The 2025 Lifetime Sport Achievement Award : Jacky Ickx

SPORTEL Awards announces the 2025 Lifetime Sport Achievement Award: Jacky Ickx.
This motor racing legend’s career has always been fascinating. Equally talented in sprint and endurance racing — in F1, rally raid, and Can-Am — Jacky made history with his speed across every discipline.

Nicknamed the “Gentleman Driver”, “Mr. Le Mans”, and “Rain Master” and honored with the title of “Endurance Driver of the Century”, Jacky Ickx’s career spans 32 active seasons with over 555 races.
He won two European Formula 2 Championship titles in 1967 and 1970, finished runner-up in the Formula 1 World Championship in 1969 and 1970, and claimed 46 endurance racing victories, including two World Endurance Championship titles with Porsche in 1982 and 1983.

He also shone in the Paris-Dakar Rally with 29 stage wins and an overall victory in 1983. Today, Jacky Ickx remains one of the most respected and beloved drivers in the world of motorsport — and beyond.

Jacky Ickx reste aujourd’hui, l’un des pilotes les plus respectés et les plus aimés du monde du sport automobile – et au-delà.

After Didier Deschamps in 2018, Alain Prost in 2019, Katarina Witt in 2023, and Nikola Karabatic in 2024, Jacky Ickx will be honored in Monaco for his exceptional career on Monday, October 20, 2025, during the SPORTEL Awards ceremony at the Grimaldi Forum.