	ITA 10	CAN 13	USA Ret	JPN
1977	Team Tissot Ensign with Castrol	Ensign N177	Ford V8	ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	ESP	MON 10	BEL	SWE	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	USA	CAN	JPN	NC	0
1978	Team Tissot Ensign	Ensign N177	Ford V8	ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	MON Ret	BEL 12	ESP Ret	SWE DNQ	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	USA	CAN		NC	0
1979	Ligier Gitanes	Ligier JS11	Ford V8	ARG	BRA	RSA	USW	ESP	BEL	MON	FRA Ret	GBR 6	GER Ret	AUT Ret	NED 5	ITA Ret	CAN Ret	USA Ret			16th	3

Non-Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1967	Matra Sports	Matra MS5	Cosworth Str-4	ROC Ret	SPC	INT	SYR	OUL Ret	ESP DNS
1968	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 312/67	Ferrari V12	ROC 8	INT 4	OUL Ret
1969	Motor Racing Developments	Brabham BT26A	Ford V8	ROC Ret	INT 4	MAD	OUL 1
1971	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 312B	Ferrari F12	ARG	ROC	QUE 11	SPR	INT	RIN 1	OUL	VIC
1974	John Player Team Lotus	Lotus 72E	Ford V8	PRE	ROC 1	INT
1975	John Player Team Lotus	Lotus 72E	Ford V8	ROC 4	INT	SUI
1976	Hesketh Racing	Hesketh 308C	Cosworth V8	ROC 3
	Frank Williams Racing Cars	Wolf-Williams FW05	Ford V8		INT Ret
1978	Team Tissot Ensign	Ensign N177	Ford V8	INT Ret

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1966	Essex Wire Corporation	Jochen Neerpasch	Ford GT40 Mk.I	S 5.0	154	DNF	DNF
1967	John Wyer Automotive Engineering	Brian Muir	Mirage M1-Ford	P +5.0	29	DNF	DNF
1969	John Wyer Automotive Engineering	Jackie Oliver	Ford GT40 Mk.I	S 5.0	372	1st	1st
1970	SpA Ferrari SEFAC	Peter Schetty	Ferrari 512S	S 5.0	142	DNF	DNF
1973	SpA Ferrari SEFAC	Brian Redman	Ferrari 312PB	S 3.0	332	DNF	DNF
1975	Gulf Research Racing Co.	Derek Bell	Mirage GR8-Ford Cosworth	S 3.0	336	1st	1st
1976	Martini Racing Porsche System	Gijs van Lennep	Porsche 936	S 3.0	349	1st	1st
1977	Martini Racing Porsche System	Jürgen Barth Hurley Haywood	Porsche 936/77	S +2.0	342	1st	1st
1978	Martini Racing Porsche System	Bob Wollek Jürgen Barth	Porsche 936/78	S +2.0	364	2nd	2nd
1979	Essex Motorsport Porsche	Brian Redman Jürgen Barth	Porsche 936	S +2.0	200	DNF	DNF
1980	Equipe Liqui Moly – Martini Racing	Reinhold Joest	Porsche 908/80	S +2.0	336	2nd	2nd
1981	Porsche System	Derek Bell	Porsche 936	S +2.0	354	1st	1st
1982	Rothmans Porsche System	Derek Bell	Porsche 956	C	359	1st	1st
1983	Rothmans Porsche	Derek Bell	Porsche 956	C	370	2nd	2nd
1985	Rothmans Porsche	Jochen Mass	Porsche 962C	C1	348	10th	10th

Complete European Formula Two Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Place	Points
1967	Tyrrell Racing Organisation	Matra MS5 F2	Cosworth Str-4	SNE DNS	SIL 7	NUR 3	HOC 10	TUL 5	JAR	ZAN 1	EMM 3	BRH 5	VAL 1	1st	45

Dakar Rally results

Year	Class	Vehicle	Result	Stages
1981	Car	Citroen	DNF	1
1982		Mercedes-Benz	5th	7
1983			1st	5
1984		Porsche	6th	9
1985			DNF	1
1986			2nd	1
1987		Lada	DNF	0
1988			38th	0
1989		Peugeot	2nd	3
1990		Lada	7th	1
1991		Citroen	DNF	1
1992			6th	0
1993-1994	Did not enter
1995	Car	Toyota	18th	0
1996-1999	Did not enter
2000	Car	Mitsubishi	18th	0

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Books

External links

• Official Jacky Ickx Website
• Jacky Ickx in Le Mans 24h
• http://www.lemans.org
• Jacky Ickx miniature book, hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries Digital Collections

Sporting positions
Preceded by Warwick Banks	European Touring Car Champion (Div.3) 1965	Succeeded by Hubert Hahne
Preceded by None	European Formula Two Champion 1967	Succeeded by Jean-Pierre Beltoise
Preceded by Peter Gethin	Brands Hatch Race of Champions winner 1974	Succeeded by Tom Pryce
Preceded by Pedro Rodriguez Lucien Bianchi	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1969 with: Jackie Oliver	Succeeded by Hans Herrmann Richard Attwood
Preceded by Henri Pescarolo Gérard Larrousse	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1975 with: Derek Bell	Succeeded by Jacky Ickx Gijs van Lennep
Preceded by Jacky Ickx Derek Bell	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1976 with: Gijs van Lennep	Succeeded by Jacky Ickx Hurley Haywood Jürgen Barth
Preceded by Jacky Ickx Gijs van Lennep	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1977 with: Hurley Haywood Jürgen Barth	Succeeded by Jean-Pierre Jaussaud Didier Pironi
Preceded by Bob Morris John Fitzpatrick	Winner of the Bathurst 1000 1977 (with Allan Moffat)	Succeeded by Peter Brock Jim Richards
Preceded by Alan Jones	Can-Am Champion 1979	Succeeded by Patrick Tambay
Preceded by Jean Rondeau Jean-Pierre Jaussaud	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1981 and 1982 with: Derek Bell	Succeeded by Jacky Ickx Derek Bell
Preceded by Jacky Ickx Derek Bell	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1982 with: Derek Bell	Succeeded by Vern Schuppan Al Holbert Hurley Haywood
Preceded by Claude Marreau	Dakar Rally Car Winner 1983	Succeeded by René Metge
Preceded by Bob Garretson	World Endurance Champion 1982–1983	Succeeded by Stefan Bellof
Records
Preceded by Eugenio Castellotti 24 years, 238 days (1955 Belgian GP)	Youngest Grand Prix Polesitter 23 years, 216 days (1968 German Grand Prix)	Succeeded by Andrea de Cesaris 22 years, 308 days (1982 United States GP West)