Jan Magnussen

Jan Magnussen

Nation:	Denmark
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1995 Pacific Grand Prix
Last start:	1998 Canadian Grand Prix
Constructors
1995 McLaren 1997-1998 Stewart
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-17. ( 1998 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 25th - - -
World Cup points :	1
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Jan Ellegaard Magnussen (born July 4, 1973 in Roskilde ) is a Danish automobile racing driver . From 1995 to 1998 he contested 25 races in the Formula 1 World Championship for the McLaren and Stewart teams and was able to achieve a championship point. After the end of his Formula 1 career, he successfully competed in touring car and sports car races . In 2014 he competed for Corvette Racing in the United SportsCar Championship .

He is the father of Kevin Magnussen , who also made his Formula 1 debut for McLaren in 2014 .

Career

Karting

Magnussen started karting at the age of eleven and won his first national title in the second year of his career. In 1987, shortly after his 14th birthday, he became world kart champion . This makes him one of the youngest drivers to win this title. In 1989 and 1990 he repeated this success, last year in the Formula K . In total, he won three world titles.

Formula racing

Magnussen made his debut in motorsport for Monoposto at Jyllandsringen in Denmark in Formula Ford . In 1992 he won seven of 19 races in the British Formula Ford 1160 and finished the season in third place. He also won the Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch . This led to his entry into Formula Vauxhall Lotus , where he won four races before finishing the 1993 season on the team of Paul Stewart , son of the famous Jackie Stewart .

In 1994 Magnussen dominated the British Formula 3 Championship . He won 14 of 18 races and completed his first Formula 1 test at McLaren , where he was then hired as a Formula 1 test driver. In 1995 Magnussen drove in the DTM / ITC and took part in a Formula 1 race for McLaren for the first time as a substitute driver for Mika Häkkinen . In 1996 he continued to drive in the ITC and had a few guest starts in the Champ Car series as a replacement for Emerson Fittipaldi, who resigned at short notice after an accident . In 1997 and 1998 he was a regular driver alongside Rubens Barrichello at the Stewart Grand Prix . In 1998 he won his first and only world championship point at the Canadian Grand Prix , but was then replaced by the Dutchman Jos Verstappen .

Sports car sport

In 1999 Magnussen made his debut in sports car racing. He started in the Panoz LMP-1 in the American Le Mans Series and also took part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans . From 1999 to 2002 he was always able to achieve at least one overall victory in the ALMS, and in Le Mans the best result was eighth place in the LMP900 class in 2000.

In 2003, after the end of the Panoz sports car program, he drove in a Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello for Prodrive in the ALMS and achieved two victories in the GTS class. In Le Mans he drove an Audi R8 from the Audi Sport Japan Team Goh team and came fourth.

From 2004 Magnussen started for Corvette Racing in the ALMS and in Le Mans. Initially, he only contested the long-distance races (Le Mans, Sebring 12 Hours , Petit Le Mans ), in 2008 he became a regular driver for the works team. Since then he has celebrated four class wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and achieved his best overall ranking with fourth place in 2006 . In 2008 he won the driver's title in the GT1 class in the ALMS .

After the end of the ALMS, he competed in the successor series United SportsCar Championship in 2014 , also for Corvette Racing . At the end of the 2019 racing season, the 16-year collaboration between Corvette Racing and Jan Magnussen came to an end.

Touring car sport

From 2001 to 2010 Magnussen drove in the Danish Touring Car Championship , where he won the championship title in 2003 and 2008. After initially driving a Peugeot 306 and later a Peugeot 307 , he switched to a Toyota Corolla in 2005 . From 2006 he drove a BMW 320si for the Den Blå Avis team , and in 2006 he made a guest start in the World Touring Car Championship for Racing Bart Mampaey . In 2010 he started in a Chevrolet Lacetti for the Danish Perfection Racing team .

statistics

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1995	Marlboro McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4 / 10B	Mercedes-Benz 3.0 V10	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	30th
1997	Stewart Ford	Stewart SF01	Ford Zetec-R 3.0 V10	17th	-	-	-	-	-	-	20th
1998	Stewart Ford	Stewart SF2	Ford Zetec-R 3.0 V10	7th	-	-	-	-	-	1	17th
total				25th	-	-	-	-	-	1

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th
1995
															10
1997
	DNF	DNF	10	DNF	7th	13	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	12	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	9
1998
	DNF	10	DNF	DNF	12	DNF	6th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1999	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S	Johnny O'Connell	Max Angelelli	Rank 11
2000	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S	David Brabham	Mario Andretti	Rank 15
2001	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz LMP07	David Brabham	Franck Lagorce	failure	Gearbox damage
2002	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz LMP01 Evo	David Brabham	Bryan Herta	failure	Engine failure
2003	Audi Sport Japan Team Goh	Audi R8	Seiji Ara	Marco Werner	Rank 4
2004	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	Oliver Gavin	Olivier Beretta	Rank 6 and class win
2005	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Olivier Beretta	5th place and class win
2006	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Olivier Beretta	4th place and class win
2007	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Johnny O'Connell	Ron Fellows	Rank 6
2008	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Johnny O'Connell	Ron Fellows	Rank 14
2009	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Johnny O'Connell	Antonio García	15th place and class win
2010	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1	Johnny O'Connell	Antonio García	failure	Engine failure
2011	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Richard Westbrook	failure	accident
2012	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Jordan Taylor	Antonio García	Rank 23
2013	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R-ZR1	Jordan Taylor	Antonio García	Rank 20
2014	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Jordan Taylor	Antonio García	Rank 14
2016	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Ricky Taylor	Antonio García	Rank 25
2017	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Jordan Taylor	Antonio García	Rank 19
2018	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Mike Rockenfeller	Antonio García	Rank 18
2019	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Mike Rockenfeller	Antonio García	Rank 28

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1999	Panoz Racing	Panoz Esperante GTR-1	Johnny O'Connell	John Nielsen	failure	accident
2000	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster S.	David Brabham	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	failure	Engine failure
2001	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz LMP07	David Brabham		failure	Clutch damage
2002	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz LMP01	David Brabham	Eric van de Poele	failure	Engine failure
2003	Jim Matthews Racing	Riley & Scott Mk IIIC	Marc Goossens	Jim Matthews	failure	suspension
2004	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	Oliver Gavin	Olivier Beretta	failure	Clutch damage
2005	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Olivier Beretta	Rank 6
2006	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Oliver Gavin	Olivier Beretta	3rd place and class win
2007	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Johnny O'Connell	Ron Fellows	Rank 8
2008	Chevrolet Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Johnny O'Connell	Ron Fellows	Rank 8 and class win
2009	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Johnny O'Connell	Antonio García	5th place and class win
2010	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Johnny O'Connell	Antonio García	Rank 15
2011	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6-ZR1	Oliver Gavin	Richard Westbrook	Rank 14
2012	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1	Jordan Taylor	Antonio García	Rank 18
2013	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Jordan Taylor	Antonio García	failure	malfunction
2014	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Ryan Briscoe	Antonio García	Rank 19
2015	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Ryan Briscoe	Antonio García	Rank 10 and class win
2016	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Mike Rockenfeller	Antonio García	Rank 38
2017	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Mike Rockenfeller	Antonio García	Rank 7 and class win
2018	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Mike Rockenfeller	Antonio García	Rank 35
2019	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Mike Rockenfeller	Antonio García	Rank 12

Web links

Commons : Jan Magnussen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jan Magnussen at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ End of the collaboration with Corvette REacing
2. ↑ 24 Hours of Le Mans 1999
3. ↑ 24 Hours of Le Mans 2000
4. ↑ 24 Hours of Le Mans 2001
5. ↑ 24 Hours of Le Mans 2002
6. ↑ 24 Hours of Le Mans 2003
7. ↑ 24 Hours of Le Mans 2004
8. ↑ 24 Hours of Le Mans 2005
9. ↑ 24 Hours of Le Mans 2006
10. ↑ 24 Hours of Le Mans 2007
11. ↑ 24 Hours of Le Mans 2008
12. ↑ 24 Hours of Le Mans 2009
13. ↑ '# 63 Corvette suffers engine failure' (Autosport.com on June 13, 2010)