元Ｆ１ドライバーのジャブイーユ氏が死去　８０歳

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】フォーミュラワン（Ｆ１、Ｆ１世界選手権）でルノーに初勝利をもたらしたフランス人ドライバー、ジャンピエール・ジャブイーユ氏が死去したと、家族が２日にＡＦＰの取材で明らかにした。８０歳だった。（写真は、１９７９年のフランスＧＰで優勝を果たした際のジャブイーユ氏〈中央〉）
　ジャブイーユ氏は現役時代、１９７５年から１９８０年にかけてＦ１で４９戦に出走し、ルノー時代の１９７９年にフランスＧＰで初優勝すると、翌年のオーストリアＧＰでも勝利を飾った。ポールポジションは６回を数えた。
　また、ルマン２４時間耐久レースにも参戦し、４度にわたって３位を記録した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/02/03-23:28）

Formula One driver Jean-Pierre Jabouille, who won the Renault team's first ever grand prix in the 1970s, has died aged 80, his family told AFP on Thursday.
French driver Jabouille competed in 49 F1 races between 1975 and 1980, winning his home French Grand Prix in 1979 and the Austrian Grand Prix the following season.
The native of Paris also finished third in the Le Mans 24 Hour race on four occasions.
He acted as the Ligier team's technical director before heading Peugeot Sport and establishing his own endurance team, Jabouille-Bouresche Racing.
Equipped with a degree in engineering he was at the heart of the then new but fragile turbo-charged engines, equally at home on the track as in the garage.
His 1979 debut win, from pole, was the first for a turbo-powered car, and it proved a sweet moment as he failed to finish no fewer than 37 races.
As well as his two wins he also claimed six pole positions.
Refecting on his win at the Dijon circuit in 1979 he told AFP in 2018: I was thinking of only finishing the race. I knew we had a chance if we could get to the end.
It was a very proud moment because it's hard to win in F1. A relief also because I was often in the lead and each time, we had a reliability issue.
His F1 career hit a wall - literally - when in Canada in 1980 his Renault's suspension packed up with the resulting crash leaving him with a broken leg.