Etienne Jones

as of 2023 ES Hockenheim GP

Etienne Jones is a British OC driver who drove in the 2018 season of tier 1 for the Manor Racing MRT team. In 2023 he returned to the Entrance Series.

### DTM and GP2 (2011-14)

Jones debuted in 2011 for Team RMG in DTM. He was a solid performer in his opening season with a handful of points scoring finishes, however, none were especially high and as a result, he was a disappointing 12th overall at seasons end.

After a season away from competition in 2012, Jones returned to full time racing in 2013 for GP2 team Barwa Addax. The season wasn't a great success with a high point of third at the Belgian Grand Prix. Moving to Caterham for 2014, whilst he won in Hungary, Jones was never a championship factor and as a result, fell to a disappointing 9th overall. Nonetheless, Jones was miraculously signed up to Manor Racing in F1 for 2015.

### Manor (2015-Present)

Jones impressed almost immediately in the uncompetitive Manor. The car was miles off the pace and both Jones and his teammate, Pole Mateusz Turwik, were expected to struggle. Jones surprised everyone by scoring points on his debut with eighth, joining the select group of drivers to score points on their top class debut. He followed this up with another points finish in Malaysia the next race. Jones scored points in Canada but these were to be his last of the season. Despite scoring points on three occasions compared to his teammates one, Turwik would triumph over his teammate courtesy of his sixth place finish in Monaco paying more points than all three of Jones' combined.

Despite being beaten in the standings, Jones was retained for 2016 but was now partnered by popular Italian rookie, Nicholas Pascali. Jones started the season as the undisputed Number 1 at the team and was expected to build on their backmarker promise from the season before. No one could've predicted the season that Pascali was set to have as the Italian hotshot surpassed all expectations and demolished Jones in both performances and the standings. Despite scoring a few points finishes himself and bettering his points from the prior season, Pascali ended up scoring over double what Jones managed, and as a result his reputation took a heavy blow.

Retained for a third season in 2017, the season was set to be much tougher. The Manor had gone backwards performance-wise in the off season and a season of struggle was predicted for both drivers. Jones scored the teams first points in Russia with 9th and Pascali bettered this result in Monaco 2 rounds later with 8th.

However, on the 31st May, the Manor team and the entire F1 paddock was rocked by the shock passing of Pascali following complications brought on as a result of COVID-19. As a mark of respect to the late Italian, Manor ran only the one car of Jones at the following round in Canada, Jones would eventually retire from the race.

From Azerbaijan onwards, Jones would be partnered by Nikolas Zorbach who was chosen as Pascali's replacement for the remainder of the season. The loss of his teammate sparked a revival in Jones' performances. He scored an emotional Seventh place finish in Baku which marked his highest finish in F1 to date. It was a result wholeheartedly dedicated to his deceased teammate and was testament to Manor and Jones' resilience in the weeks following Pascali's death.

The remainder of the year was a marked improvement, as Jones scored a handful of further points finishes. He ended up the highest placed Manor driver that season as well due to the fact Zorbach failed to score a point in his races as Pascali's replacement. As such Jones was retained for 2018 and Zorbach relegated back to GP2.

Now partnered by Russian rookie Maxim Titkov, Jones made a good start to 2018 with points on the cars first outing with 10th in Australia.