Rene Arnoux Biography: René Alexandre Arnoux is a retired French racing driver who raced in Formula One for 12 seasons. He competed in 165 World Championship Grands Prix, winning seven of them, finishing on the podium 22 times, and accruing 181 career points. His best World Drivers’ Championship finish was third for Ferrari in 1983.
Rene Arnoux Biography
Rene Arnoux Biography: Rene Arnoux was born on 4 July 1948 in Pontcharra, Isère, France. Arnoux joined Winfield Racing School and finished as the top student, receiving the famous Volant Shell Competition Scholarship, which Shell Oil funded for a free Formula Renault season. He debuted Formula Two in 1974 with Elf, finishing fourth at Nogaro. He won the Formula Super Renault championship in 1975. Arnoux returned to Formula Two in 1976 with an Elf-sponsored works Martini-Renault, winning three races and just losing the tournament to Jean-Pierre Jabouille. However, he won the 1977 European Championship while driving a Martini-Renault.

Rene Arnoux Wiki
Name | Rene Arnoux |
Date Of Birth | 4 July 1948 |
Birth Place | Pontcharra, Isère, France |
Height | 5ft 7inch |
Weight | N/A |
Zodiac Sign | Cancer |
Profession | Racing Driver |
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Car Collection | N/A |
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Rene Arnoux Net Worth
According to Wikipedia, Forbes, and Business Insider, Rene Arnoux’s net worth is $5 million.

Rene Arnoux Career
The factory Renault team entered two cars for the first time since its debut in 1977 during the 1979 season. At the French Grand Prix at the Dijon-Prenois circuit, Arnoux’s teammate Jean-Pierre Jabouille claimed the team’s only victory of the year. Still, Arnoux made headlines for his wheel-banging battle with Gilles Villeneuve’s Flat-12 Ferrari for second place, which Villeneuve won. In the second half of the season, Arnoux finished in the top six four times, including three podium finishes; Jabouille’s victory in Dijon was his only finish worth points.
In 1980, Arnoux won his first of two Formula One races at the Interlagos circuit in Brazil. His second victory came in the next race at the Kyalami circuit in South Africa, where the thin air at high altitude gave the turbocharged Renault RE20 an advantage over its primarily Cosworth-powered competitors. Following this race, Arnoux assumed the first-place position in the World Championship. He refused to give up the championship advantage until Monaco’s sixth race. However, the turbocharged Renault V6 engine’s unreliability compromised the season. The unit produced approximately 510 bhp (380 kW; 517 PS) to be on par with Ferrari, but it was fragile, and the Renaults lacked ground effects. Despite finishing second in the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, he ended the season in sixth place with 29 points, 38 points behind World Champion Alan Jones.
As the pairing of Prost and Arnoux became unsustainable, Arnoux quit Renault in 1982 to join Ferrari in 1983, where colleague French Patrick Tambay joined him. Arnoux was in contention for the world championship until the final race of the season, the South African Grand Prix, as he had won the Canadian, German, and Dutch Grand Prix. After retiring from that race due to engine failure, he concluded the season third, behind Nelson Piquet and Prost. Due to their aggressive driving styles, Arnoux and Tambay became fan favorites among the Tifosi, and as a result, Ferrari won the 1983 Constructors’ Championship. The victory at Zandvoort was the seventh and final victory of Arnoux’s Formula One career.

With Prost and Lauda’s McLarens dominating 1984, Arnoux’s second season at Ferrari was less successful, as he finished sixth with 27 points, and his new teammate Michele Alboreto steadily took the initiative and team leadership from him. After three victories and four pole positions in 1983, Arnoux failed to win or claim a pole position in 1984 (Alboreto won the Belgian Grand Prix from pole with Arnoux starting second and finishing third). However, he finished second in San Marino and Dallas, where he was forced to withdraw from the pits due to an electrical fault on the warm-up lap and kept his car out of trouble on the crumbling track. The only Grand Prix held in Dallas was the last event Arnoux finished on the podium in Formula One.
Arnoux appeared to lack motivation as the season continued, and after finishing fourth in the opening race of the 1985 championship in Brazil, he freely split ways with Ferrari. He was replaced on the team by the Swedish driver Stefan Johansson. In Round 3, he was spotted in the Brabham pits at Imola, causing rumors that he would join the team then owned by Bernie Ecclestone. However, nothing came to pass, and he was rarely seen at races for the remainder of the season.