“It wasn’t done before him and I doubt very much indeed it’ll be done
after him.”
The sport he entered at the British Grand Prix at Aintree in July 1955 was
very different, a high octane championship only five years old played out on
mostly ramshackle tracks and, by any standards, extremely dangerous.
Competitive to the end, Sir Jack was running third 15 years later when a blown
engine forced him to retire from his 126th and final Formula One race in
Mexico.
Although a household name in Australia as the country’s first Formula One
world champion, Sir Jack’s natural reserve meant he never became the
stereotypical sporting hero.
“Jack was a man of few words, he certainly wasn’t a chatterbox that’s for
sure, ” said Jones.
“When he spoke you listened. A very down to earth man, a very genuine
man, a very generous man.”
Source: APTN and Reuters