John Nielsen (racing driver)

John Nielsen (born 7 February 1956) is a Danish former racing driver. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1990.^[1]

Nielsen was born in Varde. Prior to his win at Le Mans, he won the 1984 Macau Grand Prix, and the 1985 Curaçao Grand Prix. He was also a 3-time champion of the European Formula Super Vee Championship from 1979 to 1981. He is now a Formula 1 commentator for TV3+ in Denmark, but also works in public.

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap; small number denotes finishing position.)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Pts
1985	Ralt Racing Ltd	Ralt RB20	Cosworth V8	SIL 2	THR NC	EST 1	NÜR C	VAL 2	PAU Ret	SPA Ret	DIJ 3	PER Ret	ÖST 2	ZAN 4	DON 13	4th	34
1986	Ralt Racing Ltd	Ralt RT20	Honda V8	SIL 3^‡	VAL Ret	PAU Ret	SPA 2	IMO Ret	MUG Ret	PER 6	ÖST 2	BIR 11	BUG 7	JAR 5		6th	17
Sources:^[2]^[3]

^‡ Half points awarded.

Nielsen also entered one non-championship F3000 race, the 1985 Curaçao Grand Prix. Driving the Ralt RB20 with Cosworth engine that he had used in that year's championship, he won the race and set the fastest lap.^[4]

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1986	Kouros Racing Team	Mike Thackwell	Sauber C8-Mercedes	C1	61	DNF	DNF
1987	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Martin Brundle	Jaguar XJR-8LM	C1	231	DNF	DNF
1988	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Martin Brundle	Jaguar XJR-9LM	C1	306	DNF	DNF
1989	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Andy Wallace Price Cobb	Jaguar XJR-9LM	C1	215	DNF	DNF
1990	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Price Cobb Martin Brundle	Jaguar XJR-12	C1	359	1st	1st
1991	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Derek Warwick Andy Wallace	Jaguar XJR-12	C2	356	4th	4th
1992	Porsche Kremer Racing	Manuel Reuter Giovanni Lavaggi	Porsche 962CK6	C3	334	7th	2nd
1993	TWR Jaguar Racing	David Brabham David Coulthard	Jaguar XJ220	GT	306	DSQ	DSQ
1994	Seikel Motorsport	Thomas Bscher Lindsay Owen-Jones	Porsche 968 Turbo RS	GT2	84	DNF	DNF
1995	West Competition David Price Racing	Jochen Mass Thomas Bscher	McLaren F1 GTR	GT1	131	DNF	DNF
1996	West Competition David Price Racing	Thomas Bscher Peter Kox	McLaren F1 GTR	GT1	338	4th	3rd
1998	Nissan Motorsports TWR	Michael Krumm Franck Lagorce	Nissan R390 GT1	GT1	342	5th	5th
2000	Team Den Blå Avis	Mauro Baldi Klaus Graf	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-Élan	LMP900	205	NC	NC
2001	Team Den Blå Avis Team Goh	Hiroki Katoh Casper Elgaard	Dome S101-Judd	LMP900	66	DNF	DNF
2003	RN Motorsport	Hayanari Shimoda Casper Elgaard	DBA4 03S-Zytek	LMP675	288	22nd	2nd
2004	Lister Racing	Casper Elgaard Jens Møller	Lister Storm LMP-Chevrolet	LMP1	279	24th	9th
2006	Zytek Engineering Team Essex Invest	Casper Elgaard Philip Andersen	Zytek 06S	LMP1	269	NC	NC
2008	Team Essex	Casper Elgaard Sascha Maassen	Porsche RS Spyder Evo	LMP2	347	12th	2nd
Sources:^[5]^[2]

Complete JGTC results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	DC	Pts
1996	Team Lark McLaren	McLaren F1 GTR	GT500	SUZ 2	FUJ 1	SEN 8	FUJ 2	SUG Ret	MIN 4	1st	63
Sources:^[6]^[7]

References

^ American, Dane, Briton Win in Jaguar at Le Mans, The Washington Post (June 18, 1990)
^ ^a ^b "John Nielsen Results". Motorsport Stats. Motorsport Network. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
^ "Ralt Racing History". RaltRacing.com. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
^ "1985 Curacao Grand Prix". Motor Sport. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
^ "John Nielsen". Automobile Club de l'Ouest. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
^ "1996 All Japan GT Championship". Super GT. Archived from the original on 6 July 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
^ "All Japan Grand Touring Championship 1996". World Sports Racing Prototypes. Archived from the original on 3 May 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2023.

External links

European Le Mans Series profile

[1] American, Dane, Briton Win in Jaguar at Le Mans, The Washington Post (June 18, 1990)

[motorsportstats-2] "John Nielsen Results". Motorsport Stats. Motorsport Network. Retrieved 8 December 2023.

[3] "Ralt Racing History". RaltRacing.com. Retrieved 8 December 2023.

[4] "1985 Curacao Grand Prix". Motor Sport. Retrieved 8 December 2023.

[LeMansResults-5] "John Nielsen". Automobile Club de l'Ouest. Retrieved 17 January 2023.

[6] "1996 All Japan GT Championship". Super GT. Archived from the original on 6 July 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2023.

[7] "All Japan Grand Touring Championship 1996". World Sports Racing Prototypes. Archived from the original on 3 May 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2023.

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German Formula Three champions
Three-time	Komossa
Two-time	Deutsch Jelinski Schäfer
One-time	Albers Van Dam Deutz Dillmann Elkmann Eriksson Fontana Heidfeld Kaneishi Kirchhöfer Kolmsee Konrad Korten Kreuzer Kristensen Lamy Lang Leinders Maring Mohr Müller Nissen Oliveira Paffett Pantano Pommer Scharmann Schneider Schumacher Sommer Stanaway Thiim Trulli Tung Vanthoor Verstappen Vervisch Weidler Wendlinger Winkelhock

Macau Grand Prix winners
Four-time	John MacDonald
Two-time	Jan Bussell António Félix da Costa Arsenio Laurel Geoff Lees Hon Chio Leong Edoardo Mortara Riccardo Patrese Felix Rosenqvist Vern Schuppan Dan Ticktum
One-time	Ayari Bartlett Bertaggia Bianchi Brabham Browning C.L. Choun W.C. Chang Conway Coulthard Carvalho Couto Di Grassi Donnelly Dumbreck Earl Firman Gommendy Gugelmin Hardwick Heath Jarvis Juncadella Kunimoto Lapierre Lynn Maassen Manning Maw Moreno Müller Pateman Albert Poon Prémat Quester Redfern Ritchie Rydell Sato M. Schumacher R. Schumacher Senna Steane Ugochukwu Verschoor Wallace

Winners of the 24 Hours of Le Mans
Nine-time	Tom Kristensen
Six-time	Jacky Ickx
Five-time	Derek Bell Frank Biela Emanuele Pirro
Four-time	Sébastien Buemi Yannick Dalmas Olivier Gendebien Henri Pescarolo
Three-time	Woolf Barnato Rinaldo Capello Luigi Chinetti Marcel Fässler Brendon Hartley Hurley Haywood Phil Hill Al Holbert André Lotterer Klaus Ludwig Allan McNish Kazuki Nakajima Benoît Tréluyer Marco Werner
Two-time	Fernando Alonso Earl Bamber Timo Bernhard Tim Birkin Ivor Bueb Romain Dumas Ron Flockhart Jean-Pierre Jaussaud Gérard Larrousse JJ Lehto Manuel Reuter André Rossignol Raymond Sommer Hans-Joachim Stuck Gijs van Lennep Jean-Pierre Wimille Alexander Wurz
One-time	Aïello Alboreto Amon Ara Attwood Baldi Bandini Barilla Barth Benjafield Benoist Bianchi Bloch Blundell Bouchut D. Brabham G. Brabham Brundle Calado Chaboud Clement Cobb Conway Davis de Courcelles Dickens Duff Dumfries Duval Étancelin Fontés Foyt Frère Fuoco Gachot Gené Giovinazzi González Gregory Guichet Gurney Hamilton Hanson Hawthorn Hélary Herbert Herrmann G. Hill Hindmarsh Hirakawa Howe Hülkenberg Jani Johansson Jones Kidston Kobayashi Krages Kubica Lagache Lammers Lang Léonard Lieb López Marko Martini Mass McLaren Mitchell-Thomson Molina N. Nielsen Nuvolari Oliver Ortelli Pier Guidi Pironi Riess Rindt Rockenfeller Rodríguez Rolt Rondeau J. Rosier L. Rosier Rubin Salvadori Sanderson Scarfiotti Schuppan Sekiya Shelby Smith Tandy Trémoulet Trintignant Vaccarella Veyron Walker Wallace Warwick Weidler Whitehead B. Whittington D. Whittington Winkelhock Ye

Winners of the 24 Hours of Daytona
run as the Daytona 3 Hour Continental (1962–63) Daytona 2000 (1964–65) 6 Hours of Daytona (1972) 24 Hours of Daytona (1966–71 / 1973 / 1975–present)
Five-time	Hurley Haywood Scott Pruett
Four-time	Peter Gregg Pedro Rodríguez Rolf Stommelen Bob Wollek
Three-time	João Barbosa Derek Bell Hélio Castroneves Scott Dixon Christian Fittipaldi Butch Leitzinger Juan Pablo Montoya Brian Redman Memo Rojas Andy Wallace
Two-time	Filipe Albuquerque Max Angelelli Mauro Baldi Tom Blomqvist Terry Borcheller Elliott Forbes-Robinson A. J. Foyt Al Holbert Kamui Kobayashi Jan Lammers Ken Miles Felipe Nasr Simon Pagenaud John Paul Jr. Lloyd Ruby Scott Sharp Jordan Taylor Ricky Taylor Wayne Taylor Didier Theys Al Unser Jr. Renger van der Zande
One-time	Allmendinger Alonso Amon J. Andretti Ma. Andretti Ballot-Léna Bandini Barber Beretta Bergmeister Bernhard Boesel Bouchut Bourdais Boutsen Braun Briscoe Brown Brundle Buckler Cameron Campbell Collard Dalziel Derani Dismore D. Donohue M. Donohue Dupuy Durán Duxbury Dyson Elford Fellows Field Fitzpatrick Franchitti Fréon García Garretson Gentilozzi Gordon Graves Gurney Hand Hasemi Helmick Henn Herrmann Hezemans Hill Hoshino Ickx Jarvis Jelinski Joest D. Jones P. J. Jones Kanaan Kimball Kinnunen Kneifel Krages Larson Lässig Lavaggi Law Lienhard Luyendyk Martin McMurray Mears Merl Millen Moran Moretti Neerpasch Negri Newgarden O'Connell Oliver Ongais Pace Papis C. Parsons Paul Sr. Pescarolo Pew Pilgrim B. Rahal G. Rahal Rice Robinson Rockenfeller Rossi Schneider Schrom Siffert Suzuki Tandy Unser Sr. Van der Merwe Van Overbeek Vanthoor Weaver Wendlinger Werner Wheldon Wilson