{"id":30510,"date":"2020-12-05T23:19:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T23:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/drivers\/jan-magnussen\/"},"modified":"2023-11-07T17:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T17:00:36","slug":"jan-magnussen","status":"publish","type":"driver","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/drivers\/jan-magnussen\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Magnussen"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n<section class=\"hero hero--small-image\">\n    \n            \n<section class=\"c-site-breadcrumbs site-breadcrumbs proxima \">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <nav class=\"breadcrumbs\"><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/\">Home<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/nav>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n    \n    <div class=\"hero__content\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n                            <div class=\"circular-image\">\n                                            <picture>\n            <source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"\" >\n            <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" alt=\"_sbl8981\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/sbl8981-200x200.jpg\" srcset=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\"  \/>\n        <\/picture>\n                                    <\/div>\n                        <h1 class=\"hero__title sanomat\"><\/h1>\n                                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"anchor-menu container-no-breakpoints proxima\">\n    <ul>\n                    <li><a href=\"#biography\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Biography<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#championship-seasons\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Championship Seasons<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#non-championship-races\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Non-Championship Races<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#teams\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Teams<\/a><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"container\" id=\"biography\">\n            <div class=\"post__item\">\n                <div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-data-box\" data-driver-id=\"30510\"><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n        <aside class=\"sidebar\" data-target=\"ad-container\">\n            <aside class=\"broadcast-space \">\n            <div class=\"broadcast-space__element\" id=\"div-gpt-ad-1563288058060-3\" data-behaviour=\"ad-target\"><\/div>\n    <\/aside>\n        <\/aside>\n    <\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" id=\"full-biography\">\n    \n        \n        <section class=\"c-expanding-content expanding-content expanding-content--expandable content-section toggle\">\n            <p>Exceptional in Formula 3 and with unquestioned natural ability, Jan Magnussen looked every inch a future superstar on the way to Grand Prix racing. But talent alone is no guarantee of Formula 1 success and his career at the highest level was a huge disappointment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karting World Champion and successful in cars\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Victory in the 1990 Formula A World Championship at\u00a0Jesolo\u00a0was the culmination of six successful years in karts. The feeling that Magnussen was special was confirmed at the end of his first year in cars.<\/p>\n<p>Increasingly fast in British Formula Ford during 1992, his\u00a0Duckhams\u00a0Van Diemen RF92 started Brands Hatch\u2019s end-of-season Festival weekend from the back of the grid in his heat and with a 10-second penalty. Yet, he fought through the field to win the final after an audacious pass for the lead at Paddock Hill Bend.<\/p>\n<p>His dominance of the 1994 British F3 Championship with Paul Stewart Racing\u2019s\u00a0Dallara\u00a0F394-Mugen drew comparisons with Ayrton Senna\u2019s time in the series and Magnussen joined McLaren-Mercedes as its F1 test driver in 1995. He raced an AMG Mercedes C-Klasse\u00a0in that year\u2019s International Touring Car Series and DTM and finished as runner-up in the former. That was despite missing two rounds after breaking his leg when his scooter was hit by a car.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Formula 1 debut for McLaren\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Magnussen also made his F1 debut in the 1995 Pacific GP when replacing appendix patient Mika\u00a0H\u00e4kkinen\u00a0at Aida. He qualified the difficult McLaren MP4-10B-Mercedes-Benz in 12th position and finished 10th.<\/p>\n<p>A permanent F1 opportunity was not forthcoming for 1996 so Magnussen remained in the DTM. He also raced a works and then Hogan Racing Penske PC25-Mercedes in the last four rounds of the Champ\u00a0Car World Series but finished no higher than eighth at Laguna\u00a0Seca.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grand Prix return with Stewart\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite that recent disappointing form in single-seaters, Jackie Stewart still remembered Magnussen\u2019s performances in F3. The Dane signed for new Stewart Grand Prix as Rubens Barrichello\u2019s team-mate for the 1997 F1 World Championship. He finished seventh in Monaco and qualified in a career-best sixth in Austria, but Magnussen struggled and only just retained his drive for 1998.\u00a0He finished sixth in the 1998 Canadian GP but that was his last GP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A championship winning GT driver\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Replaced by Jos Verstappen after struggling to apply his talent in F1, Magnussen rebuilt his career in sports\u00a0cars with the unusual front-engine\u00a0Panoz\u00a0roadster. He quickly developed into a\u00a0race winner in the American Le Mans Series but a 1999 return to Champ\u00a0Cars was less successful \u2013 seventh at Vancouver with Patrick Racing\u2019s Reynard 99I-Ford the best of seven races that season.<\/p>\n<p>He continued with\u00a0Panoz\u00a0until 2002 before finishing\u00a0fourth in the 2003 Le Mans 24 Hours with a Team Goh Audi R8. He drove for Corvette Racing from 2004 and won the GTS\/GT1 class at Le Mans for three years in a row when sixth (2004), fifth (2005) and fourth (2006) overall. Sixth again in 2007, he narrowly lost the GT1 victory to Aston Martin both that year and the next.<\/p>\n<p>Magnussen also shared the American Le Mans Series GT1 title with Johnny O\u2019Connell in 2008 and was Danish Touring Car Champion that year. GT1 winner at Le Mans again in 2009, he\u00a0repeated his ALMS GT success in 2013\u00a0\u2013\u00a0now partnered by Antonio Garc\u00eda.\u00a0The Magnussen\/Garc\u00eda Corvette C7-R won the Virginia IMSA GT race in 2017\u00a0and they won IMSA&#8217;s GTLM class title a year later.<\/p>\n<p>Part of Corvette&#8217;s GT\u00a0programme\u00a0for 16 years and a class winner at Le Mans on four occasions, Magnussen was dropped at the end of 2019.<\/p>\n\n                            <div class=\"expanding-content__buttons\">\n                                            <a href=\"#\" class=\"button button--outline button--chevron-down expanding-content__more\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Read full bio<\/a>\n                        <a href=\"#\" class=\"button button--outline button--chevron-up expanding-content__less\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Read Less<\/a>\n                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n\n                                \n   <\/div>\n\n<section 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