JACKY ICKX
The sun of a well-known Belgian motor journalist had started his career with motor-cycle trials. Then he had been discovered by Ken Tyrrell for Formul 3. In a Matra Ford of Team Tyrrell Ickx became the first ever European Formula 2 champion. In the Formula 2 round of the 1967 German Grand Prix at the Nuerburgring he made the decisive point in his career, when driving his Matra F2 car into the top of the Formula 1 field. Later Ickx became a great star at Ferrari driving both Formula 1 and sportscars for the Maranello team. Open confrontation broke between him and the Italians over the Ferrari 312B3 Grand Prix car of 1973, making Ickx leave Ferrari at mid-season. The good days of his Grand Prix career became rare and the Belgian concentrated himself more and more on sportscar and touring car racing.
The corpus
delicti making Ickx and Ferrari getting devorced was the
312B3 Grand Prix car of 1973
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