Record ID:
36051344 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 82016275
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19461102
Associated with:
  • Australia
Occupations:
  • Automobile racing drivers
Used for:
  • Jones, Alan, 1946 (Nov. 2)-
Notes:
  • His Driving ambition, 1981 t.p. (Alan Jones) p. 13 (Alan Stanley Jones, b. 11/2/46)
  • Alan Jones don't ask for permission, beg for forgiveness, 2015 CIP(This autobiography about Alan Jones reveals both the highs of winning a race - and a Championship - and the lows of motor racing through the thoughts, feelings and words of one of its Champions. Alan is a courageous man whose heart ticks over like a Formula One racecar. Racing is his way of life and the language he speaks when communicating with others. He is a proud champion, father and role model whom Australia adores)
  • Wikipedia viewed December 9, 2015 (Alan Stanley Jones[2] MBE (born 2 November 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former Formula One driver. He was the first driver to win a Formula One World Championship with the Williams team, becoming the 1980 World Drivers' Champion and the second Australian to do so following triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham. He competed in a total of 117 Grands Prix, winning 12 and achieving 24 podium finishes. In 1978 Jones won the Can-Am championship driving a Lola. Jones is also the last Australian driver to win the Australian Grand Prix, winning the 1980 event at Calder Park Raceway, having lapped the field consisting mostly of Formula 5000 cars while he was driving his Formula One Championship winning Williams FW07B) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Jones_(racing_driver)
Local system number:
  • 000001057427
  • abv02869222
  • (AuCNL)418841
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng AKIN:NBD rda
Authentication code:
  • kin anuc