René Arnoux
René Alexandre Arnoux (born 4 July 1948) is a French former racing driver who competed in 12 Formula One seasons (1978 to 1989). He participated in 165 World Championship Grands Prix (149 starts) winning seven of them, achieving 22 podium finishes and scoring 181 career points. His best finish in the World Drivers' Championship was third in 1983 for Ferrari. In 1977, Arnoux won the European Formula Two Championship. In 2006 he raced in the inaugural season of the Grand Prix Masters series for retired F1 drivers.
Early career
Arnoux's career began in Formule Renault and he first moved into Formula Two in 1974 with Elf, taking fourth place on his debut at Nogaro. In 1975 he moved to Formule Super Renault and won the title. For 1976, Arnoux moved back to Formula Two with an Elf-sponsored, works Martini-Renault, winning three races and narrowly losing the title to Jean-Pierre Jabouille. However, he won the 1977 European Championship, again driving a Martini-Renault. Arnoux won races at Silverstone, Hockenheim, Pau and Nogaro, which along with second places at Enna-Pergusa and Estoril saw him finish 12 points clear of American Eddie Cheever who was driving for Ron Dennis' Project Four Racing, and 14 points clear of team mate Didier Pironi.
Podcasts:
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by Ron Warren
Warrior Song
by: Ron WarrenHey Ya, Warrior
In the island sun
traded in your coup stick
for fatigues and gun
Hey Ya, Warrior:
How do you earn your feather now?
How do you earn your feather now?
Hey Ya, Warrior
In a chopper seat
Can't even trust
the little kids you meet
Hey Ya, Warrior:
How do you earn your feather now?
How do you earn your feather now?
Mothers cry
for children lost
Mother cries
when She looks across
a land She filled with 500 nations
What will fill the eyes
of the seventh generation?
Way ya hey ya way ya ho
way ya hey ya hey ya
way ya hey ya...
Hey ya ho
Hey ya, Warrior
In a distant land
tradin' blood for oil
dyin' in the sand
Hey ya, Warrior:
How do you earn your feather now?
How do you earn your feather now?
Children cry
for mother's lost
Mother cries
when She looks across
a land She filled with 500 nations
What will fill the eyes
of the seventh generation?
Way ya hey ya way ya ho
way ya hey ya hey ya
way ya hey ya...
Hey ya ho
Hey Ya, Warrior
Come on home tonight
Mother and the People
need your strength and light.
Hey Ya, Warrior
earn your feather
here and now
Come home
and earn your feather
here and now...
Mothers cry
for children lost
Mother cries
when She looks across
a land She filled with 500 nations
What will fill the eyes