🇫🇷 Jean-Pierre Jarier

Jean-Pierre Jarier was an established professional racing driver who competed in Formula 1 from 1971 to 1983, primarily for Ligier, and later in the FIA GT Championship as a shared-car endurance driver from 1997 to 2002 with Team ART. Across 162 starts in single-seater and endurance racing, he took three podiums and finished 17th in the 1983 Formula 1 championship standings, his final season in the series.[1]

Jarier's Formula 1 career spanned thirteen seasons with 138 starts, placing him among the grid regulars of that era. He raced against a field that included multiple world champions; he finished ahead of Nelson Piquet, who won three titles, on four occasions, and ahead of Alain Prost, a four-time champion, twice. His most frequent competitors were John Watson and Jacques Laffite, both established professionals with comparable career longevity, and he remained closely matched against both across their overlapping years. His main team, Shadow, fielded him for 31 of his starts and won a single race across its entire history, with Riccardo Patrese as its strongest driver. After a thirteen-year absence from racing, Jarier returned to competition in 1997 for a five-season stint in endurance racing, taking 24 starts in the FIA GT Championship.[2]