Jan Lammers

Jan Lammers of Hope Racing's Oreca Swiss HY Tech Hybrid (cropped).jpg
Jan Lammers
Born	2 1956 (1956-Template:Pad2digit-Template:Pad2digit) Zandvoort, Netherlands
Died	{{{death_date}}} {{{death_place}}}
Formula One career
Nationality	Dutch
Years	1979 – 1982, 1992

Jan Lammers

Johannes "Jan" Lammers, (born June 2, 1956 in Zandvoort), is a racing driver and team principal from the Netherlands.

In 1979, Lammers made his debut in Formula One driving Shadow and moved to ATS for 1980. He moved to Ensign mid-way through the season but rejoined ATS for four races in 1981. He joined Theodore for 1982. Ten years later he returned to Formula One for the final two races of the 1992 season.

He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1988 and later participated in the race with his own team Racing for Holland. He was also the seatholder of the Dutch A1 Grand Prix team.

Early years

Lammers grew up as a kid washing cars at a sliding school in Zandvoort. As a 12-year old he started to show customers how to slide safely, encouraged by sliding school owner and racing driver Rob Slotemaker who quickly recognized Lammers's talent. When he was 16 years old, he started his first race at the local racing track. In the following years he starred in Dutch touring car and Formula Ford races before moving up to European Formula 3 in 1977. He did not get good results with his Hawke and for his second season he joined Racing Team Holland run by Alan Docking. The other drivers of the team were fellow future Formula 1 driver Huub Rothengatter and later Indy 500 winner Arie Luyendijk. It was a successful move as Lammers won the 1978 European Formula 3 Championship after a close battle with Swede Anders Olofsson.

Career

Formula One

Lammers began his Formula One career with Shadow in 1979 with Elio de Angelis as his teammate. He did not have a great debut as de Angelis was the team's number one driver. His best result was a ninth place in Canada.

Jan Lammers driving the Theodore TY02 at the Dutch Grand Prix in 1982

In 1980 he moved to Günther Schmidt's ATS team. In the first three races he failed to qualify but in Long Beach he qualified a very strong fourth. This would be the highlight of his F1 career. Later that year he moved to the Ensign Team but there he only managed to qualify three times. In 1981 he returned to ATS but only raced the first four races of the year. For 1982, he moved to Theodore but his season was something of a disaster. He did manage to start in his home race. He scored no championship points during his F1 career, and tried IndyCar racing before turning to sports car racing.

Le Mans

In 1988, Lammers, together with Andy Wallace and Johnny Dumfries, won the Le Mans with the Silk Cut Jaguar/TWR team. Lammers drove 13 out of the 24 hours, and beat the Porsche team who had remained unbeaten since 1981. Lammers and the team managed to finish first despite a broken gearbox. It was the first victory for Jaguar since 1957.

For this feat, Jan Lammers received the title Honorary Member of the BRDC, a title rarely awarded to non-British residents. Enzo Ferrari and Juan Manuel Fangio have also received the award.

In 1990 Lammers won the 24 Hours of Daytona driving a Jaguar XJR-12 along with Davy Jones and Andy Wallace.

Lammers returned to Le Mans in 2011 with Hope Racing in the LMP1 category.

Return to Formula One

In 1992, Lammers made a two-race comeback in Formula One for March, in Japan and Australia. These races marked his first Formula One appearance since 1982, which is the longest gap between successive Grands Prix in the history of Formula One. He was signed for the team in 1993 alongside French driver Jean-Marc Gounon but the team went bankrupt before the season started.

BTCC

In 1994 Lammers teamed up with TWR again to race in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) driving the Volvo 850 estate.

Team principal

In 1999 Jan Lammers started his own Sportcar team, Racing for Holland. He raced in the FIA Sportscar Championship together with his teammate and pupil Val Hillebrand. In 2002 and 2003 he earned the FIA Awards for his world championships in the Sportscar series.

Since 2005 Jan Lammers has run the Dutch A1 Grandprix team for the A1 Grand Prix series, with drivers including Jos Verstappen (2005/6) and Jeroen Bleekemolen and Renger van der Zande(2006/7).

Lammers participated in all three Grand Prix Masters events. A seventh place in the Qatar race was his best result.

Racing record

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1979	Shadow Racing Team	Shadow DN9	Ford 3.0 V8	ARG Ret	BRA 14	RSA Ret	USW Ret	ESP 12	BEL 10	MON DNQ	FRA 18	GBR 11	GER 10	AUT Ret	NED Ret	ITA DNQ	CAN 9	USA DNQ		NC	0
1980	Team ATS	ATS D3	Ford 3.0 V8	ARG DNQ	BRA DNQ	RSA DNQ														NC	0
		ATS D4					USW Ret	BEL 12	MON NC
	Unipart Racing Team	Ensign N180	Ford 3.0 V8							FRA DNQ	GBR DNQ	GER 14	AUT DNQ	NED DNQ	ITA DNQ	CAN 12	USA Ret
1981	Team ATS	ATS D4	Ford 3.0 V8	USW Ret	BRA DNQ	ARG 12														NC	0
		ATS HGS					SMR DNQ	BEL	MON	ESP	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	CAN	CPL
1982	Theodore Racing Team	Theodore TY02	Ford 3.0 V8	RSA	BRA	USW	SMR	BEL DNQ	MON DNQ	DET DNQ	CAN	NED Ret	GBR DNQ	FRA DNQ	GER	AUT	SUI	ITA	CPL	NC	0
1992	March F1	March CG911	Ilmor 2175A 3.5 V10	RSA	MEX	BRA	ESP	SMR	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN Ret	AUS 12	NC	0

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1983	Canon Racing GTi Engineering	Jonathan Palmer Richard Lloyd	Porsche 956	C	339	8th	8th
1984	GTi Engineering	Jonathan Palmer	Porsche 956	C1	239	DNF	DNF
1987	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Eddie Cheever Raul Boesel	Jaguar XJR-8LM	C1	325	5th	5th
1988	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Johnny Dumfries Andy Wallace	Jaguar XJR-9LM	C1	394	1st	1st
1989	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Patrick Tambay Andrew Gilbert-Scott	Jaguar XJR-9LM	C1	380	4th	4th
1990	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Andy Wallace Franz Konrad	Jaguar XJR-12	C1	355	2nd	2nd
1992	Toyota Team Tom's	Andy Wallace Teo Fabi	Toyota TS010	C1	331	8th	5th
1993	Toyota Team Tom's	Geoff Lees Juan Manuel Fangio II	Toyota TS010	C1	353	8th	5th
1996	Courage Compétition	Mario Andretti Derek Warwick	Courage C36-Porsche	LMP1	315	13th	3rd
1997	GT1 Lotus Racing	Mike Hezemans Alexander Grau	Lotus Elise GT1	GT1	121	DNF	DNF
1998	Nissan Motorsports TWR	Érik Comas Andrea Montermini	Nissan R390 GT1	GT1	342	6th	6th
1999	Konrad Motorsport Talkline Racing for Holland	Peter Kox Tom Coronel	Lola B98/10-Ford	LMP	213	DNF	DNF
2000	Konrad Motorsport Racing for Holland	Tom Coronel Peter Kox	Lola B2K/10-Ford	LMP900	38	DNF	DNF
2001	Racing for Holland	Donny Crevels Val Hillebrand	Dome S101-Judd	LMP900	156	DNF	DNF
2002	Racing for Holland	Tom Coronel Val Hillebrand	Dome S101-Judd	LMP900	351	9th	8th
2003	Racing for Holland	John Bosch Andy Wallace	Dome S101-Judd	LMP900	360	6th	4th
2004	Racing for Holland	Chris Dyson Katsutomo Kaneishi	Dome S101-Judd	LMP1	341	7th	6th
2005	Racing for Holland	Elton Julian John Bosch	Dome S101-Judd	LMP1	346	7th	5th
2006	Racing for Holland	Alex Yoong Stefan Johansson	Dome S101Hb-Judd	LMP1	182	DNF	DNF
2007	Racing for Holland	Jeroen Bleekemolen David Hart	Dome S101.5-Judd	LMP1	305	25th	8th
2008	Charouz Racing System Team Cytosport	Greg Pickett Klaus Graf	Lola B07/17-Judd	LMP1	146	DNF	DNF
2011	Hope Racing	Steve Zacchia Casper Elgaard	Oreca 01-Swiss HyTech	LMP1	115	DNF	DNF

PPG Indycar Series

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
1985	AMI Racing	March 85C	Ford Cosworth DFX	LBH	INDY	MIL	POR 16	MEA 12	CLE DNS	MCH	ROA	POC	MDO	SAN	MCH						26th	11
	Forsythe Racing	Lola T900														LAG 5	PHX 20	MIA 13
1986	All American Racers	Eagle 86GC	Ford Cosworth DFX	PHX 9	LBH 14	INDY DNQ	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	TOR	MCH	POC	MDO	SAN	MCH	ROA				22nd	13
	Machinists Union Racing																	LAG 8	PHX 23	MIA 9

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Points
1986	Jordan Racing	SIL	VAL	PAU	SPA	IMO	MUG	PER	ZEL	BIR	BUG 11	JAR	NC	0
1993	Il Barone Rampante	DON 9	SIL 9	PAU 10	PER 4	HOC 7	NÜR Ret	SPA	MAG	NOG			15th	3
1995	Vortex Motorsport	SIL 11	CAT 10	PAU 10	PER	HOC	SPA	EST	MAG				NC	0

Complete British Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	DC	Pts
1994	Volvo 850 Racing	Volvo 850 SE/GLT	THR 1 Ret	BRH 1 12	BRH 2 16	SNE 1 11	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 16	OUL 1 13	DON 1 14	DON 2 15	BRH 1 7	BRH 2 16	SIL 1 12	KNO 1 NC	KNO 2 12	OUL 1 7	BRH 1 9	BRH 2 5	SIL 1 16	SIL 2 17	DON 1 13	DON 2 16	15th	18

External links

• Jan Lammers' homepage

References

Preceded by: Piercarlo Ghinzani

European Formula Three Champion 1978

Succeeded by: Alain Prost

Preceded by: Joël Gouhier

Coupe d'Europe Renault 5 Turbo Champion 1983-1984

Succeeded by: Oscar Larrauri

Preceded by: Derek Bell Hans-Joachim Stuck Al Holbert

Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1988 with: Johnny Dumfries Andy Wallace

Succeeded by: Jochen Mass Manuel Reuter Stanley Dickens

Preceded by: Marco Zadra

FIA Sportscar Championship Champion 2002 with: Val Hillebrand

Succeeded by: Jan Lammers John Bosch

Preceded by: Jan Lammers Val Hillebrand

FIA Sportscar Championship Champion 2003 with: John Bosch

Succeeded by: None

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