Alan Jones, the 1980 Formula 1 world champion and the first driver to win the title with Williams, has died at the age of 80.
His wife, Amanda Butler-Davis, said he died on Thursday 5 November after a short illness. Jones had turned 80 on Monday.
Williams' first champion
Jones raced in F1 from 1975 to 1986 and won 12 Grands Prix. He was the second Australian to become world champion, after Sir Jack Brabham, and remains the most recent.
His first win came for the Shadow team at the 1977 Austrian Grand Prix. Shadow had signed him to replace Tom Pryce, who was killed earlier that season in South Africa.
Jones joined Williams in 1978. When the FW07 arrived in 1979, he won four of the last six races and finished third in the championship.
In 1980 he won five of the 14 championship races and beat Brabham's Nelson Piquet to the title. Williams have since produced six more drivers' champions.
Retirement and comebacks
Jones won twice more in 1981, at Long Beach and in the season finale at Las Vegas, then surprised the sport by retiring at 34.
He returned for one race with Arrows in 1983, then drove for the new Haas team, which has no link to today's team of the same name, in 1985 and 1986. He scored no more wins and left F1 for good at the end of 1986.
Back home, he raced touring cars and sports cars, made his last professional start at the 2002 Bathurst 1000 and became a well known F1 commentator on Australian television.
Jones also won the 1980 Australian Grand Prix at Calder Park, when it was not a championship round. His father Stan had won the race in 1959, and no Australian has won it since Alan.
Tributes
Williams said Jones was instrumental in making the team what it is today, and called him "a true Australian icon and a Williams legend".
Sir Patrick Head, who co-founded the team with Frank Williams, told Autosport that Jones was good enough to have won several titles.
He is survived by his wife and six children.
Race it on Late Brake
The photo shows Jones at Monaco in 1979, and Monaco is one of six real circuits in Late Brake, the free browser game. Turn on the racing line to find your way through the hairpins and the tunnel, then race your own ghost towards the gold medal time.
Sources: BBC Sport, Autosport, Motorsport.com, The Race, Wikipedia)