Stanley Dickens

Clean C9; Winning cars from Stanley Dickens, Jochen Mass and Manuel Reuter in the 1989 Le Mans 24-hour race

Stanley Dickens (born May 7, 1952 in Färila ) is a former Swedish racing car driver and commercial artist.

Life

Stanley Dickens was born the son of a police officer in a small town in central Sweden. For professional reasons of his father, the family moved to Motala in southern Sweden in the mid-1960s . Motala is the hometown of the former Swedish Formula 1 driver Reine Wisell , who mentored the first motorsport activities of Dickens, who was eleven years his junior. Dickens himself trained as a commercial artist and founded an advertising agency in Sweden in the 1980s. Since the end of his racing career in 2001, the Swede has been working as a PR and marketing consultant for companies in Sweden and Great Britain. His passion for boats is reflected in a consultancy for a British manufacturer of pleasure boats.

Stanley Dickens is divorced and has three children, two sons and a daughter. Today he lives with his partner, the Swedish actress Angelica Roberts , in Monaco .

Racing career

He contested his first races together with his childhood friend Leif Lindström in the Swedish touring car championship. In 1985 he drove his first international races in the World Sports Car Championship alongside Norwegian Martin Schanche for the Swedish team Strandell Porsche. The duo's best placing was 13th in the 1000 km race at Silverstone . After a year at Gebhardt Motorsport and a second place overall in the Fuji 1000 km race , the Swede became a works driver for Joest Racing in 1987 . In the late 1980s he drove sports car races in Europe, Japan and the USA. In 1988 and 1989 he won the Suzuka 1000 km race .

In 1989 he celebrated his greatest success in international motorsport with overall victory in the Le Mans 24-hour race . In the 1990s, his racing activities became more sparse and after the 1000 km race in Monza in 2001 he retired from racing.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1986	Gebhardt Motorsport	Gebhardt JC853	Pierre de Thoisy	Jean-François Yvon	failure	accident
1987	Joest Racing	Porsche 962C	Hurley Haywood	Frank Jelinski	failure	Engine failure
1988	Blaupunkt Joest Racing	Porsche 962C	Louis Krages	Frank Jelinski	Rank 3
1989	Team Sauber Mercedes	Clean C9	Manuel Reuter	Jochen Mass	Overall victory
1990	Joest Porsche Racing	Porsche 962C	Louis Krages	Bob Wollek	Rank 8
1991	Team Sauber Mercedes	Mercedes-Benz C11	Jonathan Palmer	Kurt Thiim	failure	Engine failure
1996	Kremer Racing	Kremer K8 Spyder	George Fouché	Steve Fossett	failure	accident

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1991	Momo Gebhardt Racing	Porsche 962C	Hellmut Mundas	Giampiero Moretti	Rank 10
1995	Power Macintosh Racing	Spice HC93	Rick Sutherland	John Graham	Rank 10

Web links

Commons : Stanley Dickens  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Race results
• Official website