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 Macau Grand Prix in 1984. 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.

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

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

References[]

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

External links[]

European Le Mans Series profile

Sporting positions
Preceded by Frank Jelinski	German Formula Three champion 1982	Succeeded by Franz Konrad
Preceded by Ayrton Senna	Macau Grand Prix Winner 1984	Succeeded by Maurício Gugelmin
Preceded by Jochen Mass Manuel Reuter Stanley Dickens	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1990 with: Price Cobb Martin Brundle	Succeeded by Volker Weidler Johnny Herbert Bertrand Gachot
Preceded by None (1994)	BPR Global GT Series Champion 1995 with: Thomas Bscher	Succeeded by Ray Bellm James Weaver
Preceded by Masahiko Kageyama	All-Japan Grand Touring Car Champion 1996 with: David Brabham	Succeeded by Pedro de la Rosa Michael Krumm

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

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v t German Formula Three champions
Three-time
Two-time	Jelinski Schäfer
One-time	Albers van Dam Dillmann Elkmann Eriksson Fontana Heidfeld Kaneishi Kirchhöfer Kolmsee Konrad Kristensen Lamy Leinders Müller Nielsen Nissen Oliveira Paffett Pantano Pommer Scharmann Schneider Schumacher Stanaway Thiim Trulli Tung Vanthoor Verstappen Vervisch Weidler Wendlinger Winkelhock

v t 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 Brabham Conway Coulthard Couto di Grassi Donnelly Dumbreck Earl Firman Gommendy Gugelmin Jarvis Juncadella Kunimoto Lapierre Lynn Maassen Manning Moreno Müller Nielsen Poon Prémat Quester Ritchie Rydell Sato M. Schumacher R. Schumacher Senna Verschoor Wallace

v t 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	Yannick Dalmas Olivier Gendebien Henri Pescarolo
Three-time	Woolf Barnato Sébastien Buemi Rinaldo Capello Luigi Chinetti Marcel Fässler 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 Brendon Hartley 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 Chaboud Clement Cobb Conway Davis de Courcelles Dickens Duff Dumfries Duval Étancelin Fontés Foyt Frère Gachot Gené González Gregory Guichet Gurney Hamilton Hawthorn Hélary Herbert Herrmann G. Hill Hindmarsh Howe Hülkenberg Jani Johansson Jones Kidston Kobayashi Krages Lagache Lammers Lang Léonard Lieb López Marko Martini Mass McLaren Mitchell-Thomson Nielsen Nuvolari Oliver Ortelli 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

v t 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 Scott Dixon Christian Fittipaldi Butch Leitzinger Juan Pablo Montoya Brian Redman Memo Rojas Andy Wallace
Two-time	Filipe Albuquerque Max Angelelli Mauro Baldi Terry Borcheller Elliott Forbes-Robinson A. J. Foyt Al Holbert Kamui Kobayashi Jan Lammers Ken Miles 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 Briscoe Brown Brundle Buckler Castroneves 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 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 Nielsen 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 Unser Sr. Van der Merwe Van Overbeek Weaver Wendlinger Werner Wheldon Wilson