马克·休斯：艾伦·琼斯令对手胆寒，是威廉姆斯的完美人选
艾伦·琼斯去世，享年80岁。他以强悍、心理坚韧和极具侵略性的轮对轮驾驶风格，成为弗兰克·威廉姆斯和帕特里克·海德打造威廉姆斯车队的理想车手，并共同赢得1980年车手和车队世界冠军。
强壮如牛，心理素质比任何坐进赛车的人都要坚韧，是最具侵略性的轮对轮车手，把对手吓得魂飞魄散。
难怪艾伦·琼斯——他已去世，享年80岁——会成为弗兰克·威廉姆斯和帕特里克·海德心目中完美车手的原型，两人携手让威廉姆斯车队从无到有地崭露头角。他们一起赢得1980年车手和车队世界冠军，正式确立了这一地位。
1970年，他怀揣50英镑从澳大利亚来到英国参加F3时，并没有被特别看好会成为世界冠军。
但他在动力不足的方程式赛车中是个壮实的家伙，却仍在英国F3和Formula Atlantic中连续几个赛季位居前列。
他第一次获得F1机会是在1975年，加入了格雷厄姆·希尔的团队，随后又为哈里·斯蒂勒的私人赫斯基思车队效力。
他的表现足以让约翰·苏尔特斯在76赛季签下他。在非锦标赛的冠军赛上，他领跑并与詹姆斯·亨特的迈凯伦赛车缠斗，预示了他后来的状态，但那个赛季并不高调，琼斯和苏尔特斯这两个固执的人对各自的处境都不满意，因此相处得并不融洽。赛季结束后琼斯离开了，他宁愿退出F1也不愿留在那种环境中。
这使得他在77赛季开始四场比赛后有空档，在汤姆·普赖斯于南非大奖赛致命事故后，他作为临时替补加入了影子车队。
影子DN8赛车有点超重，但平衡性足够好，让琼斯的天赋得以显现。他在雨中的奥地利大奖赛上获胜，多少有些出人意料，但整个赛季他都很快、稳定且富有战斗力。
弗兰克·威廉姆斯签下他加入自己1978年的单赛车车队，理由是“一个能稳定为我们拿分的人，但我们很快意识到，我们碰上的东西比那要好得多”。
那一年有好几场让巨头胆寒的表现，那是1979年下半年一连串胜利的前奏。从那时起，琼斯和威廉姆斯合在一起就是F1的黄金标准，贯穿他们1980年的夺冠赛季，甚至在被可靠性问题困扰的1981年也是如此。琼斯和地面效应威廉姆斯FW07是天作之合。
在1981赛季收官战拉斯维加斯大奖赛上碾压对手后，他第一次退役。他被说服在1985-86赛季全职回归，但纽曼-哈斯项目未能兑现其潜力，琼斯随后第二次退役。
表面上礼貌而端正，但头盔一戴上，琼斯就让对手胆寒。
他谁也不怕，非常擅长识别自己需要赛车提供什么才能跑得更快，然后就会把那辆车开到轮子都快飞了。正因如此，他在威廉姆斯车队被奉若神明，即便在他离开之后，车队也很大程度上继承了他的性格。
英文原文
Strong like an ox, psychologically more airtight than anyone who's ever climbed into a race car, and the most aggressive wheel-to-wheel racer who scared the living daylights out of his rivals.
Little wonder Alan Jones - who has died, aged 80 - became an archetype of the perfect racing driver for Frank Williams and Patrick Head as they jointly put the Williams team on the map out of nowhere. It was a status they formalised by winning the 1980 drivers' and constructors' world titles together.
He wasn't particularly rated as an obvious world champion when he come over to the UK from Australia with £50 in his back pocket, to race in F3 in 1970.
But he was a hefty guy in an under-powered formula and still he was a frontrunner for a few seasons in British F3 and Formula Atlantic.
His first F1 chance came in 1975, with Graham Hill's team and a subsequent ride in Harry Stiller's privateer Hesketh.
He showed enough for John Surtees to take him on for the '76 season. At the non-championship Race of Champions he foreshadowed his later form by leading and dicing with James Hunt's McLaren but it was a low-key season and Jones and Surtees, as two hard-headed individuals dissatisfied with their situation, didn't hit it off. Jones left at the end of the season, prepared to walk out of F1 rather than stay in that environment.
Which made him available four races into the '77 season as a short-notice replacement at Shadow after Tom Pryce's fatal accident in the South African Grand Prix.
The Shadow DN8 was a little overweight but well-balanced enough for Jones' talent to become apparent. His victory in the wet Austrian Grand Prix was something of a shock result but he was quick, consistent and combative all year.
Frank Williams signed him for his single-car '78 team on the basis of "someone who could score us points regularly but we quickly realised we'd stumbled onto something rather better than that".
There were several giant-scaring performances that year, the prelude to a whole stream of victories in the latter half of '79. In combination, Jones and Williams were F1's gold standard from there, through their title 1980 season and even in their reliability-blighted '81. Jones and the ground effect Williams FW07 were made for each other.
He retired for the first time after trouncing the opposition in the season-ending '81 Las Vegas Grand Prix. He was persuaded back full time for '85-86 but the Newman Haas project didn't live up to its potential and Jones' second retirement duly followed.
Superficially polite and correct, Jones terrified his rivals when the helmet went on.
He was afraid of no one, was brilliantly adept at identifying what he needed from a car to go faster and he'd then race the wheels off it. For that he was deified at Williams and the team took on much of his character even after he'd left.
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