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Also known as Alan Stanley Jones

Australian racing driver and journalist (born 1946)

Person · Open Library

Works
162

Top works

  • Law and economics v. a democratic society
  • Discomania
  • High Voltage
  • Adventures of Faerie Folk
  • From Hell to Heaven

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1931-09-12
Active to
2013-04-26

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,135
Total plays
9,476

Tags

eurodance90sdanceelectronicItalodance

Alan Jones is a Dance project, that was created by Franco Falanga, L. Rosev, and Benito Neri. The project appeared in the early 90s with the single "Eye Without A Face". The follow up were "Flesh For Fantasy" and "Letter From My Heart". From 1993 to 1995, Alan Jones released the singles "Can You Feel The Love Tonight", "Heaven For Everyone" and "Wonderful Life". Alan Jones was a movie actor in musical movies in the 30's and 40's of the 20th century and the father of Jack Jones, an American sin

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,438x

  2. MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

    · 2013 · cited 34,826x

  3. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,148x

  4. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

    · 2003 · cited 21,263x

  5. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,854x

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Key facts

Born
Alan Stanley Jones , ( 1946-11-02 ) 2 November 1946 (age 79) , Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
Spouses
Beverley ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1969 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1995 ) ​ Amanda Butler-Davis ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2002 ) ​
Children
4, including Christian
Parent
Stan Jones (father)
Nationality
Australian
Active years
1975 – 1981 , 1983 , 1985 – 1986
Teams
Privateer Hesketh , Hill , Surtees , Shadow , Williams , Arrows , Haas Lola
Entries
117 (116 starts)
Championships
1 ( 1980 )
Career points
199 (206)
First entry
1975 Spanish Grand Prix
First win
1977 Austrian Grand Prix
Last win
1981 Caesars Palace Grand Prix
Last entry
1986 Australian Grand Prix

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Encyclopedic overview

Alan Stanley Jones (born 2 November 1946) 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.

Jones was the first driver to win a Formula One World Championship with the Williams team, becoming the 1980 World Drivers' Champion and the second Australian to do so following triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham. He competed in a total of 117 Grands Prix, winning 12 and achieving 24 podium finishes. Jones also won the 1978 Can-Am championship driving a Lola.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alan Jones” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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