🇫🇮 Jyrki Järvilehto

Jyrki Järvilehto was an established professional racing driver in Formula 1, competing in a single-class world championship from 1989 to 1994. He raced for Sauber across six seasons and 62 starts, campaigning the team's single-seaters in a field that mixed amateur and professional competitors against some of the strongest drivers in motorsport.[1]

Järvilehto took a single podium finish in his Formula 1 career, which spanned 1989 through 1994. His final season came in 1994, when he contested eight rounds and finished 19th in the championship standings. He was regularly pitted against established professionals; he typically finished behind Gerhard Berger, a driver with 210 Formula 1 starts, and was closely matched with Jean Alesi, the 1989 International Formula 3000 champion. He outfinished Nelson Piquet once across their meetings; Piquet had won three Formula 1 world championships. Against Mika Häkkinen, a back-to-back Formula 1 champion in 1998 and 1999, Järvilehto finished ahead four times over the course of their encounters in the series.[2]

Beyond Formula 1, his record also includes victories in major international sportscar racing, among them the American Le Mans Series in 2004 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1995 and 2005.