Jan Lammers

For the Dutch sprinter, see Jan Lammers (athlete).

Jan Lammers

Jan Lammers at the 2011 Le Mans 24 Hours Drivers' Parade
Born	2 June 1956 (1956-06-02)
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Dutch
Active years	1979 - 1982, 1992
Teams	Shadow, ATS, Ensign, Theodore and March
Races	41 (23 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1979 Argentine Grand Prix
Last race	1992 Australian Grand Prix

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	1983 - 1984, 1987 - 1990, 1992 - 1993, 1998 - 2008, 2011
Teams	Richard Lloyd Racing, GTi Engineering, Tom Walkinshaw Racing, Toyota Team Tom's, Racing for Holland, Hope Racing
Best finish	1st (1988)
Class wins	1 (1988)

Johannes "Jan" Lammers, (born June 2, 1956 in Zandvoort), is a racing driver and team principal from the Netherlands. He participated in 41 Formula One Grand Prix races, debuting on January 21, 1979. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1988 and later participated in the race with his own team Racing for Holland. Also, Jan Lammers was the seatholder of the Dutch A1 Grand Prix team.

Early years

Lammers starts in 1977 in the European Formula 3 Championship, but he didn't get good results with his Hawke. Lammers won the 1978 European Formula 3 Championship with Racing Team Holland.

Formula 1

Lammers began his Formula One with Shadow in 1979 with Elio de Angelis as his teammate. He didn't have a great debut as de Angelis was the team's number one driver. His best result was a ninth place in Canada. 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. In 1992, Lammers made a two-race comeback in F1 for March, his first F1 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 as well, but they went bankrupt before the season started.

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.

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	Samson Shadow Racing Team	Shadow DN9	Ford 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 V8	ARG DNQ	BRA DNQ	RSA DNQ														NC	0
		ATS D4	Ford V8				USW Ret	BEL 12	MON NC
	Unipart Racing Team	Ensign N180	Ford V8							FRA DNQ	GBR DNQ	GER 14	AUT DNQ	NED DNQ	ITA DNQ	CAN 12	USA Ret
1981	Team ATS	ATS D4	Ford V8	USW Ret	BRA DNQ	ARG 12														NC	0
		ATS HGS	Ford V8				SMR DNQ	BEL	MON	ESP	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	CAN	CPL
1982	Theodore Racing Team	Theodore TY02	Ford 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 V10	RSA	MEX	BRA	ESP	SMR	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN Ret	AUS 12	NC	0

Non-Championship Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1
1980	Team ATS	ATS D4	Ford V8	ESP Ret
1981	Team ATS	ATS HGS	Ford V8	RSA Ret

CART results

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
1985	Forsythe	LBG	INDY	MIL	POR Ret	MEA 12	CLE DNS	MCH	ROA	POC	MDO	SAN	MIS	LAG 5	PHX Ret	MIA Ret			26th	11
1986	Curb/Machinists Union	PHX 9	LBG Ret	INDY DNQ	MIL	POR	MEA	CLE	TOR	MIS	POC	MDO	SAN	MIS	ROA	LAG 8	PHX Ret	MIA 9	22nd	13

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	-	0
1993	Il Barone Rampante	DON 9	SIL 9	PAU 10	PER 4	HOC 7	NÜR Ret	SPA	MAG	NOG			15th	3
1995	Vortex	SIL 11	CAT 10	PAU 10	PER	HOC	SPA	EST	MAG				-	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	Position	Points
1994	Volvo 850 Racing	Volvo 850 SE/GLT	THR Ret	BHI 1 12	BHI 2 16	SNE 11	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 16	OUL 13	DON 1 14	DON 2 15	BHGP 1 7	BHGP 2 16	SIL 12	KNO 1 NC	KNO 2 12	OUL 7	BHI 1 9	BHI 2 5	SIL 1 16	SIL 2 17	DON 1 13	DON 2 16	15th	18

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1983	C	14	?	Porsche 956 Porsche Type-935 2.6L Turbo Flat-6	Canon Racing GTi Engineering	Jonathan Palmer Richard Lloyd	339	8th	8th
1984	C1	14	D	Porsche 956 Porsche Type-935 2.6L Turbo Flat-6	GTi Engineering	Jonathan Palmer	239	DNF	DNF
1987	C1	4	D	Jaguar XJR-8LM Jaguar 6.9L V12	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Eddie Cheever Raul Boesel	325	5th	5th
1988	C1	2	D	Jaguar XJR-9LM Jaguar 7.0L V12	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Johnny Dumfries Andy Wallace	394	1st	1st
1989	C1	1	D	Jaguar XJR-9LM Jaguar 7.0L V12	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Patrick Tambay Andrew Gilbert-Scott	380	4th	4th
1990	C1	2	G	Jaguar XJR-12 Jaguar 7.0L V12	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Andy Wallace Franz Konrad	355	2nd	2nd
1992	C1	8	G	Toyota TS010 Toyota RV10 3.5L V10	Toyota Team Tom's	Andy Wallace Teo Fabi	331	8th	5th
1993	C1	38	M	Toyota TS010 Toyota RV10 3.5L V10	Toyota Team Tom's	Geoff Lees Juan Manuel Fangio II	353	8th	5th
1996	LMP1	4	M	Courage C36 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	Courage Compétition	Mario Andretti Derek Warwick	315	13th	3rd
1997	GT1	49	M	Lotus Elise GT1 Chevrolet LT5 6.0L V8	GT1 Lotus Racing	Mike Hezemans Alexander Grau	121	DNF	DNF
1998	GT1	31	B	Nissan R390 GT1 Nissan VRH35L 3.5L Turbo V8	Nissan Motorsports TWR	Érik Comas Andrea Montermini	342	6th	6th
1999	LMP	26	D	Lola B98/10 Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8	Konrad Motorsport Talkline Racing for Holland	Peter Kox Tom Coronel	213	DNF	DNF
2000	LMP900	20	D	Lola B2K/10 Ford (Roush) 6.0L V8	Konrad Motorsport Racing for Holland	Tom Coronel Peter Kox	38	DNF	DNF
2001	LMP900	9	M	Dome S101 Judd GV4 4.0L V10	Racing for Holland	Donny Crevels Val Hillebrand	156	DNF	DNF
2002	LMP900	16	M	Dome S101 Judd GV4 4.0L V10	Racing for Holland B.V.	Tom Coronel Val Hillebrand	351	9th	8th
2003	LMP900	15	M	Dome S101 Judd GV4 4.0L V10	Racing for Holland	John Bosch Andy Wallace	360	6th	4th
2004	LMP1	15	D	Dome S101 Judd GV4 4.0L V10	Racing for Holland	Chris Dyson Katsutomo Kaneishi	341	7th	6th
2005	LMP1	10	D	Dome S101 Judd GV4 4.0L V10	Racing for Holland	Elton Julian John Bosch	346	7th	5th
2006	LMP1	14	D	Dome S101Hb Judd GV5 5.0L V10	Racing for Holland	Alex Yoong Stefan Johansson	182	DNF	DNF
2007	LMP1	14	M	Dome S101.5 Judd GV5.5 S2 5.5L V10	Racing for Holland b.v.	Jeroen Bleekemolen David Hart	305	25th	8th
2008	LMP1	12	M	Lola B07/17 Judd GV5.5 S2 5.5L V10	Charouz Racing System Team Cytosport	Greg Pickett Klaus Graf	146	DNF	DNF
2011	LMP1	5	M	Oreca 01 Swiss HyTech 2.0L Turbo I4 (Flybrid)	Hope Racing	Steve Zacchia Casper Elgaard	115	DNF	DNF

External links

• Jan Lammers' homepage

References

Sporting positions
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