On January 13 1980, Alan Jones won the first grand prix of his world championship-winning F1 season. Little over 18 months later, he was preparing to announce his retirement. In today's Great Read, Nigel Roebuck examines why Jones called an early end to his F1 career — only to see Keke Rosberg claim the 1982 title with his old team.
Whenever we recall great drivers past, it seems the same names always crop up: Fangio, Moss, Clark and Stewart are staples of the 1950s and '60s, and more recently we think of Lauda, Prost, Senna and Schumacher. But there are others who don't come to mind quite as instantly: Nelson Piquet is one such, and Alan Jones another.
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