Patrick Tambay

Patrick Tambay (born the June 25th 1949 with Paris, France) is an automobile old driver French. He controlled in Formule 1 of 1977 with 1986 and gained two Grands Prix.

Biography

The career in automobile sport of Patrick Tambay begins in 1972 by its victory in the Stealing Elf. This success offers the necessary financing to him to dispute in 1973 the championship of Formule Renault which it finishes in second position. In 1974, it reaches the championship of Europe of Formule 2 and takes down the following year a new title of vice-champion. Very waited in 1976 for its third season in the discipline, it marks a downtime in its progression while finishing only in the third final place.

Its horizon being stopped in Europe, it is exiled in North America to dispute there the challenge Edge-Am in 1977. At the wheel of a car engaged by Carl Haas and Jim Hall, Tambay dominates the championship and takes down the title easily. These beautiful performances in parallel enable him to during the year carry out its beginnings in championship of the world of Formule 1. After an attempt missed qualifying itself on a Surtees with the GP of France, it takes its first departure in F1 at the time of the Grand Prix of Great Britain on modest a Ensign engaged by Teddy Yip, a businessman of HongKong. This first race shows an abandonment, but it succeeds in the small exploit thereafter to return in the points to three recoveries. Then regarded as a great hope of Formula 1, it is recruited by the powerful stable McLaren to replace Jochen Mass and in order to shoulder James Hunt, the world champion 1976. What resembled a beautiful opportunity will prove to be a gift poisoned for Tambay insofar as its arrival at McLaren corresponds to the brutal decline of the British stable. After one year 1978 whole just correct (8 points and a fourth place with the GP of Sweden), it knows the worst in 1979, with any marked point, of multiple abandonments and even the infamy of two not-qualifications. Its passably chipped image, it does not find a wheel in F1 for the season 1980 and must be exiled once again in the championship Edge-Am, within the team of Carl Haas. As in 1977, it gains the title. Tambay finds F1 in 1981, initially on a Theodore (the stable of Teddy Yip) with which it takes down the point of the sixth place to Beach Length, then as from the semi-season at Ligier to replace Jean-Pierre Jabouille, badly given of its accident which has occurred at the end of the former season.

Again without wheel at the beginning of the season 1982, it is called in spring by the Scuderia Ferrari to replace his friend Gilles Villeneuve, tragically deceased during the tests of the GP of Belgium. As of its arrival at Ferrari, Tambay is affirmed like an invaluable recruit and registered important points in the optics of the championship of the world of the manufacturers. During the tests of the GP of Germany, the first pilot Ferrari, Didier Pironi, then at the head of the championship of the world, are victim of a serious accident which puts a term at its career. Carrying on its only shoulders all the hopes of Scuderia, Tambay gains the following day its first success Formulates 1 in a heavy environment of them. With a podium at the end of the season in Monza, it ensures Ferrari the world title of the manufacturers.

Preserved by Ferrari for the season 1983, Patrick Tambay carries out a pretty beginning of the season which makes of him a candidate to the world title. It gains in particular a victory with the GP of San Marino with Imola for the greatest joy of the tifosi , which are completely acquired with its cause while at the same time it is essential at the expense of the Italian pilot Riccardo Patrese. In spite of some places of honor, the continuation of its season is more delicate and it is made outdistance with the championship, that it finishes finally in fourth place. At the end of the year, Ferrari decides to replace it by the great Italian hope Michele Alboreto and it finds refuge at Renault. Taking into account the potential posted by Renault at the time of the former seasons, it can nourish beautiful ambitions, but still shaken by the loss of the world titles in 1983, the French stable plunges in the crisis, and neither him nor its fellow-member Derek Warwick manage to obtain better only some places of honor.

At the end of 1985, the Renault stable closes its doors, and Tambay is recruited by the assembled team the former season by Carl Haas (who was his Edge-Am employer) in partnership with Lola. In spite of the official support of Ford, the adventure turns to the fiasco and Tambay (of which the season moreover is disturbed by an accident with the GP of Canada which causes a fracture of the foot to him) must be satisfied with a fifth place in Austria like better result. At the end of the year, it leaves F1 and puts a term at its sporting career. It takes again the wheel in 1989 within the framework of the championship of the world of the sport-prototypes (4th with the 24 hours of Mans on a Jaguar official of the TWR). Then it gives up the circuits to be reconverted into the rally-raids, while taking part in particular on several occasions in Paris-Dakar throughout annés the 1990.

Transitory shareholder of the stable Larrousse in 1994, Patrick Tambay left his sporting retirement in 2005 to take part the championship proof Grand Prix Masters, a competition of single-seaters reserved for old glories of F1.

He is assistant of the Mayor of the Cannet and general adviser of Apes-Maritime the, member of the group UMP.

Highly skilled Kartman, his/her son Adrien Tambay (born in 1991) carries out in 2007 its beginnings in automobile sport within the framework of the championship of Germany of Formule BMW.

Statistics in F1

114 disputed GP
2 victories
11 podiums
103 points
5 pole positions
2 better turns in race

Sporting consultant

He reconverted himself into the comments of the Grand Prix on television on the Five in 1991, on Satellite Canal at the end of the Années 1990 and on the Team TV.

He is consulting today for the radio on RMC Info within the Dream TEAM RMC for the Grands Prix of F1 with the Journaliste S Julien Fébreau and Alexandre Delpérier.

External bonds

Patrick Tambay on F1-legend
Page on Patrick Tambay

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