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A taste of victory
Steven LynchJanuary 26, 2015
I was sorry to read about the death of Jean-Pierre Beltoise. How many other people won just one Grand Prix, as he did? asked David Miller
Jean-Pierre Beltoise, who passed away last week at the age of 77, won one Grand Prix - at a sopping wet Monaco in 1972 - during a long career. It was the 17th and last GP victory by a BRM car.
Beltoise is one of no fewer than 23 men who have won just one world championship Grand Prix in their careers. The only current driver on the list is Pastor Maldonado, who won the Spanish GP for Williams in 2012. Other recent single winners are Jarno Trulli (Monaco 2004), Robert Kubica (Canada 2008) and Heikki Kovalainen (Hungary 2008).
To complete the set, the other one-hit wonders are: Luigi Fagioli (French 1951), Piero Taruffi (Swiss 1952), Luigi Musso (Argentine 1956), Jo Bonnier (Dutch 1959), Giancarlo Baghetti (French 1961, his first race), Innes Ireland (USA 1961), Lorenzo Bandini (Austria 1964), Richie Ginther (Mexican 1965), Ludovico Scarfiotti (Italian 1966), Peter Gethin (Italian 1971), Francois Cevert (USA 1971), Carlos Pace (Brazilian 1975), Jochen Mass (Spanish 1975), Vittorio Brambilla (Austrian 1975), Gunnar Nilsson (Belgian 1977), Alessandro Nannini (Japanese 1989), Jean Alesi (Canadian 1995) and Olivier Panis (Monaco 1996).
This excludes nine Americans who won the Indianapolis 500 once during the time it counted towards the world title (1950-60).
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