🇫🇮 JJ Lehto

Lehto was an established professional racing driver competing in single-seater and endurance championships during the late 1980s and 1990s. His indexed racing record spans three seasons from 1988 to 1997, with 21 starts across Formula 3 Macau, International Formula 3000, and the FIA GT Championship. In sportscar racing he drove for BMW Motorsport, piloting shared cars in the FIA GT Championship where he earned an FIA Silver grading.[1]

His main achievement in the indexed series came in the 1997 FIA GT Championship, where he took 4 wins and 8 podiums from 11 rounds to finish second in the championship standings for BMW Motorsport. That season accounted for the vast majority of his wins and podiums on record. His earlier single-seater campaigns in Formula 3000 and Formula 3 Macau in 1988 and 1989 yielded no wins. His regular opponents in endurance racing, Éric Bernard and Jean-Denis Deletraz, both established competitors in multiple series, he typically outran. He also finished ahead of Ralf Schumacher, a Gold-graded professional who later raced extensively in Formula 1, once in their meetings.[2]