Alesi, Jean (F)
BIOGRAPHY

b 11/6/1964

Resident:             Nyon/CH
Height:               1,70 m
Weight:               70 kg
Marital status:       married to Laurence
Children:             Charlotte, 10.4.94
Learned profession:   sheet-metal worker
Sports:               skiing, golf, tennis,
                      water-skiing
Favourite drink:      Vichy Menthe
Start racing career:  1981/82 in go-karts
First racing car:     Renault 5
First success:        Renault 5 Turbo Cup
                      1983 Nogaro


Most memorable experience:
"Leading the 1990 US GP at Phoenix - then
repassing Ayrton Senna after he had
overtaken me."


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COMPETITION HISTORY

1964 - Born in Avignon, of Sicilian descent
1983 - Renault 5 Turbo Cup, 7th, 1 win
       (Nogaro)
1984 - Formula Renault, 10th
1985 - Formula Renault, 5th
1986 - Finished 2nd in French F3, with two
       wins (Albi, Bugatti), in privately
       enterred Dallara
1987 - Won French F3 with Oreca, after
       switching from Martini chassis
       replaced with Dallara 387, allowing
       6 consecutive wins. 2nd in Monaco
       F3 race.
1988 - F3000 with Oreca, 10th. 2nd at Pau
1989 - Won F3000 with Eddie Jordan, 3 wins
       (Pau, Birmingham, Spa). 4th on F1 
       debut with Tyrrell in France.
       8 races (Tyrrell), 8 points, 9th.
1990 - 16 races (Tyrrell). 13 points, 9th.
1991 - 16 races (Ferrari). 21 points, 7th
1992 - 16 races (Ferrari). 18 points, 7th
1993 - 16 races (Ferrari). 16 points, 6th
1994 - 14 races (Ferrari). 24 points, 5th.
1995 - 1 race (Ferrari), 4 points.
       3rd Brazil

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ALESI Jean (F), Biography 1995

Now in his fifth season with Ferrari, Jean Alesi's maiden Grand Prix victory is long overdue.

Alesi began to build his reputation for bravery and skilful car control when he was the revelation of the 1989 Formula 1 season,
bursting onto the Grand Prix scene at Paul Ricard, where he ran his Tyrrell as high as second, and finished fourth on his Grand
Prix debut. His gritty performances the following season for Tyrrell made Jean hot property, and he was much in demand
before beginning his longterm relationship with Ferrari at the start of 1991. He again partners Gerhard Berger in 1995 as
Ferrari continues its determined progress towards becoming a Championship winning team again.

Motorsports is in the blood of the Alesi family. Jean's father was a rally driver during the period 1964-75 and Jean, who is of
Sicilian parentage, himself began to race karts at the age of 16. Alesi won two French regional titles and then, as soon as he
was old enough for a driving licence, he joined the cut and thrust of one of his country's favourite race series, the Renault 5
Cup. Jean learned quickly, winning a race at Nogaro.

Electing to move immediately into single-seaters, Alesi competed in Formule Renault in 1984-85, renewing a rivalry with Eric
Bernard which dates back to their karting days. While Bernard won the championship, Alesi's best result was a second place.

It was in 1986 that Jean sprung to prominence. The first to run a Dallara in the French Formula 3 Championship, Alesi split the
ORECA Martini cars of Yannick Dalmas and Michel Trolle in the series, winning races with his privately entered car at Le
Mans and Albi. ORECA's Hugues de Chaunac was impressed, and recruited Alesi to lead his team the following year. Jean
repaid his faith by taking seven wins on his way to becoming French Formula 3 Champion. He was also a close second in the
high-profile Monaco Formula 3 event.

This success was his passport into Marlboro's Formula 3000 line-up for 1988. ORECA started out with March chassis, but
these were exchanged for Reynards before the third round of the FIA championship at Pau, where Alesi finished second. The
rest of the season was disappointing and Jean was only tenth in the series.

Alesi was determined to win the Formula 3000 International title in 1989 and moved to England, to join Eddie Jordan Racing.
Always a front-runner, he scored his first win in the tough street race in Pau. He followed up with another victory on the streets
of Birmingham, and then won again at Spa-Francorchamps. To clinch the title, he could afford merely to cruise into sixth place
at Le Mans-Bugatti.

Alesi's Grand Prix career had already been launched by that amazing debut at Paul Ricard. Jean was not overawed by his
arrival on the Formula 1 scene, and went on to score a fifth place at Monza and a fourth at Jerez. Not surprisingly, the
Frenchman was retained by the Tyrrell team for 1990. In the first Grand Prix of the season, at Phoenix, Alesi led for 33 laps,
and after a famous battle with Ayrton Senna, eventually finished second to the Brazilian. Another second-place finish followed
at Monaco, but Alesi failed to repeat these results in the second half of the year, his V8 Cosworth outclassed by rival engines.

In the course of the 1990 season, Jean fulfilled every racing driver's dream when he signed to race for Scuderia Ferrari in
1991. Although Ferrari did not enjoy a successful year, Jean achieved third-place finishes in Monaco, Germany and Portugal.
He again drove for Ferrari in 1992 and was more than a match for his more experienced team mate, Ivan Capelli, with the
team's new F92A cars. His 1992 season began with non-finishes at Kyalami and Mexico City, but he followed up with points
in Sao Paulo and Barcelona, and achieved the second podium finish of his season in Montreal. Ferrari struggled in 1992 with
untypical reliability problems, but Alesi scored points each time he finished.

A similar pattern emerged in the 1993 season as Alesi, now partnered by Gerhard Berger, strove to achieve results with the
latest V12 Ferrari, an interim car pending the arrival of an all-new model in 1994. Prior to the Monaco Grand Prix, Jean had
finished only one race in 1993, when he was a delayed eighth in Brazil. On the streets of Monte Carlo, Alesi then produced a
real boost for the Ferrari team by finishing a solid and highly competitive third. In both Canada and France, however, his races
were again cut short by mechanical problems, and then his Ferrari lacked pace as he finished ninth in Britain.

In Germany, the red cars again performed strongly, and Alesi featured well before finishing a delayed seventh. He was again
racing solidly in the points in Hungary when he crashed after a collision with Christian Fittipaldi's Minardi. After qualifying in
fourth place, and running strongly at the start, Jean's car let him down at Spa and he was an early retirement.

However, the return to form by Ferrari was emphasized at Monza, where Alesi qualified in third position, and thrilled the Italian
fans by finishing second. At Estoril, Jean produced an even better performance, after driving around the outside of his rivals in
the first corner to take the lead, from fifth on the grid. His Ferrari stayed in front of the Portuguese Grand Prix going into the
tyre stops, and ultimately finished fourth.

Disappointment followed in Japan, where Alesi was among the early retirements. But his mixed season ended on a very
positive note in Australia where, after a race-long battle with his team mate, Jean finished his 1993 campaign with a solid finish
in fourth position.

ÿ In 1994, after a podium finish at the first GP at Brazil, a severe testing accident put him out of racing for two events. He
returned in Monaco, scoring points immediately with fifth place. He followed that with points (fourth) in Spain, and was back
on the podium again with third place in Canada and at Silverstone, where Schumacher's subsequent disqualification moved him
up to second. His season went downhill with a string of five retirements, the most disappointing being at Monza where he took
pole position and led from both starts before his gearbox failed at a pit stop.

Japan saw him drive brilliantly in the appalling weather, fighting a stirring battle with Nigel Mansell to finish third in aggregate
and his 1994 season ended in the points again in Adelaide.

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