“Tangira, tangira, wiruke” wibuke? Nuburyo gusiganwa byatangiye mumashuri yisumbuye.
Amasaha 24 ya Le Mans, kugeza mu 1969, ntabwo yari atandukanye cyane. Abashoferi birukaga ku modoka nk'abana ku kibuga. Ariko hariho umuderevu umwe watinyutse gusuzugura iryo tegeko.
Mu 1969, abantu barenga 400.000 barebye ifungura ryamasaha 24 ya Le Mans. Ku kimenyetso cyo gutangira, abashoferi bose batangiye kwiruka mumodoka zabo usibye imwe… Jacky Ickx.
Kugenda utuje muri Ford GT40 ye mugihe abandi bashoferi birukaga nuburyo Jacky Ickx, uzwi ku izina rya "Monsieur Le Mans", yasanze bigaragambije bamagana iyo nzira.
Ntabwo byari bifite umutekano. Kugirango uzigame amasegonda make, abaderevu barahaguruka bataboshye neza.
Muri ibi bihe, ni bwo mugenzi wa Jacky Ickx witwa Willy Mairesse yakomeretse bikabije mu gitabo cyabanjirije amasaha 24 ya Le Mans. Inyuma y'iyo mpanuka yatumye umushoferi w'umubiligi utazi nabi yiyahura, ahura n'ibidashoboka gusubira mu isiganwa.
Kubera urugendo rwe rwo kwigaragambya, Jacky Ickx niwe wanyuma wahagurutse. Kandi muri kimwe muri ibyo byahuriranye, ndetse no mugice cya mbere cyamasaha 24 ya Le Mans, ubu bwoko bwo gutangira bwahitanye ubuzima bwimpanuka. Imvune zatewe n’umuderevu John Woolfe (Porsche 917) zahitanye. Ibikomere byashoboraga kwirindwa iyo Woolfe yambara umukandara.
gutsinda kabiri
Nubwo yamanutse kumwanya wanyuma mugitangira irushanwa, Jacky Ickx amaherezo yatsindaga Amasaha 24 ya Le Mans hamwe na Jackie Oliver kumuzinga wa Ford GT40. Nimwe mu ntsinzi zahatanwe mumateka yamasaha 24 ya Le Mans. Amajwi ya Ickx na Oliver (Ford GT40) kuri Hans Herrmann na Gérard Larrousse (Porsche 908) bakurikiranye umwanya wa kabiri, yari amasegonda make nyuma yamasaha 24!
Intsinzi ya Jacky Ickx yo mu 1969 niyo yabaye iyambere muri benshi (intsinzi esheshatu zose) muri iri siganwa ryo kwihangana. Indi ntsinzi kuri Ickx, ntabwo ari ngombwa, yari iherezo ryumukino wo gusiganwa. Imyiyerekano ya sui generis hamwe no guhungabanya umutekano byazanye iherezo ryubwoko bwimikino ya moteri. Kugeza uyu munsi.
Inshuro ebyiri zo Kwihangana kwisi, inshuro ebyiri za kabiri za Formula 1 nuwatsinze Dakar, Jacky Ickx numugani wukuri wa motorsport. Umugwaneza kumurongo no hanze.