The only timing device missing from the Jones Boy’s dash is a grandfather clock! Alan awaits the off in his Lola THL2 Ford at San Marino in 1986.
That weekend AJ was Q21 and DNF overheating after 28 laps in the race won by Alain Prost’s McLaren MP4/2C TAG-Porsche. The Frenchman won four of the 16 rounds and the drivers title by two points from Nigel Mansell’s Williams FW11 Honda, albeit Williams took the constructors championship by a country mile – 45 – points from McLaren. Lola Ford finished eighth.
Jones above during the 1985 AGP weekend in Adelaide where his results were again disappointing, Q19 and DNF with electrical failure after completing on 20 laps in the Lola THL1 Hart. Keke Rosberg won the race in his Williams FW10B Honda. We’ve been there before with these Hart four-cylinder and Ford V6 1.5-turbo F1 machines, see here; https://primotipo.com/2016/10/21/hart-attack/
Jones had far more success in the AGP at Calder, west of Melbourne, in 1980 where he raced his Williams FW07B Ford to a dominant win from Bruno Giacomelli’s wailing V12 Alfa Romeo 179B in a mixed field of GP cars (two) and F5000 machines.
There was a neat bit of symmetry that weekend as Alan joined his father Stan as an AGP winner, Jones senior won the race at Longford aboard a Maserati 250F in 1959. See here; https://primotipo.com/2014/12/26/stan-jones-australian-and-new-zealand-grand-prix-and-gold-star-winner/
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McLarenF1.com, MotorSport Images, Sydney Morning Herald, Getty Images, Giorgio Piola/MotorSport Images
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Plenty for the driver to look at and do in those pre-digital, manual gearbox days! Another August 10, 1986 Hungarian GP weekend shot. Lola THL2 Ford.
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