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Jody Scheckter is a former racing driver who competed in 114 races. His career statistics include 10 wins, 3 pole positions, and 33 podium finishes, accumulating 255 points. He has six children.
Scheckter is also an author with three recorded works. These include titles related to the Mercedes-Benz W123 and the Roy Hesketh Circuit Heritage, as well as a work titled Jody. He was born on January 29, 1950.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Mercedes-Benz W123
- Roy Hesketh Circuit Heritage
- Jody
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,580x
- Pfam: the protein families database
· 2013 · cited 5,565x
- Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
· 2021 · cited 3,155x
- Patterns of somatic mutation in human cancer genomes
· 2007 · cited 2,563x
- Genome-Wide Association Analysis Identifies Loci for Type 2 Diabetes and Triglyceride Levels
· 2007 · cited 2,289x
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Key facts
- Born
- Jody David Scheckter , ( 1950-01-29 ) 29 January 1950 (age 76) , East London , Eastern Cape, Union of South Africa
- Spouses
- Pamela Bailey Clare Fawkes
- Children
- 6, including Toby and Tomas
- Relatives
- Ian Scheckter (brother)
- Nationality
- South African
- Active years
- 1972 – 1980
- Teams
- McLaren , Tyrrell , Wolf , Ferrari
- Entries
- 113 (112 starts)
- Championships
- 1 ( 1979 )
- Career points
- 246 (255)
- First entry
- 1972 United States Grand Prix
- First win
- 1974 Swedish Grand Prix
- Last win
- 1979 Italian Grand Prix
- Last entry
- 1980 United States Grand Prix
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Jody David Scheckter (/ˈʃɛktər/; born 29 January 1950) is a South African former racing driver and businessman who competed in Formula One from 1972 to 1980. Scheckter won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1979 with Ferrari, and remains the only African driver to have won a Formula One Grand Prix or the World Drivers' Championship; he won 10 Grands Prix across nine seasons.
Born and raised in East London, Cape Province, Scheckter rapidly ascended through the ranks of motor racing upon moving to the United Kingdom in 1971. His Formula One debut came the following year at the United States Grand Prix, driving for McLaren, who he had raced for that year in British and European Formula Two. Amongst winning the SCCA Continental Championship in Formula 5000, Scheckter entered a further five Grands Prix in 1973 with McLaren. Scheckter earned a full-time drive with Tyrrell the following season, taking his maiden win at the Swedish Grand Prix and finishing third in the championship. Scheckter won his home Grand Prix in South Africa in 1975 and placed third in the standings again in 1976, driving the six-wheeled P34; he remains the only driver to win a Grand Prix on six wheels.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jody Scheckter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.