Schlesser was killed that year on his F1 debut at the French Grand Prix, at the wheel of the curious air-cooled Honda F1 car, and Ligier decided he had had enough and retired.

After a first outing in 1984, Schlesser began to compete regularly in the Paris-Dakar Rally in 1989.

The mid-1980s saw Schlesser perform in touring cars and sports cars, winning the French Touring Car Championship in 1985 with a TWR Rover Vitesse, as well as driving the works TWR Jaguars in the World Sportscar Championship.

In 1986, he switched to a Porsche 956 from Richard Lloyd Racing's outfit, returning to a works drive in 1988 with the Sauber-Mercedes team, with whom Baldi won the 1990 FIA World Sports Prototype Championship for Drivers, sharing the car with Jean-Louis Schlesser.

He is the nephew of Jo Schlesser, a former Formula One driver.

Wings were used on Formula One cars and aerodynamics really played a part in terms of the cars ' performance, and 5 Grand Prix drivers were killed in this year-including Jim Clark, Mike Spence, Jo Schlesser and Ludovico Scarfiotti.

Neither was very successful and so in 1968 Ligier decided to form a partnership with Jo Schlesser and the two bought a pair of McLaren Formula 2 cars.

Joseph Schlesser ( 18 May 1928 in Liouville, France – 7 July 1968 at Rouen-Les-Essarts ) was a Formula One and sports car racing driver from France.

Schlesser also participated in the 1966 and 1967 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, each time driving a Formula Two spec Matra-Cosworth.

A real Formula One opportunity came for Schlesser in 1968 with Honda.

A friend of Jo Schlesser's, future Formula One constructor Guy Ligier always gave his cars type numbers beginning with ' JS ' as a tribute to Schlesser.

His nephew Jean-Louis Schlesser later became a successful racing driver, who started one Formula One grand prix and won the Paris Dakar.

Rouen hosted five Formula One French Grand Prix races, the last one in 1968 resulting in the tragic burning death of Jo Schlesser, at the fast downhill Six Frères curve.

* 1968 – Jo Schlesser, French race car driver ( b. 1928 )

The race was memorable for McLaren driver Ayrton Senna, with just two laps remaining and thus far leading the race, colliding with Schlesser at the Rettifilo left-right chicane.

The French driver Jo Schlesser had a fatal accident on the second lap of the race.

Martin Brundle, his replacement in Belgium, was scheduled to race with Jaguar on the weekend and so the second Williams seat went to test driver Jean-Louis Schlesser.

With two laps remaining in the race, Senna attempted to lap the Williams of Schlesser at the Rettifilo Chicane.

It was also generally thought that Senna had used too much fuel in the first half of the race in his bid to keep in front of Prost and that was why the Ferraris were catching him rapidly at the end with Berger only 5 seconds behind when Senna and Schlesser collided.

The Brazilian duly pulled alongside, but, at that moment, Schlesser ran out of room and, wishing to keep his Williams on the track, turned sharp left to make the corner.

Senna accidentally hit Schlesser and was livid, whilst the tifosi erupted ; Gerhard Berger and Michele Alboreto sat first and second, where they remained at the finish.

Well known French drivers Andre Simon and Jo Schlesser drove this coupe at the very tough Nurburgring course.

It competed in eight FIA races in 1965 ( Daytona, Sebring, Monza, Spa, Nürburgring, LeMans, Reims, Enna ), won four times in GT III class, at Monza, Nürburgring, Reims, Enna ), and driven by Bob Johnson, Tom Payne, Bob Bondurant, Allen Grant, ( German ) Jochen Neerpasch and Jo Schlesser ( an outstanding French driver who was killed in an accident at the French Grand Prix in 1968 ).

In February he signed a pre-contract with Jean-Louis Schlesser to drive one of his buggies at the 2008 Dakar Rally ; but he couldn't get the sponsors.

Berger was the only driver to break the McLaren stranglehold in 1988, winning the Italian Grand Prix after Senna tangled with Jean-Louis Schlesser, who had temporarily replaced a sick with chicken pox Nigel Mansell in the Williams-Judd.

The Sauber-Mercedes of Jochen Mass and Jean-Louis Schlesser prevented the Tom Walkinshaw team from claiming a fourth win for Jaguar.

Senna, who had taken his normal line and hadn't counted on Schlesser regaining control was t-boned in the right rear by Schlesser's Williams causing broken rear suspension for the Mclaren.

BBC commentator James Hunt placed the blame on Schlesser although many felt that Senna had not given any allowance for Schlesser to come back on the track.

Senna looked set to secure another victory, and albeit seal his championship hopes, when lapping Schlesser, filling in for the still ill Mansell, decided it was wise to do so on one of the track's corners, instead of waiting for the long straight that would follow.

So Porsche managed to put 5 of 8 drivers on the center of the podium, plus Jo Schlesser and Joe Buzzetta finishing in 3rd place, with only Mitter being left out.

Jean-Louis Schlesser ( born 12 September 1948 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle ) is a French racing driver with experience in circuit racing and cross-country rallying.

Schlesser grew up in Morocco before returning to France to study and complete military service.

According to media reports and the driver's own recollection, as the two cars approached the chicane's braking zone, Schlesser saw Senna coming and expected the McLaren to pass on the inside, so he went wide right on the first left bend.

His first buggy, the Porsche-powered Schlesser Original, debuted in 1992 in the Baja Portugal 1000, which Schlesser won outright, beating the works Citroën cars with a two wheel drive vehicle and without a navigator by his side.

Senna headed to the left to pass the Frenchman on the inside of the first chicane, however Schlesser locked his brakes and the Williams slid forward towards the gravel trap.

Somehow Schlesser managed to collect the car and turned left to avoid going off.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

The Peace Corps can either begin in very low gear, with only preparatory work undertaken between now and when Congress finally appropriates special funds for it -- or it can be launched now and in earnest by executive action, with sufficient funds and made available from existing Mutual Security appropriations to permit a number of substantial projects to start this summer.

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Labour Party and opposition leader Neil Kinnock made endless calls for a general election throughout 1991, but Major held out and decided not to call the election until he finally set an election date of 9 April 1992.

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Henry, reoccupying most of the Lancaster lands, was made constable of Kenilworth and Edward was transported there in late 1326 ; Henry's legal title to the castle was finally confirmed the following year.