10 Facts About Jo Schlesser

Joseph Jo Schlesser was a French Formula One and sports car racing driver.

Jo Schlesser participated in three World Championship Grands Prix, including the 1968 French Grand Prix in which he was killed.

Jo Schlesser was the uncle of Jean-Louis Schlesser who himself became a Formula One driver in the 1980s.

Jo Schlesser began his motor sport career in 1952, when he rallied a Panhard before, in 1954, trying the then popular French class of racing known as Monomill.

Jo Schlesser's career was then interrupted for three years whilst he was working in Mozambique but he returned to Europe in 1957 when he finished second in the Rome–Liege–Rome Rally in a Mercedes.

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Jo Schlesser then raced a Ferrari 250 GT but without much success until 1960 when he finished second in class at the Nurburgring 1000 km and second overall at Rouen.

Jo Schlesser raced a Cooper in Formula Two in 1960 but only achieved a sixth place at Syracuse.

In 1964 Jo Schlesser moved to the new one-litre Formula Two and became a highly regarded competitor in European Formula Two in the pre-European Formula Two Championship era.

Jo Schlesser raced in NASCAR, finishing 13th in the 1964 Daytona 500 as a teammate to Ned Jarrett.

Jo Schlesser participated in the 1966 German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring with a Formula Two specification Matra MS5-BRM 1.