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Alan Jones (racing driver)

Australian racing driver (born 1946)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Alan Stanley Jones is an Australian former racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One between 1975 and 1986. Jones won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1980 with Williams, and won 12 Grands Prix across ten seasons.

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“Alan Jones (racing driver)” enters the record as australian racing driver (born 1946). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alan, Jones and racing can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1986, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alan, Jones and racing.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1986 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alan Jones (racing driver)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.