caption years death_date death_place championships birth_place races nationality points birth_date poles wins image article_title name podiums
depailler at dijon in 1975 1972 , 1974 -- 1980 1 august 1980 hockenheim , germany 0 clermont-ferrand , france 95 fra french 139 -lrb- 141 -rrb- 9 august 1944 1 2 patrickdepailler-ar . jpg patrick depailler
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patrick depailler

patrick andré eugène joseph depailler -lrb- 9 august 1944 -- 1 august 1980 -rrb- was a racing driver from france .
he participated in 95 world championship formula one grands prix , debuting on 2 july 1972 .
he also participated in several non-championship formula one races .
depailler was born in clermont-ferrand , puy-de-dôme .
as a child , he was inspired by jean behra .
in formula one , he joined a tyrrell team that was beginning a long , slow decline , eventually moving to the erratic ligier team before finally ending up with the revived alfa romeo squad in 1980 .
depailler was helping to advance this team up the grid when he was killed in a crash at hockenheim on 1 august 1980 , during a private testing session .
he won 2 races , secured 1 pole position , achieved 19 podiums , and scored a total of 141 championship points .
