Alan Jones is a racing driver from Australia who last raced in Formula 1 for Lola. Jones is a one-time champion (1980), with 12 wins and 24 podiums from 117 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,943 ranks Jones 353th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 1986-10-26 | Adelaide Street Circuit | DNF | −119 |
| 1986-10-12 | Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez | DNF | −82 |
| 1986-09-21 | Autódromo do Estoril | DNF | −128 |
| 1986-09-07 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | P6 | +83 |
| 1986-08-17 | Red Bull Ring | P4 | +109 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | ▸Formula 1 | Lola | 16 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 4 | P12 | −892 | 5,086 |
| 1985 | ▸Formula 1 | Lola | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | P21 | −622 | 5,978 |
| 1983 | ▸Formula 1 | Arrows | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P21 | −65 | 6,600 |
| 1981 | ▸Formula 1 | Williams | 15 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 46 | P3 | +11 | 6,665 |
| 1980 | ▸Formula 1 | Williams | 14 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 71 | P1 | +768 | 6,654 |
| 1979 | ▸Formula 1 | Williams | 15 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 43 | P3 | +578 | 5,886 |
| 1978 | ▸Formula 1 | Williams | 16 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 11 | P11 | −35 | 5,309 |
| 1977 | ▸Formula 1 | Shadow | 14 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 22 | P7 | +167 | 5,344 |
| 1976 | ▸Formula 1 | Surtees | 14 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | P14 | +370 | 5,177 |
| 1975 | ▸Formula 1 | Embassy Hill | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | P17 | +7 | 4,807 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇫🇷 Jacques Laffite | 5,186 | 41 | 21 | 20 | 51% |
| 🇦🇷 Carlos Reutemann | 5,765 | 39 | 15 | 24 | 38% |
| 🇿🇦 Jody Scheckter | 5,599 | 35 | 16 | 19 | 46% |
| 🇺🇸 Mario Andretti | 4,978 | 33 | 14 | 19 | 42% |
| 🇫🇷 Jean-Pierre Jarier | 4,248 | 33 | 27 | 6 | 82% |
| 🇬🇧 John Watson | 5,367 | 32 | 15 | 17 | 47% |
| 🇩🇪 Jochen Mass | 5,075 | 28 | 16 | 12 | 57% |
| 🇧🇷 Nelson Piquet | 5,153 | 25 | 13 | 12 | 52% |
| 🇫🇷 Didier Pironi | 5,270 | 24 | 18 | 6 | 75% |
| 🇨🇭 Clay Regazzoni | 5,253 | 24 | 12 | 12 | 50% |
Alan Jones is a retired Australian Formula One driver who competed across ten seasons from 1975 to 1986, accumulating 117 starts and 12 wins for Lola. He won the 1980 Formula One World Drivers' Championship with Williams, the only season in which he demonstrated clear superiority over his competition; his average finishing position across all classified races was sixth, reflecting a career spent in the upper echelon of a competitive grid but not consistently at its leading edge.[1]
Jones competed regularly against drivers of considerable standing. His head-to-head record against Jacques Laffite was roughly even, finishing ahead in 21 of 41 shared races. Against Carlos Reutemann, a driver rated substantially stronger, Jones was decisively beaten, finishing ahead only 15 times in 39 races. His record against 1980 champion Jody Scheckter was similarly unfavourable at 16 wins in 35 races, as was his showing against Mario Andretti, himself a champion, where he prevailed in 14 of 33 races. Jones finished ahead of Jean-Pierre Jarier in 27 of 33 encounters, marking his most dominant rivalry. His wins over future champions Alain Prost occurred seven times across their careers, though Prost's rating substantially exceeds Jones's own. By the early 1980s, with his championship secured, Jones remained competitive in Formula One's middle ranks but saw his performance decline thereafter; his final season in 1986 yielded no podiums across 16 rounds.[2]