🇳🇱 Jan Lammers

Jan Lammers is a retired professional racing driver who competed across Formula 1, single-seater open-wheel championships, and endurance racing from 1979 to 2024. His early career centred on Formula 1, where he made 24 starts for March across two separate spells between 1979 and 1992; he later raced in Formula 3000, Formula 3 Macau, the FIA GT Championship, and the WEC, alongside recent appearances in the 24-hour racing and Road to Le Mans series. His rating of 4,206 places him at professional level.[1]

Lammers' record across 64 starts spans 18 seasons and shows him as a driver who competed at length in junior single-seater formulas and then in endurance racing as his career matured. He took five podiums across his racing life, three of them in the Formula 3 Macau races where he appeared regularly between 1985 and 1988. In Formula 1 proper he did not score points; his later endurance campaigns in the FIA GT Championship between 1997 and 2008, and his WEC appearances in 2017 and 2018, produced no podium finishes. His most recent indexed activity came in 2018 WEC, where he finished 15th in the championship standings across two rounds.[2]

Against the established professionals who made up much of his regular opposition, Lammers was closely matched; he met René Arnoux and Riccardo Patrese repeatedly and came out level with both. On single occasions he finished ahead of drivers of considerably higher standing, including Nelson Piquet, the three-time Formula 1 world champion, and Felix Rosenqvist, an elite professional who went on to race in the FIA Formula 3 European championship and compete in IndyCar.