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Claire Williams pays tribute to Alan Jones

Source: RacingNews365 · · added 20 hours ago

Former Williams team principal Claire Williams has said Alan Jones left an "indelible mark" on the team's history following his death last week aged 80 after a short illness in Australia. Jones won the 1980 Formula 1 world championship, the first driver to do so for Williams, and raced for the team between 1978 and 1981.

Williams said her father, Sir Frank Williams, and Sir Patrick Head admired Jones's personality, and that they shared a mindset of working hard and striving to win. She said she had built a good relationship with him when she was team principal and that he had been supportive of her.

Williams described Jones as another racing icon no longer with us and offered her thoughts to his family and friends.

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