Biography
Jo Schlesser was born on 18 May 1928 in Liouville, France. He began racing in 1952 by rallying a Panhard, finished second in the 1957 Rome-Liège-Rome Rally in a Mercedes, and took second overall at Rouen in 1960. From 1964 he competed in the new one-litre Formula Two, and in 1966 he joined the works Matra Formula Two team.
He started three Formula One races and scored no championship points. In 1966 and 1967 he entered the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring in a Formula Two specification Matra. In 1966 he came tenth overall and third in the Formula Two class, while in 1967 he retired after two laps with clutch trouble. In 1968 he drove the Honda RA302 at the French Grand Prix in Rouen, his home race, and was killed in a crash after two laps. Honda withdrew from Formula One at the end of that season. Ligier models were given type names beginning with JS in his memory, and his nephew Jean-Louis Schlesser also raced in Formula One.
Source: Wikipedia, “Jo Schlesser”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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