🇧🇪 Jacky Ickx

Jacky Ickx was an established professional racing driver who spent 13 seasons in Formula 1 from 1967 to 1979, contesting 116 Grands Prix for Ferrari and other teams. His single-seater career produced eight wins and 25 podium finishes across a field that mixed amateurs, semi-professionals and graded professionals in the same championship.[1]

Ickx finished runner-up in the Formula 1 World Championship twice, in 1969 and 1970. His eight Grand Prix victories came in the era before he retired from single-seater racing at the end of 1979, when he took 13th place in the season standings. He raced regularly against multiple Formula 1 champions; his head-to-head record against the 1967 champion Denny Hulme was closely matched, as was his record against the two-time champion Graham Hill. Against the three-time champion Jackie Stewart, he finished ahead of him nine times across their careers.[2]

Ickx drove for Ferrari in 56 of his Formula 1 starts, racing alongside the full breadth of drivers the team fielded across the 1970s. His Wikipedia background records that his career extended beyond single-seaters into endurance racing, where he won six times at Le Mans and twice won the World Endurance Championship with Porsche, and into rallying, where he won the Paris-Dakar Rally in 1983.