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Jacques Bernard "Jacky" Ickx (born 1 January 1945) is a Belgian former racing driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans six times (second-highest of all time) and achieved eight wins and 25 podium finishes in Formula One.
He greatly contributed to several World Championships for Makes and World Sports Car championships: Ford (1968), Ferrari (1972), Porsche (1976–1977) and (1982–1985) by his 37 major World Sports Car wins.
He also won the Can-Am Championship in 1979 and the 1983 Paris–Dakar Rally.
Ickx twice finished as championship runner-up in Formula One, in the consecutive years of 1969 and 1970.
He won the majority of his races for Scuderia Ferrari, for which he was the team's leading driver for several seasons in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Born on 1 January 1945 in Brussels, Ickx was introduced to motorsports when he was taken by his father, motoring journalist Jacques Ickx, to races which he covered.
Despite this family background, Ickx had limited interest in the sport until his father bought him a 50 cc Zündapp motorcycle.
He began to compete in motorcycle trials and demonstrated impressive talent when he defeated future motocross world champion Roger De Coster in the Belgian 50 cc trials national championship.
Soon afterwards, Ickx won 8 of 13 races at the first season and the European 50 cc trials title.
He took another two titles before he moved to racing a Lotus Cortina in touring car racing, taking his national saloon car championship in 1965, as well as winning the Spa 24 Hours race in 1966 driving a BMW 2000TI.
He also competed in sports car races where he had already significant experience from taking part in the 1000 km races at the Nürburgring.
Ickx entered his first Grand Prix at the Nürburgring in 1966, driving a Matra MS5-Cosworth one-litre Formula Two (F2) car, entered by Ken Tyrrell.
However, a first lap collision with John Taylor caused both cars to retire and Taylor later died as a result of burns received in the accident.
In 1967, Ickx again drove at the Nurburgring, with an F2 Matra MS7-Cosworth 1.
6-litre, also entered by Tyrrell.
Despite the greater power of the Formula One cars, only two drivers qualified with a faster time than Ickx: Denny Hulme and Jim Clark.
As Ickx was racing in the separate F2 class, he started the race behind all of the Formula One cars, but within four laps of the 28 km circuit he was up to fifth place, having overtaken 12 Formula One cars.
He was forced to retire after 12 laps with a broken front suspension, but set the fastest lap of the F2 runners.
At Monza in 1967, he made his Formula One debut in a Cooper T81B-Maserati, finishing sixth, despite suffering a puncture on the last lap.
He also drove for Cooper in the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen but retired on lap 45 with overheating.
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