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F1 race winner Jean-Pierre Jabouille passes away
Article To news overview © XPBimages The first driver to take a grand prix victory with a turbocharged engine, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, has passed away at the age of 80. A Formula 2 Championship winner, he was one of the drivers responsible for leading Renault's F1 breakthrough, and Jabouille took a historic first victory for the team at their home race in 1979 in Dijon, France. In a time of poor reliability for Renault, he defeated legendary racers Gilles Villeneuve, teammate Rene Arnoux and Alan Jones in this iconic event. It was the first victory of what would become a turbocharged era for Formula 1. He would take just one more victory, at the 1980 Austrian Grand Prix, again defeating...
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