Alan Jones was born in November 2, 1946, in Melbourne, Australia. He was the first formula one world champion to win the championship with the Williams team. Alan was the son of Stan Jones, an Australian driver, and he decided to follow is father's steps. He went to Europe in 1967 to make a name for himself but met little success. It took him six years to get good results in formula three. After racing in formla Antlantic in 1974, he got to formula one the next season with a Hesketh car. After 4 races in formula one his team chose not continue racing but Jones did after replacing Rolf Stommelen on Graham Hill racing team. He had a best finish of fifth place in Hockenheim while in the team.
In 1976 he got a place in John Srtees's team, and brought some good results with it, the best of them being a fourth place in Japan. Next year Sutrees dropped Jones because they did not get allong well. But the Shadow place gave him a place in he team as a replacement driver for Tom Pryce who had been killed in an accident in South Africa. Jones took the opportunity and won at Osterreichring to make his first victory and finally finished 7th in championship.
In 1978 Jones was on the Williams F1 roster on alternate weekends and also he was competing in the Can Am championship
and took nine polls in ten races. Jones missed the Laguna Seca race due to a F1 scheduling conflict. From the nine races Jones competed he won the five. He also competed in the Can Am championship in 1979 with Keke Rosberg. Jones put Williams on the map in 1979. He won four races and finished 3rd in the championship.
In 1980 Jones won five races, but one of them was declared a non-championship race afterwards so only four were officially recorded. He got on he podium ten times during that year and at the end of the season he won the world champion title winning Nelson Piquet by 13 points. He had the chance of repeating this performance in 1981, but in the end he finished the championship in third place 4 points behind Piquet kai 3 points behind Reutemann. He announced his retirement after the season. He competed just for one race with Arrowsin 1983. Two more years later team Haas was created and Jones raced a full season with the team in 1986. But after a series of disappointing rersults he left formula one for good. Alan Jones competed in 117 races during his career and won 12 of them, with 24 podium finishes. He gathered a total of 199 points, set the fastest lap 13 times and gained 6 pole positions.
