Jan Magnussen

Jan Ellegaard Magnussen[1] (born 4 July 1973) is a Danish professional racing driver and a factory driver for General Motors. He has competed in Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART), NASCAR, the FIA Formula One World Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Jan Magnussen
Magnussen, January 2009
Nationality	Danish
Born	Jan Ellegaard Magnussen (1973-07-04) 4 July 1973 Roskilde, Denmark
Formula One World Championship career Active years 1995, 1997–1998 Teams McLaren, Stewart Entries 25 (24 starts) Championships 0 Wins 0 Podiums 0 Career points 1 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 First entry 1995 Pacific Grand Prix Last entry 1998 Canadian Grand Prix
NASCAR Cup Series career 1 race run over 1 year Best finish 63rd (2010) First race 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350 (Infineon Raceway) Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
24 Hours of Le Mans career Years 1999 – Starts as of 2018: 20 races 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 races run over 2 years 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 5 June 2012.

Career history

Lower series racing

Born in Roskilde, Magnussen dominated the 1994 British Formula 3 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.[2] He also won at Brands Hatch, twice at Silverstone, and at Thruxton. He won six of the first eight races.[3] He then won again at Donington Park,[4] and both season-ending rounds at Silverstone.[5]

Major series racing

He made his Formula One debut at the 1995 Pacific Grand Prix in Aida, sitting in for Mika Häkkinen, who was unwell. 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 newly founded Stewart Grand Prix team, owned in part by his old F3 boss Paul Stewart. Team founder Jackie Stewart once described him as "the most talented young driver to emerge since Ayrton Senna",[6] but his performance was underwhelming. He scored his only championship point in his last race in F1, the 1998 Canadian Grand Prix; for the rest of the season he was replaced by Jos Verstappen. Magnussen started 24 GPs, one less than he entered, because his car was damaged in an accident during the start of the 1997 Brazilian Grand Prix causing him to retire before the restart.

In 1999 he participated in 7 CART races. In 1999 and 2000 he raced in the American Le Mans Series 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. Jan Magnussen won the 2008 GT1 and 2013 GT drivers' championships, both with Corvette Racing.

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 teammates 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 was still an active driver, competing in the Danish Touring Car Championship (DTC) until 2010 and in a Chevrolet Corvette C7.R in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with Antonio Garcia as teammate until 2019 – and in the 24 hours of Le Mans. In the Danish Touring Car series he drove a Chevrolet Lacetti for Perfection Racing. He won the DTC in 2003 and 2008.

On 11 June 2010, it was announced that Magnussen would make his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut driving the No. 09 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet for Phoenix Racing at Infineon Raceway. After starting 32nd on the grid, he finished in 12th position.[7]

On 14 June 2010 it was announced that 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.[8]

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. Magnussen finished 24th in GT points and his best finish was second (Miller) with four top-10s.[9]

On 7 November 2019, Magnussen was confirmed to drive in the inaugural TCR Denmark Touring Car Series for LM Racing in a VW Golf GTI TCR.[10]

Family

Magnussen's eldest son Kevin is also a racing driver, having raced in Formula 1 for McLaren,[11] Renault and Haas F1.[12] Kevin mentioned that his father was his first hero when he was a child.[13]

Motorsports career results

Formula One

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Formula One results
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 FO 110 3.0 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 DNS	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 he had completed over 90% of the race distance.

Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft

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Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft results
Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Pts
1995	AMG-Mercedes	Mercedes C-Class V6	HOC 1 4	HOC 2 Ret	AVU 1 Ret	AVU 2 7	NOR 1 DNS	NOR 2 DNS	DIE 1 14	DIE 2 5	NÜR 1 Ret	NÜR 2 7	ALE 1 4	ALE 2 2	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 9	8th	49

International Touring Car Championship

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International Touring Car Championship results
Year	Team	Car	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	Pos.	Pts
1995	AMG-Mercedes	Mercedes C-Class V6	MUG 1 3	MUG 2 6	HEL 1 Ret	HEL 2 2	DON 1	DON 2	EST 1 2	EST 2 1	MAG 1 2	MAG 2 11																	2nd	83
1996	Warsteiner Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes C-Class	HOC 1 2	HOC 2 1	NÜR 1 7	NÜR 2 3	EST 1 Ret	EST 2 Ret	HEL 1 Ret	HEL 2 DNS	NOR 1 17†	NOR 2 DNS	DIE 1 16	DIE 2 Ret	SIL 1	SIL 2	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	MAG 1 Ret	MAG 2 Ret	MUG 1 Ret	MUG 2 5	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 4	INT 1 14	INT 2 3	SUZ 1 7	SUZ 2 3	10th	97

† – Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

American open-wheel racing results

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

CART

Champ Car results
Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Rank	Points
1996	Team Penske	Penske PC-25	Mercedes-Benz IC108C	MIA	RIO	SRF	LBH	NZR	500	MIL	DET	POR	CLE	TOR	MIS	MDO 14								24th	5
	Hogan Penske																ROA Ret	VAN 22	LS 8
1999	Patrick Racing	Swift 010.c	Ford XD	MIA	MOT	LBH	NZR	RIO	STL	MIL	POR	CLE	ROA	TOR	MIS	DET Ret								24th	8
		Reynard 99i															MDO 14	CHI Ret	VAN 7	LS Ret	HOU 13	SRF 11	FON

24 Hours of Le Mans

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
2013	Corvette Racing	Antonio García Jordan Taylor	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GTE Pro	312	19th	4th
2014	Corvette Racing	Antonio García Jordan Taylor	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	GTE Pro	338	14th	2nd
2015	Corvette Racing	Antonio García Ryan Briscoe	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	GTE Pro	0	DNS	DNS
2016	Corvette Racing - GM	Antonio García Ricky Taylor	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	GTE Pro	336	25th	7th
2017	Corvette Racing - GM	Antonio García Jordan Taylor	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	GTE Pro	340	19th	3rd
2018	Corvette Racing - GM	Antonio García Mike Rockenfeller	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	GTE Pro	342	18th	4th
2019	Corvette Racing	Antonio García Mike Rockenfeller	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	GTE Pro	337	28th	8th

24 Hours of Daytona

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24 Hours of Daytona results
Year	Class	Team	Car	Co-drivers	Laps	Position	Class Pos.
2005	DP	Doran Racing	Pontiac-Doran	Bobby Labonte Bryan Herta Terry Labonte	675	9 ^DNF	9 ^DNF
2006	GT	The Racer's Group	Pontiac GTO.R	Paul Edwards Kelly Collins Andy Pilgrim	633	26	13
2007	DP	SunTrust Racing	Pontiac Riley DP	Wayne Taylor Max Angelelli Jeff Gordon	666	3	3
2008	GT	Banner Racing	Pontiac GXP.R	Paul Edwards Kelly Collins	647	17	7
2009	GT	Banner Racing	Pontiac GXP.R	Paul Edwards Kelly Collins	689	12	4
2010	GT	Stevenson Motorsports	Chevy Camaro GT.R	Robin Liddell Andrew Davis	683	11	4
2011	GT	Stevenson Motorsports	Chevy Camaro GT.R	Robin Liddell Ronnie Bremer	629	26	12
2012	DP	Spirit of Daytona Racing	Corvette DP	Antonio García Oliver Gavin Richard Westbrook	629	8	8
2013	GT	Stevenson Motorsports	Chevy Camaro GT.R	John Edwards Robin Liddell Tommy Milner	595	36 ^DNF	23 ^DNF
2014	GTLM	Corvette Racing	Chevy Corvette C7.R	Antonio García Ryan Briscoe	329	60 ^DNF	10 ^DNF
2015	GTLM	Corvette Racing	Chevy Corvette C7.R	Antonio García Ryan Briscoe	725	4	1
2016	GTLM	Corvette Racing	Chevy Corvette C7.R	Antonio García Mike Rockenfeller	722	8	2
2017	GTLM	Corvette Racing	Chevy Corvette C7.R	Antonio García Mike Rockenfeller	652	8	4
2018	GTLM	Corvette Racing	Chevy Corvette C7.R	Antonio García Mike Rockenfeller	781	13	3
2019	GTLM	Corvette Racing	Chevy Corvette C7.R	Antonio García Mike Rockenfeller	563	16	6

Supercars Championship

Australian Supercars 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

European Touring Car Championship

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European Touring Car Championship results
Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Pts
2004	Peugeot Sport Engineering	Peugeot 307 Gti	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	VAL 1 11	VAL 2 Ret	MAG 1 19†	MAG 2 18†	HOC 1 10	HOC 2 12	BRN 1 15	BRN 2 Ret	DON 1 19	DON 2 Ret	SPA 1 17	SPA 2 18	IMO 1	IMO 2	OSC 1	OSC 2	DUB 1 12	DUB 2 DNS	NC	0

Bathurst 1000 results

Year	Team	Car	Co-driver	Position	Laps
2003	Team Dynamik	Holden Commodore VY	Nicolas Minassian	11th	158

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

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

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos.	Points
2014	Corvette Racing	GTLM	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Chevrolet 5.5L V8	DAY 10	SEB 8	LBH 1	LGA 1	WGL 1	MOS 1	IMS 4	ROA 6	VIR 7†	COA 9	PET 8	9th	293
2015	Corvette Racing	GTLM	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Chevrolet 5.5L V8	DAY 1	SEB 1	LBH 3	LGA 7	WGL 4	MOS 3	ROA 4	VIR 6	COA 6	PET 6		3rd	295
2016	Corvette Racing	GTLM	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Chevrolet 5.5 L V8	DAY 2	SEB 9	LBH 9	LGA 4	WGL 7	MOS 3	LRP 2	ROA 6	VIR 1	COA 3	PET 4	3rd	319
2017	Corvette Racing	GTLM	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Chevrolet 5.5 L V8	DAY 4	SEB 1	LBH 5	COA 1	WGL 3	MOS 4	LRP 4	ROA 4	VIR 1	LGA 4	PET 2	1st	334
2018	Corvette Racing	GTLM	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8	DAY 3	SEB 8	LBH 4	MDO 3	WGL 2	MOS 2	LRP 2	ROA 3	VIR 2	LGA 3	PET 8	1st	322
2019	Corvette Racing	GTLM	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8	DAY 6	SEB 3	LBH 2	MDO 2	WGL 2	MOS 7	LIM 5	ELK 4	VIR 3	LGA 3	PET 4	3rd	317

^† Magnussen did not complete sufficient laps in order to score full points.

Complete TCR Denmark Touring Car Series 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	DC	Points
2020	LM Racing	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	JYL1 1 3	JYL1 2 4	JYL1 3 NC	JYL2 1	JYL2 2	JYL2 3	JYL2 4	JYL2 5	JYL2 6	DJU 1	DJU 2	DJU 3	PAD 1	PAD 2	PAD 3	JYL3 1	JYL3 2	JYL3 3	7th*	32*

^* Season still in progress.

References

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3. "Motorsport information for April 1994". Teamdan.com. Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
4. "June 1994 Motorsport Information". Teamdan.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
5. "AUGUST 1994 Motorsport Information". Teamdan.com. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
6. "Too Much Too Young" (PDF). Motor Sport. May 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
7. Mejia, Diego (21 June 2010). "Magnussen enjoys Sprint Cup debut". Autosport. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
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9. "Jan Magnussen". grand-am.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
10. "Jan Magnussen confirmed for inaugural TCR Denmark season". TouringCarTimes.com. 7 November 2019.
11. "Kevin Magnussen signed up by McLaren – GPUpdate.net". F1.gpupdate.net. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
12. "Magnussen confirmed at Renault F1 team – MotorSport.com". MotorSport.com. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
13. "Latest News". Archived from the original on 3 August 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.

External links

• Official website
• Jan Magnussen driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Jan Magnussen at Driver Database

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 Championship Champion 2003	Succeeded by Casper Elgaard
Preceded by Michel Nykjaer	Danish Touring Car Championship Champion 2008	Succeeded by Michel Nykjær
Preceded by Michael Christensen Patrick Long	North American Endurance Cup GTLM Champion 2015 With: Antonio García	Succeeded by Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner
Preceded by Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner	WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTLM Champion 2017-2018 With: Antonio García	Succeeded by Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor