It was originally built with very tight bends in the area around Sceaux: Arnoux had devised a new articulation system that allowed train wheels to turn, the " système ferroviaire dit Arnoux ", and the line was to test his prototypes.

Berger was leading the final race of the season at Adelaide ahead of Prost and Senna before he clashed with former Ferrari driver René Arnoux in the Ligier while trying to lap the Frenchman.

The genus name honors admiral Auguste Bérard ( 1796-1852 ), who was captain of the French corvette Le Rhin ( 1842-1846 ), which brought back the type specimen to France where Duvernoy analyzed it ; the specific name honors Dr. Maurice Arnoux, the ship's surgeon who found the skull of the type specimen on a beach near Akaroa, New Zealand.

In an organisation with insufficient means to figure in the highest echelon of the sport, Arnoux was unable to demonstrate his abilities.

The team's only victory of the year was taken by Arnoux's teammate Jean-Pierre Jabouille at the French Grand Prix at the Dijon-Prenois circuit, but Arnoux took the headlines due to a fierce but good-natured wheel-banging battle with Gilles Villeneuve for second place, where Arnoux took third.

Arnoux replied that no orders had been given before the race and that he was free to drive his own race.

After finishing 4th in the opening race of the 1985 championship in Brazil, Arnoux was suddenly dismissed from the team with no explanation ever given by either driver or team.

Towards the end of his career Arnoux attracted some controversy ; he was frequently accused of blocking faster cars in qualifying and when being lapped, even taking off a number of cars as well, such as race leader Gerhard Berger at the 1988 Australian Grand Prix

DAMS was founded in 1988 by Jean-Paul Driot and former Formula One driver René Arnoux.

On the second lap Arnoux was able to pass Scheckter to take the lead and for the next few laps the five front-runners were nose-to-tail, while Regazzoni ran in a lonely sixth position.

The race was won by French driver René Arnoux driving a Renault RE20.

The race was won by French driver René Arnoux driving a Renault RE20.

It was Arnoux ' second World Championship victory adding to his win at the previous race the 1980 Brazilian Grand Prix.

Pironi was now equal with Arnoux.

The front row of the grid was occupied by the Renault RE20s of René Arnoux and Jean-Pierre Jabouille although Piquet led by lap 4 and was never headed.

Reutemann was now five points ahead of Jacques Laffite and eight ahead of Arnoux.

It was almost a perfect weekend for the Maranello based team with René Arnoux qualifying on pole and finishing 3rd.

The race was won by René Arnoux driving a Ferrari, with Andrea de Cesaris in an Alfa Romeo and Riccardo Patrese in a Brabham-BMW completing the podium.

The Tyrrell team's results were erased later in the season due to weight infringements, meaning that Bellof was stripped of his podium finish, with his place being taken by René Arnoux.

René Arnoux has since started an indoor karting business called Kart ' in, consisting of four tracks in France, two in the Parisian area, one in the suburbs of Lyons and one near Marseille.

The race is perhaps best remembered for one of the fiercest battles ever for second place, between Ferrari driver Gilles Villeneuve and Renault driver René Arnoux, who on several occasions during the final laps touched wheels and swapped positions.

World Championship leader Alain Prost qualified 8th in his Renault RE40, one place behind team mate Eddie Cheever, while separating the top four and Cheever in 7th were the Ferraris of René Arnoux ( 5th ) and Patrick Tambay ( 6th ).

After one lap, Piquet led Patrick Depailler, who had gotten by René Arnoux in the hairpin.

Prost again took the lead off the grid, and one lap later he led Rosberg, Pironi, Giacomelli, Cheever, René Arnoux, Lauda and Mansell.

After one lap, Sullivan was up to sixth, behind Arnoux, and Cheever was ninth, immediately behind Prost.

At the hairpin, the Williams and Ferrari swapped places around Cheever, as Arnoux went from sixth to fourth in one corner.

After one lap, the order was Villeneuve, Jones, Carlos Reutemann, Jacques Laffite, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Clay Regazzoni, René Arnoux, Didier Pironi, John Watson and Jean-Pierre Jarier.

The drivers took the first one-two in Renault's history in Formula One, Arnoux finishing ahead of Prost.

No drivers improved their times, leaving the Renaults of Alain Prost and René Arnoux on the front row of the grid.

Six turbo-charged cars completed the first 6 grid positions, and 4 turbo-charged cars driven by 4 French drivers finished in the top 4 places, and the French Renault team finished 1-2 with René Arnoux winning and Alain Prost finishing second, but under sour circumstances-as Arnoux violated a pre-race agreement that if he and Prost were 1st and 2nd, Arnoux would let Prost by to help his better championship standing.

Before the race, three drivers were still in a position to win the World Drivers ' Championship: Alain Prost ( Renault ) led the championship with 57 points, followed by Nelson Piquet ( Brabham-BMW ) with 55 and René Arnoux ( Ferrari ) with 49.

Two drivers announced their retirements on Friday, Piercarlo Ghinzani driving an Osella and René Arnoux in the Ligier both bowed out.

At the drivers meeting before the race Ligier driver René Arnoux announced his retirement from Formula One racing at the age of 41.

But positive signs were beginning to show as Gachot just missed out on pre-qualifying in Imola, Johansson would do the same at Monaco before finally, Johannson would make it out of pre-qualifying in Mexico, setting the 6th fastest time in Saturday free practice before qualifying 21st for the race, ahead of the illustrious Nelson Piquet and respected drivers Pierluigi Martini, René Arnoux and Eddie Cheever.

Satoru Nakajima started from the pit lane owing to a faulty battery in his Lotus 99T, and René Arnoux failed to take the second start after the suspension of his Ligier JS29B failed.

By lap 20, Rosberg had caught up with Piquet's Brabham and easily went by to take second, about twenty seconds behind Arnoux.

In the 1980 season, Arnoux took his first two Formula One victories, the first being at a much-protested Interlagos circuit in Brazil but a lack of reliability prevented him from playing a part in the fight for the world title, although he took three pole positions.

Although better known for their successful efforts in Formula Three, Formula Renault and other lower formulae during the 1970s and 1980s, they are also known for having taken part in eight rounds of the 1978 Formula One season with the single MK23 chassis, giving René Arnoux ( later a driver for Renault and Ferrari ) his debut in Formula One.

Arnoux started at the back of the field for the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix, but climbed to second by the finish.

Villeneuve, who passed the finish line less than a quarter of a second ahead of Arnoux, later described the occasion as " my best memory of Grand Prix racing ".

Team mate René Arnoux qualified 2nd in what would be the last all-Ferrari front row until the 1988 British Grand Prix.

Ligier, the leading French team in Formula One at the time, had a disastrous weekend with both René Arnoux and Stefan Johansson failing to qualify for the team's home Grand Prix, though they did have a celebration of sorts over the weekend as Arnoux turned 40 the day after the race.

He joined Ligier for 1988, ironically alongside the man he replaced at Ferrari, René Arnoux, but the team's first non-turbo powered car since, the Michel Beaujon designed JS31-Judd, was totally uncompetitive scoring no points and more often than not failing to qualify, even against teams with much smaller budgets such as AGS and Rial ( the French teams low point of the year was when both Johansson and Arnoux failed to qualify for the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard in the first weekend of July ).

The following year saw him return to the Osella team, while for 1987 he was contracted to the Ligier team, alongside former Grand Prix winner René Arnoux.