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Portrait of Jacky Ickx

Jacky Ickx

(1945) Formula One Driver

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Jacky Ickx is a Formula One driver, best known for Timeless Racer : Machines of a Time Traveling Speed Junkie.

Quick Facts About Jacky Ickx

Born: January 1, 1945
Profession: Formula One Driver
Notable works: Timeless Racer : Machines of a Time Traveling Speed Junkie

About Jacky Ickx

Jacques Bernard Edmon Martin Henri "Jacky" Ickx is a Belgian former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1966 to 1979. Ickx twice finished runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1969 and 1970, and won eight Grands Prix across 14 seasons. In endurance racing, Ickx won two World Endurance Championships with Porsche and is a six-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, as well as a two-time winner of the 12 Hours of Sebring. In rallying, Ickx won the Paris–Dakar Rally in 1983 with Mercedes.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jacky Ickx

In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover.…

Agree

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I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.

Grateful

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The margin between success and drama is fractional.

Drama

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I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.

Believe

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Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

Dramas

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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

Contact

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But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.

Again

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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

Accepted

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To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I…

Back

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Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion…

Attend

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My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

Bike

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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

Apart

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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

Distance

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Before the season begins, I had even damaged some frames, but Ken did not hold it against me and kept all his…

Against

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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from…

Accident

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The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

Alive

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The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With…

Age

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Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most…

Because

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In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

Car

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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite…

Attraction

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And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics,…

Art

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