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Jacques Bernard Edmon Martin Henri " Jacky " Ickx [1] ( French pronunciation: [ʒaki iks]; born 1 January 1945) is a Belgian former racing driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans six times (second-highest of all time) and achieved eight wins and 25 podium finishes in Formula One. He greatly contributed to several World Championships for Makes ...
- 1st ( 1969, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982)
- 1966-1967, 1969-1970, 1973, 1975-1983, 1985
- 6 ( 1969, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982)
Mar 29, 2021 · Rob Widdows. He is a six-time Le Mans winner, Can-Am champion, the runner-up in the 1969 and 1970 Formula 1 World Championships for Brabham and Ferrari, twice World Endurance champion and Paris-Dakar rally winner. Jacky Ickx is a soulful, philosophical and enigmatic character who thinks deeply about his 32 seasons at the top of a dangerous sport.
- Rob Widdows
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Jacky Ickx. Jacques Ickx was an influential journalist who wrote Free Men are Free to Risk Their Lives in defence of motor sport when the Pope and others were calling for it to be banned. But the Ickx name is now better known for his son – six-time Le Mans winner Jacky. Early racing career. Apparently bored by a first visit to the Belgian GP ...
Feb 10, 2020 · In 1976, with teammate Gijs van Lennep, Ickx scored the first win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for a turbocharged engine. It was in the Porsche 936, a car with many elements borrowed from the 917 and powered by a 2.1-liter turbo flat 6 engine taken from the 1974 Carrera RSR Turbo. Jacky Ickx: "When you drive a Porsche 936, 956 or 962, you have a ...
Belgian racing legend Jacky Ickx demonstrates a Ferrari 312B. Photo by: Sam Bloxham / LAT Images. When listing Ickx’s achievements, his tally of six wins in the 24 Hours of Le Mans will always ...
Jacky Ickx first became acquainted with Chopard Co-President Karl-Friedrich Scheufele when the pair drove together in the 1989 1000 Miglia. Fast forward 34 years and that original meeting has developed into the firmest of friendships, with the effortlessly elegant Jacky Ickx having become very much a part of the Chopard family.
Jacky completed a remarkable hat-trick of Le Mans wins between 1975 and 1977, and won a string of rounds of the World Championship of Makes in the Martini Porsche partnered by Jochen Mass. In 1979 Ickx was back in the Grand Prix world, replacing the injured Depailler at Ligier, but sadly it was not a successful return, the finesse of his ...
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