Stefan Johansson

Stefan Johansson

Nation:	Sweden
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	Great Britain Grand Prix 1983
Last start:	1991 Canadian Grand Prix
Constructors
1980  Shadow  • 1983  Spirit  • 1984  Tyrrell  • 1984  Toleman  • 1985–1986  Ferrari  • 1987  McLaren  • 1988  Ligier  • 1989–1990  Onyx  • 1991  AGS  • 1991 Footwork
statistics
World Cup balance:	World Cup fifth ( 1986 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 79 - - -
World Cup points :	88
Podiums :	12
Leadership laps :	3 over 18.9 km

Stefan Nils Edwin Johansson (born September 8, 1956 in Växjö ) is a former Swedish automobile racing driver . Between 1980 and 1991 he took part in a total of 79 Formula 1 Grand Prix races and drove for well-known teams such as Ferrari and McLaren , among others .

Monoposto

After winning the British Formula 3 Championship in 1979, Johansson was registered for the first time for a Formula 1 race at the 1980 Argentina Grand Prix on Shadow . However, he was unable to qualify for the race at this or his second Grand Prix in Brazil (in the same season). Johansson did not contest his first Grand Prix until 1983 at the Grand Prix of Great Britain .

Stefan Johansson in 1985 in the Ferrari 156/85 at the Nürburgring

Johansson achieved a total of 88 world championship points, his best results being four second places in 1985 at the Grand Prix of Canada and the USA in a Ferrari and in 1987 in the GP of Belgium and Germany in a McLaren- TAG - Porsche . Once Johansson narrowly missed out on a win when he ran out of gas with three laps to go at the 1985 San Marino Grand Prix . His best overall ranking was fifth in 1986 with Ferrari.

After a series of disappointments in the years 1989 to 1991 and numerous races for which Johansson could not qualify due to a lack of competitive material, he switched to the IndyCar World Series in 1992 with Tony Bettenhausen's team . He finished third at his first start in Detroit and won the Rookie of the Year Award at the end of the season . Johansson stayed in this racing series until the end of 1996, but did not win a race here either. In 1996 Johansson was involved in the collision with Jeff Krosnoff in Toronto , which cost both Krosnoff and a marshal their lives.

The Swede initially ended his active racing career, around 2007 on the establishment of a new racing series in the Middle East, the Speedcar Series to participate, where he in the 2007/2008 season on numerous former Formula 1 drivers like Jean Alesi , Heinz Harald Frentzen , Johnny Herbert , Gianni Morbidelli and Jacques Villeneuve .

Sports car

As early as 1983 , the Swede made his debut at the Le Mans 24-hour race for Reinhold Joest's team . Together with Bob Wollek and Klaus Ludwig , he reached fifth place in the overall ranking. After winning the sports car races in Mugello in 1983 and Spa-Francorchamps in 1988, Johansson celebrated his greatest successes in endurance races in 1997. With Joest Racing he won Le Mans and the 12-hour race at Sebring  - held a few weeks before the classic at the Sarthe - he drove a Ferrari 333SP to overall victory. Teammates there were Fermín Vélez , Andy Evans and Yannick Dalmas .

With the establishment of his own racing team, the Swede also entered the American Le Mans Series in the early 2000s . Up until 2008 he had competed a total of 14 times in Le Mans. With the Audi R8 , he achieved another top position in this race in 2003 with third place overall.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1983	Joest Racing	Porsche 956	Bob Wollek	Klaus Ludwig	Rank 6
1984	New-Man Joest Racing	Porsche 956	Jean-Louis Schlesser	Mauricio de Narváez	failure	Cylinder overheated
1990	Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd.	Mazda 787	Dave Kennedy	Pierre Dieudonné	failure	Leak in the oil tank
1991	Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd.	Mazda 787B	Dave Kennedy	Maurizio Sandro Sala	Rank 6
1992	Greedy Trust Racing Team	Toyota 92C-V	George Fouché	Steven Andskar	5th place and class win
1997	Joest Racing	TWR-Porsche WSC-95	Michele Alboreto	Tom Kristensen	Overall victory
1998	Joest Racing	Porsche LMP1	Michele Alboreto	Yannick Dalmas	failure	Electrics
1999	Audi UK Sport Ltd.	Audi R8C	Stéphane Ortelli	Christian Dept.	failure	differential
2000	Johansson-Matthews Racing	Reynard 2KQ	Guy Smith	Jim Matthews	failure	Engine failure
2001	Johansson Motorsport	Audi R8	Tom Coronel	Patrick Lemarié	failure	Electrics
2003	Champion Racing	Audi R8	Emanuele Pirro	JJ Lehto	3rd place and class win
2006	Racing for Holland	Dome S101Hb	Jan Lammers	Alex Yoong	failure	accident
2007	Courage Compétition	Courage LC70	Jean-Marc Gounon	Guillaume Moreau	failure	Engine failure
2008	Epsilon Euskadi	Epsilon Euskadi ee1	Jean-Marc Gounon	Shinji Nakano	failure	Power transmission
2012	Gulf Racing Middle East	Lola B12 / 80	Ludovic Badey	Fabien Giroix	failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1984	de Narváez Enterprises	Porsche 935J	Hans Heyer	Mauricio de Narváez		Overall victory
1997	Team Scandia	Ferrari 333SP	Yannick Dalmas	Andy Evans	Fermín Vélez	Overall victory
1999	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R8R	Michele Alboreto	Rinaldo Capello		Rank 3
2000	Johansson Matthews Racing	Reynard 2KQ	Guy Smith	Jim Matthews		failure	Engine failure
2001	Johansson Motorsport	Audi R8	Guy Smith			Rank 4
2002	Champion Racing	Audi R8	Andy Wallace	Jan Lammers		Rank 2
2003	Champion Racing	Audi R8	Emanuele Pirro	JJ Lehto		Rank 2
2007	Highcroft Racing	Acura ARX-01a	David Brabham	Duncan Dayton		Rank 6
2008	Patron Highcroft Racing	Acura ARX-01b	David Brabham	Scott Sharp		Rank 5
2013	BAR1 Motorsports	Oreca FLM09	Kyle Marcelli	Chris Cumming		Rank 10

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1982	GS tuning	Clean SHS C6	MON	SIL	ONLY	LEM	SPA	MUG	FUJ	BRH
										DNF
1983	Joest Racing Kremer Racing	Porsche 956	MON	SIL	ONLY	LEM	SPA	FUJ	KYA
				2	2	6th	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF
1984	Joest Racing	Porsche 956	MON	SIL	LEM	ONLY	BRH	MOS	SPA	IMO	FUJ	KYA	SAN
			DNF		DNF	8th			DNF		4th
1988	Sauber motorsport	Clean C9	JER	JAR	MON	SIL	LEM	BRÜ	BRH	ONLY	SPA	FUJ	SAN
										DNF	1	21st	2
1991	Konrad Motorsport Mazdaspeed	Porsche 962 Mazda 787 Konrad KM-011	SUZ	MON	SIL	LEM	ONLY	LIKE	MEX	AUT
				DNF		6th		DNF	DNF	DNF
1992	Euro Racing Trust Racing	Lola T92 / 10 Toyota 92C-V	MON	SIL	LEM	DON	SUZ	LIKE
				DNF	5

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who, 3rd Edition . Travel Publishing, London 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8

Web links

Commons : Stefan Johansson  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stefan Johansson at Racing Sports Cars