Jan Magnussen

Jan Magnussen Born (1973-07-04) 4 July 1973 Roskilde, Denmark Formula One World Championship career Nationality Danish Active years 1995, 1997–1998 Teams McLaren, Stewart Races 25 Championships 0 Wins 0 Podiums 0 Career points 1 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 First race 1995 Pacific Grand Prix Last race 1998 Canadian Grand Prix NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career 1 race(s) run over 1 year(s) Car no., team No. 98 (Curb Motorsports) Best finish 63rd - 2010 First race 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350 (Sears Point) Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0 24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 1999 - Teams Panoz, Audi Sport Japan Team Goh, Corvette Racing Best finish 4th (2003), (2006) Class wins 4 (2004, 2005, 2006, 2009) Champ Car career 11 race(s) run over 2 year(s) Team(s) Marlboro Team Penske (1996) Hogan Penske Racing (1996) Patrick Racing (1999) Best finish 24th - 1996, 1999 First race 1996 Miller 200 (Mid-Ohio) Last race 1999 Honda Indy 300 (Surfers Paradise) Wins Podiums Poles 0 0 0 Statistics current as of June 5, 2012.

Jan Magnussen (born 4 July 1973 in Roskilde) is a racing driver from Denmark and a GM factory driver. He has competed in several of the most prestigious events in motor sport including CART, NASCAR, the FIA Formula One World Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Career history

Lower series racing

Magnussen dominated the 1994 British Formula Three championship with Paul Stewart Racing, winning 14 of the 18 events and breaking Ayrton Senna's F3 record. Magnussen scored his first British F3 win that April at Donington Park, also taking pole for the race. He also won at Brands Hatch, twice at Silverstone, and at Thruxton. He won six of the first eight races. He then won again at Donington Park, and both season-ending rounds at Silverstone.

Major series racing

His F1 debut was a one-off for McLaren, but he returned to the series full-time in 1997 and part of 1998.

He has qualified for 25 Formula One grands prix, debuting on 22 October 1995 in the Pacific Grand Prix in Aida, sitting in for the unwell Mika Häkkinen. He has actually only raced in 24 GPs, because his car was damaged in an accident during the start of the 1997 Brazilian GP causing Magnussen to retire before the restart.

In 1996 Magnussen drove in the CART series and International Touring Car Championship.

For 1997-1998 he had a seat in Formula One with the Stewart-Ford team, owned in part by his old F3 boss Paul Stewart. Team founder Jackie Stewart once described him as the best prospect since Ayrton Senna, so his failure to succeed was embarrassing for the team. He scored a total of one championship point (in his last race in F1, the 1998 Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal). He was replaced by Jos Verstappen for the rest of the 1998 season.

In 1998 he participated in 7 CART races and one ALMS race. In 1999 and 2000 he raced in ALMS with Panoz. 2001 he drove a Peugeot in Danish Touring Car series (DTC) and raced in 8 ALMS races. 2002 he also raced for Peugeot in DTC and in 10 ALMS races.

Magnussen has participated in various classes in the 24 hours of Le Mans every year since 1999. His best results so far are the victories in the GTS class in 2004 and GT1 class in 2005, 2006, and 2009, each time in a Chevrolet Corvette with Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta as team mates in 2005 and 2006, and Johnny O'Connell and Antonio García in 2009.

Also, Magnussen has participated in the 12 Hours of Sebring every year since 1999, winning the GT1 class in 2006, 2008, and 2009.

In 2005, Magnussen drove a Toyota Corolla in the Danish Touring Car Championship.

Present day

Magnussen is still an active driver, now in the Danish Touring Car Championship (DTC) and in a Chevrolet Corvette C6.R in the American Le Mans Series with Oliver Gavin as team mate – and of course in the 24 hours of Le Mans. In the Danish Touring Car series he drives a Chevrolet Lacetti for Perfection Racing. He has won the DTC on two occasions in 2003 and 2008.

On June 11, 2010, it was announced that Magnussen would make his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut driving the #09 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet for Phoenix Racing at Infineon Raceway. After starting 32nd on the grid, he finished in 12th position.

On June 14, 2010 it became public that Jan Magnussen and Perfection Racing would not be participating in the DTC leaving Magnussen and the team to focus on the Scandinavian Touring Car Cup's remaining two rounds.

2011 Rolex Sports Car

Magnussen drove the No. 57 Stevenson Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro with Robin Liddell and Andrew Davis in the 2010 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series season opener, the Rolex 24 At Daytona. Following the Rolex 24, he moved to the team's No. 97 car and competed in the majority of the races with Gunter Schaldach. Finished 24th in GT points and his best finish was second (Miller) with four top-10s.

Family

Magnussen's oldest son, Kevin Magnussen is also a racing driver, who is currently driving in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series. He is currently signed to McLaren's Young Driver Programme, and will take part in the German F3 championship in 2010. Kevin made a guest appearance in the F3 EuroSeries and won the second of the two races at Valencia.

Racing career results

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	WDC	Points
1995	Marlboro McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4/10B	Mercedes V10	BRA	ARG	SMR	ESP	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	EUR	PAC 10	JPN	AUS	NC	0
1997	HSBC Malaysia Stewart Ford	Stewart SF01	Ford VJ Zetec-R 3.0 V10	AUS Ret	BRA Ret	ARG 10†	SMR Ret	MON 7	ESP 13	CAN Ret	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER Ret	HUN Ret	BEL 12	ITA Ret	AUT Ret	LUX Ret	JPN Ret	EUR 9	NC	0
1998	HSBC Stewart Ford	Stewart SF02	Ford VJ Zetec-R 3.0 V10	AUS Ret	BRA 10	ARG Ret	SMR Ret	ESP 12	MON Ret	CAN 6	FRA	GBR	AUT	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	LUX	JPN		17th	1

^† Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as they had completed over 90% of the race distance.

American Open-Wheel

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

Champ Car

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Rank	Points
1996	Hogan Penske	MIA	RIO	SRF	LBH	NZR	MIS1	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MIS2	MDO 14	ROA Ret	VAN 22	LS 8					24th	5
1999	Patrick Racing	MIA	MOT	LBH	NZR	RIO	STL	MIL	POR	CLE	ROA	TOR	MIS	DET Ret	MDO 14	CHI Ret	VAN 7	LS Ret	HOU 13	SRF 11	FON	24th	8

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1999	Panoz Motorsports	Johnny O'Connell Max Angelelli	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-Ford	LMP	323	11th	9th
2000	Panoz Motorsports	David Brabham Mario Andretti	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-Élan	LMP900	315	15th	8th
2001	Panoz Motorsports	David Brabham Franck Lagorce	Panoz LMP07-Élan	LMP900	85	DNF	DNF
2002	Panoz Motor Sports	David Brabham Bryan Herta	Panoz LMP01 Evo-Élan	LMP900	90	DNF	DNF
2003	Audi Sport Japan Team Goh	Seiji Ara Marco Werner	Audi R8	LMP900	370	4th	2nd
2004	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Olivier Beretta	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	GTS	345	6th	1st
2005	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Olivier Beretta	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	349	5th	1st
2006	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Olivier Beretta	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	355	4th	1st
2007	Corvette Racing	Johnny O'Connell Ron Fellows	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	342	6th	2nd
2008	Corvette Racing	Johnny O'Connell Ron Fellows	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	344	14th	2nd
2009	Corvette Racing	Johnny O'Connell Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	342	15th	1st
2010	Corvette Racing	Johnny O'Connell Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT2	225	DNF	DNF
2011	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Richard Westbrook	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GTE Pro	211	DNF	DNF
2012	Corvette Racing	Antonio García Jordan Taylor	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GTE Pro	326	23rd	5th

Complete V8 Supercar results

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	Final Pos	Points
2003	Team Dynamik	ADL	PHI	ECK	WIN	PTH	HDV	QLD	ORP	SAN WD †	BAT 11	SUR	PUK	ECK																	NC	152
2011	Paul Morris Motorsport	YMC R1	YMC R2	ADE R3	ADE R4	HAM R5	HAM R6	PER R7	PER R8	PER R9	WIN R10	WIN R11	HDV R12	HDV R13	TOW R14	TOW R15	QLD R16	QLD R17	QLD R18	PHI Q	PHI R19	BAT R20	SUR R21 22	SUR R22 8	SYM R23	SYM R24	SAN R25	SAN R26	SYD R27	SYD R28	67th	129

† Withdrew due to licence problems

Complete World 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	DC	Points
2006	BMW Team UK	BMW 320si	ITA 1	ITA 2	FRA 1	FRA 2	GBR 1	GBR 2	GER 1	GER 2	BRA 1	BRA 2	MEX 1	MEX 2	CZE 1	CZE 2	TUR 1	TUR 2	ESP 1	ESP 2	MAC 1 Ret	MAC 2 Ret	NC	0

External links

• Official website
• Jan Magnussen driver statistics at Racing Reference
• Jan Magnussen at Driver Database
• Jan Magnussen taking off with a Chevrolet Corvette C6 at the Nürburgring to qualify for Nordschleife fastest lap times
• Corvette C5-R at Le Mans 2004

Sporting positions
Preceded by Marc Goossens	Formula Ford Festival Winner 1992	Succeeded by Russell Ingall
Preceded by Kelvin Burt	British Formula Three Champion 1994	Succeeded by Oliver Gavin
Preceded by Jason Watt	Danish Touring Car Champion 2003	Succeeded by Casper Elgaard
Preceded by Michel Nykjaer	Danish Touring Car Champion 2008	Succeeded by Michel Nykjær