“Tanga, tanga, mhanya” unorangarira? Ndiwo matangiro akaita mijaho kusekondari.
Maawa makumi maviri nemana eLe Mans, kusvika iyo 1969 edition, yakanga isina kunyanya kusiyana. Vatyairi vakamhanyira kumotokari sevana vari panhandare. Asi pane mumwe mutyairi wendege akashinga kuramba mutemo iwoyo.
Muna 1969, vanhu vanopfuura 400 000 vakatarisa kuvhurwa kwemaawa makumi maviri nemana eLe Mans. Pakatanga chiratidzo, vatyairi vese vakatanga kumhanyira kumotokari dzavo kunze kweumwe chete… Jacky Ickx.
Kufamba zvakadzikama muFord GT40 yake vamwe vatyairi vachimhanya ndiyo nzira iyo Jacky Ickx, aka “Monsieur Le Mans”, akawana achipokana nerudzi urwu rwekubva.
Zvakanga zvisina kuchengeteka. Kuti vachengetedze masekondi mashomanana, vatyairi vendege vakatombosimuka vasina kunyatsosunga mabhandi avo.
Zvakanga zviri chaizvo pasi pemamiriro ezvinhu aya kuti shamwari yaJacky Ickx Willy Mairesse akakuvadzwa zvakaipisisa mune yakambodhindwa ye24 Maawa eLe Mans. Zvakazoitika mutsaona iyoyo zvakaita kuti mutyairi weBelgian akanga arwara azviuraye, akatarisana nedambudziko rekudzoka kumujaho.
Nekuda kwekufamba kwake kwekuratidzira, Jacky Ickx ndiye aive wekupedzisira kusimuka. Uye mune imwe yezviitiko zvinosuwisa, kunyangwe panguva yekutanga ye24 Maawa eLe Mans, rudzi urwu rwekutanga rwakatora humwe hupenyu mutsaona. Kukuvara kwakabatwa nemutyairi wendege John Woolfe (Porsche 917) kwakauraya. Kukuvara kungadai kwakadziviswa dai Woolfe akaisa bhandi rake rechigaro.
kuhwina kaviri
Kunyangwe akange adonha panzvimbo yekupedzisira pakutanga kwemujaho, Jacky Ickx aizopedzisira ahwina Maawa makumi maviri nemana eLe Mans pamwe naJackie Oliver pavhiri reFord GT40. Yakanga iri imwe yekukunda yakakwikwidzwa zvakanyanya munhoroondo ye24 Maawa eLe Mans. Muganho weIckx naOliver (Ford GT40) waHans Herrmann naGérard Larrousse (Porsche 908), akatevera ari pachinhanho chechipiri, aingova masekondi mashoma mushure memaawa makumi maviri nemana!
Kukunda kwaJacky Ickx muna 1969 kwaingova kwekutanga kwezvizhinji (kuwanda kwekukunda kutanhatu) mumujaho wengano wekutsungirira uyu. Kumwe kukunda kwaIckx, kusingakoshi, kwaive kupera kwemutambo wenhangemutange. Kuratidzira kwayo sui generis uye kutyora kuri pachena kwekuchengetedza kwakaunza kupera kweiyi mhando yemutambo wemota. Kusvikira nhasi.
Mhare yepasirese yenguva mbiri, Formula 1 mumhanyi wepasi rose uye muhwina weDakar, Jacky Ickx inhoroondo yechokwadi yemotorsport. Muchinda pamateru.