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Jan Lammers

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Johannes Antonius "Jan" Lammers (born 2 June 1956) is a Dutch racecar driver, most notable for winning the 1988 24 Hours of Le Mans world endurance race, for Silk Cut Jaguar/TWR; after four seasons in Formula One racing, from 1979 through 1982, for the F1 teams of Shadow, ATS, Ensign and Theodore, respectively. After a world-record setting ten-year hiatus, Lammers made a brief Formula One comeback, for two races, with team March in 1992. Aside from racing in these two of the highest leagues of global auto-sports, Lammers has raced in an exceptionally wide number of racing series and competitions, domestic and abroad, over four decades. Later in life, Lammers became a team owner as well, first setting up his own Formula Opel Lotus team, Vitaal Racing, winning the EFDA Opel Lotus Euroseries with Peter Kox in 1989, then creating the Racing for Holland outfit that raced in sportscars class in 2001-2007. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Lammers is the 335th most popular racing driver (down from 325th in 2019), the 703rd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 697th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Dutch Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Jan Lammers ranks 335 out of 1,080. Before him are Eliseo Salazar, Chico Landi, Paolo Barilla, Pablo Birger, Adrián Campos, and Siegfried Stohr. After him are Consalvo Sanesi, Giorgio Francia, Miki Biasion, Eugène Chaboud, Geoff Lees, and Mike Parkes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Jan Lammers ranks 293. Before him are Sergei Sukhoruchenkov, Eduardo Rodríguez, Laura Zapata, Lounès Matoub, Stella Kyriakides, and Scholastique Mukasonga. After him are Richard Kind, Alan Ruck, Abdullah Çatlı, Doina Melinte, Pedro Santana Lopes, and Anatoly Artsebarsky.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jan Lammers ranks 703 out of 1,646. Before him are Mark Blaug (1927), René Pijnen (1946), Ruud Hesp (1965), Jan Frederik Gronovius (1686), Balthasar van der Pol (1889), and Abraham Pais (1918). After him are Bennie Muller (1938), Kees de Jager (1921), Jan Zwartkruis (1926), Albert Kluyver (1888), Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920), and Adrian Vandenberg (1954).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Netherlands

Among racing drivers born in Netherlands, Jan Lammers ranks 4. Before him are Jos Verstappen (1972), Carel Godin de Beaufort (1934), and Gijs van Lennep (1942). After him are Ben Pon (1936), Huub Rothengatter (1954), Eppie Wietzes (1938), Jan Flinterman (1919), Michael Bleekemolen (1949), Christijan Albers (1979), Roelof Wunderink (1948), and Dries van der Lof (1919).

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