Oscar Piastri pays tribute to Australia’s 1980 F1 champion Alan Jones after death at 80
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Alan Jones, Australia’s 1980 Formula One world champion with Williams, died aged 80 on 5 November 2026 after a short illness, having won twelve grands prix and twenty-four podiums and delivered Williams its first drivers’ title; he remains the last Australian to win the Australian Grand Prix at Calder Park in 1980. From 1975–1981, 1983 and 1985–1986 he also raced for Hesketh, Hill, Surtees, Shadow, Arrows and Haas-Lola. Speaking at Interlagos before the Brazilian Grand Prix, McLaren’s Oscar Piastri mourned him and recalled driving Jones’s title-winning Williams.
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