Jan Lammers, born June 2, 1956 in Zandvoort, is a racing driver and team principal from the Netherlands. He participated in 41 Formula One Grand Prix races, debuting on January 21, 1979. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1988and later participated the race with his own team Racing for Holland. Also, Jan Lammers is the seatholder of the Dutch A1 Grand Prix team.

Lammers starts in 1977 in the European Formula 3 Championship, but he does not get good results with his Hawke. Lammers won the 1978 European Formula 3 Championship with Racing Team Holland.

Lammers began his F1 career with Shadow in 1979. In 1980 and 1981, Lammers spent two seasons in the Formula One as an ATS driver, as well as driving for Ensign. For 1982, he moved to Theodore but his season was something of a disaster. He scored no championship points during his F1 career, and tried IndyCar racing before turning to sports car racing.

In 1992, Lammers made a two-race comeback in F1 for March, his first F1 appearance since 1982, which is the longest gap between two Grands Prix in the history of Formula One. He was signed for the team in 1993 as well, but they went bankrupt before the season started.

Gianni Morbidelli was born January 13, 1968, in Pesaro, Italy. He currently competes in the Superstars Series. Morbidelli participated in 70 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on March 11, 1990. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of 8.5 championship points. He competed in the Italian Formula 3 and became Formula 3 European champion in 1989. After doing the first 2 races of the 1990 Formula One season for Dallara, he concentrated on Formula 3000. Morbidelli won 1 race and finished in the 1990 championship.

Once the 1990 season had finished, Morbidelli did the final two races of the F1 season with Minardi, where he remained until the end of 1992, with the exception of the 1991 Australian Grand Prix, in which he was drafted in after Alain Prost left the Ferrari team. Morbidelli scored a half-point for 6th in a shortened wet race.

He joined Footwork for 1994 after a year away. He scored 8 points in two years with the team, including a 3rd place finish in the 1995 Australian Grand Prix, a race of high attrition. His points total made him the most successful driver in the history of the Footwork team.

A few mid-season races for Sauber in 1997 were unsuccessful and Gianni suffered two injuries through separate testing accidents. He never raced in Formula One afterwards.

In 1998 he drove for Volvo in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), but was not competitive as team-mate Rickard Rydell won the title. His only competitive showing was in the summer meeting at Thruxton, where he charged from near the back of the back to finish fourth, passing many cars in the process. More recently he has competed in the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) and World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) for Alfa Romeo, and had outings in several GT championships.

His touring car career seemed to be blighted by a lack of prowess in front-wheel drive machinery, as he had many competitive showings and race wins when racing rear-wheel drive BMW cars. Most recently he has competed in the Speedcar Series, winning the 2008-09 championship.

Gianni Morbidelli is the son of Giancarlo Morbidelli, the founder of Morbidelli motorcycle company which had success in Grand Prix motorcycle racing. In 2008 Gianni Morbidelli is driving in the ADAC GT Masters together with Dennis Retera a Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 with Team ”Flatex-Reiter”.

Christian Danner was born 4th of April 1958 in Munich.

The son of well-known car safety expert Max Danner, Christian started motor-racing in the Renault 5 cup. He advanced to Formula 2 and set the F2 lap record of the current configuration of the old Nürburgring, which was used only in 1983 for international racing.

Danner won the inaugural Formula 3000 championship in 1985, and debuted in Formula One on 15 September 1985 for the all-German team Zakspeed. He eventually participated in 47 Grand Prix events. His best result was 4th at the 1989 United States Grand Prix for Rial. He also managed one 6th place whilst driving for Arrows.

Danner competed in Japanese Formula 3000 in 1990 driving for Leyton House’s F3000 team. He scored 4 points and was ranked 14th. In 1991 he drove in one race of the British Touring Car Championship for BMW.

Danner later raced in Champ Cars and also in the International Touring Car Championship for Alfa Romeo. He took part in the now defunct series, Grand Prix Masters.

He is also an F1 commentator for the channel RTL in his native Germany.

Karl Edward Tommy Borgudd, better known as Slim Borgudd is a Swedish former Formula One driver born 25 November in Borgholm, Sweden.

His first career was as a drummer, mainly in jazz-rock, most notably for short-lived groups Made In Sweden and Solar Plexus. He has also drummed on several tracks by Swedish pop music group ABBA, having worked with Björn Ulvaeus’ previous group, the Hootenanny Singers.

Borgudd began racing on and off in the mid 1960s with a Lotus Formula Ford car, but his racing career only became more serious in 1972, after taking five wins in five sports car racing club events. Borgudd raced a Hillman Imp and a Volvo 122 in the Swedish Touring Car Championship from 1972 to 1975, finishing runner-up in 1972, as well as racing in the Scandinavian Formula Ford series, which he won in 1973.

In 1976, Borgudd moved up Formula 3, racing sporadically until the end of the 1977 season. In 1978, he formed his own team and raced full time in the Swedish and European series, in an old Ralt-Toyota, which he took to the Swedish championship title in 1979, also finishing third in the European series. Failing to move to Formula 2 in 1980, he raced only in the F3 Monaco Grand Prix, where he reached third place before the bodywork became loose, forcing Borgudd to finish the race holding the body together with one hand.

In 1981, Borgudd, now 34, finally entered Formula 1 in ATS, making his debut in the San Marino Grand Prix, placing ABBA logos (but no sponsorship money) in the car’s sidepods, a hopeful move to attract other investors. In spite of a run of non-qualifications, Borgudd managed to score a single point in the British Grand Prix, taking advantage of the retirements ahead of him. In spite of the added morale boost, Borgudd failed to score any more points.

In 1982 Ken Tyrrell hired Borgudd to partner Michele Alboreto, as the Swede had out-qualified the Italian on several occasions in 1981. However, Borgudd did not adapt to his new team, and was unceremoniously dumped when his sponsorship money ran out early in the season.

From 1983 to 1985, Borgudd raced only on occasion, including his taking part in the 1985 Macau Grand Prix. Although he took part in the 1987 24 Hours of Le Mans, and in 1989 had an outright win in the Willhire 24 Hour, a minor touring car race where he drove a Ford Sierra, the Swede made his mark in truck racing the following years. In 1986 and 1987, Borgudd was champion in Divisions 2 and 3 of the European Truck Racing Cup, respectively. The following years, success was more fleeting, although the Scandinavian driver managed to finish the 1992 Class B championship in third place.

It wouldn’t be until 1993 that Borgudd made his full time return to automobiles, joining the works Mazda team and driving a Mazda Xedos 6 in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) with sparse results. However, a switch to the Nordic Touring Car Championship in 1994 saw him take the championship title. The Mazda team made plans to return to the BTCC the following year, but the plan was scrapped.

Also in 1994, Borgudd went back to top form in the Truck Racing Cup, where the Swede lost the race to the championship title to British driver Steve Parrish, after a dogfight that lasted the entire season. Borgudd responded in kind in 1995, beating Parrish and Markus Oestreich by a large margin. In 1996 and 1997, Borgudd finished 5th and 4th only, and announced his retirement after accusing Mercedes-Benz of favoring other drivers. Since then, he has made occasional returns to racing at amateur level, having settled down in Coventry, England.

Mika Salo, born November 30, 1966 in Helsinki, is a Finnish racing driver. He competed in Formula One between 1994 and 2002. His best ranking was 10th in the world championship in 1999. He also won the GT2 class in the 2008 and 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans.

After a few years racing in Japan he made his first F1 start at the penultimate round of the 1994 season in Japan for the ailing Lotus team. He was kept on for the season’s finale in Australia. Following the collapse of Lotus following the end of the season, Salo moved to Tyrrell for 1995. He was to spend three years with the team, scoring points several times. In the 1997 Monaco Grand Prix he completed the whole (rain-shortened and -slowed) race without refuelling, taking fifth place ahead of the faster Giancarlo Fisichella as a result. Despite a promising 1998 with Arrows, he had no full-time drive in 1999.

Following an injury to BAR driver Ricardo Zonta, Salo did get a short-term drive with the team for three races whilst the Brazilian recovered. However a greater opportunity arose when Michael Schumacher broke his leg at a crash during the 1999 British Grand Prix. Salo was selected as his substitute to partner Eddie Irvine at Ferrari. In his second race in Ferrari at the 1999 German Grand Prix Salo led for part of the race and would have scored a Grand Prix win but team orders demanded that he give the lead to Irvine, who at the time was fighting for the championship with Mika Häkkinen. Following the race, Irvine handed his victory trophy over to Salo as a gesture to show his gratitude. He also finished third at Monza, ahead of Irvine.

Salo was back full-time in 2000 with Sauber, taking 11th in the championship, although he left the team at the end of the season to join the new Toyota team in preparation for its F1 entry in 2002. He scored two points for Toyota in their first season, becoming the first driver since JJ Lehto at the 1993 South African Grand Prix to score points on a team’s debut by finishing sixth at the 2002 Australian Grand Prix. He retired from Formula One at the end of 2002.

Ukyo Katayama, born May 29 1963, is a Japanese racing driver, most notable for competing six years in Formula One. Despite struggling with under-funded teams throughout his career, Katayama’s performances impressed on several occasions, and was popular in the F1 paddock for his unshakeably sunny disposition and self-deprecating sense of humour ”It is possible to do more with this car – the only problem is my driving!”

He participated in 97 Grands Prix, debuting on March 1, 1992. He scored a total of five championship points, all of them for the Tyrell team in 1994.

He also competed in the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing 2nd overall and 1st in the GTP class.

Jacques Laffite, born 21 November 1943, is a French former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1974 to 1986. He achieved six grand prix wins, all while driving for the Ligier team. He is now a TV commentator on French television TF1.

Born in Paris, Laffite debuted in Formula One in 1974 for Frank Williams’ Iso Marlboro team. The following year he raced for the same team, now named Williams, scoring a 2nd place in the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring.

In 1976 Laffite moved to the French Ligier team, scoring 20 points and a pole position at the Italian Grand Prix. The next two seasons were transitional, although he managed to win his first Grand Prix at Anderstorp in the 1977 Swedish Grand Prix.

The 1979 season opened with Laffite winning the first two races. He fought for the World Championship title until the last races, but eventually placed only 4th, with 36 points. The following two seasons were similar, with two more 4th places in the Championship and a further 3 victories. In 1982, however, Laffite finished only 17th in the final classification, with only 5 points scored.

Results in the next two seasons weren’t much better, when he moved back to England, again to race for Williams (11 and 5 points, respectively). Now in his forties, Laffite returned to Ligier in 1985: in that season he was on the podium three times (Great Britain, Germany and Australia), for a total of 16 points. In 1986 he scored 14 points including two more podium finishes in the first half of the season, but he broke both legs in a crash at the start of the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch, and therefore retired from Formula One. The race was stopped and restarted without Laffite, who thus ended his career tied with Graham Hill for the most Grand Prix starts. He was the most successful driver in Ligier’s history, having taken six of their nine wins.

John Paul Herbert, born 25 June, 1964 in Romford, London, England is a British racing driver from England. He competed in Formula One, winning three races, and also in sports cars winning the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1991 driving a Mazda 787B. He enjoyed much success in lower-level motor racing but never managed to achieve the same level of performance at the top level of motorsport.

During the mid-1980s, Johnny Herbert was widely regarded as a coming man of motor racing, comparable to the Scot Jim Clark. Winning the Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch in 1985, Herbert caught Eddie Jordan’s attention, and together they won the 1987 British Formula Three title. Disaster struck in 1988, though, as Herbert, then a championship hopeful in International Formula 3000 was caught up in a major accident at Brands Hatch, badly breaking his legs in a fearsome impact with the barriers. It was an act of huge bravery that saw him back in a racing car at the beginning of 1989, despite the fact he could barely walk. Even more remarkably, he was now in Formula 1, scoring points on his debut in Brazil driving for the Benetton team, then managed by his long time mentor and friend Peter Collins.

However, Herbert’s performances could not keep up that standard, and with the Benetton team under new management, he was dropped after failing to qualify for the Canadian Grand Prix. Herbert returned to Formula 3000, this time in the highly regarded Japanese series. It wasn’t long before he received another call from Grand Prix racing, this time Tyrrell. From 1990 to 2000, Herbert was a fixture in Formula One, switching to the dwindling Lotus team, now managed by Peter Collins.

After 3 years of frustration, Herbert left Lotus in mid 1994, joining Ligier and then Benetton for the last few races of the season. Although he failed to score any points in 1994, he was retained as Michael Schumacher’s team-mate for 1995. At the British Grand Prix, he inherited a hugely popular Grand Prix win after Michael Schumacher collided with Damon Hill. He followed this in similar circumstances at Monza, finishing 4th in the championship.

After being dropped by Benetton, Herbert drove for Swiss outfit Sauber in 1996-1998, scoring two podium places. Moving to Stewart Grand Prix in 1999, he was routinely outqualified by his younger team mate Rubens Barrichello but scored his third and final Grand Prix win in a remarkable wet/dry European Grand Prix. Staying at Stewart after the team was purchased by Ford and became Jaguar, Herbert endured another frustrating and pointless season, ending the year being stretchered off at Malaysia after a suspension failure caused him to crash heavily.

Since retiring from Grand Prix racing, Herbert has concentrated on Sports Cars, trying to repeat his Le Mans 24 Hours overall win of 1991. Recent years have seen him as one of the front runners in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), where he won several events and was a challenger for the 2003 crown.

In 2004, Herbert, along with Jamie Davies won the Le Mans Series championship at the wheel of an Audi R8 winning the races at Monza and Spa along the way.

In 2005, Herbert was appointed to the post of Sporting Relations Manager at Jordan Grand Prix, which was then renamed Midland F1 for the 2006 World Championship. However, in September of that year Spyker Cars bought the team, and renamed it Spyker MF1. Another of the new owners’ decisions was to not renew Herbert’s contract.

In 2007, Herbert entered the Le Mans 24 Hours driving for the factory Aston Martin team at the wheel of the Aston Martin DBR9 in the GT1 class. Herbert, along with Peter Kox and Tomáš Enge drove the 007 numbered car to a 9th placed overall finish and 4th in the GT1 class.

In 2008, Herbert won the first season of the Speedcar Series.

In 2009, Herbert made his debut in the British Touring Car Championship for Team Dynamics at the wheel of a Honda Civic at round eight of the championship, Silverstone. He qualified 17th for the first race, and after moving up the order, finished in 13th. In the second race, he finished inside the points in eighth place, scoring three points. In the final race of the day, a reverse starting grid is operated. The first six, seven, eight, nine or ten cars to finish race two, start race three in reverse order. This is decided by the winner of race two drawing a number between six and ten out of a hat. For the final race of the day, the top 9 finishers were reversed, meaning Herbert started from second. He was running well, and was holding 4th, but was forced to retire on lap 13, after contact with Jason Plato. Herbert went on to compete in the final two rounds of the season.

Marc Surer, born 18 September, 1951, is a former racing driver from Switzerland. He participated in 88 Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, debuting on 9 September 1979. He scored a total of 17 championship points.

Surer enjoyed BMW backing for most of his career, placing second in the 1978 F2 championship and winning the 1979 series in a works March-BMW. Marc’s early F1 years were somewhat troubled; he broke his legs testing an ATS at Kyalami in 1980, and again racing there in 1981 for Ensign. Surer re-established himself at Arrows, but his BMW connections saw him placed at Brabham for 1985, later moving back to Arrows when they acquired BMW power.

Surer also enjoyed rallying, but a serious accident at the 1986 ADAC Hessen-Rallye in his Ford RS200 severely injured him and killed his co-driver and friend Michel Wyder. BMW retained him as a driver coach and later director of motorsport activities, and he remains deeply involved with the sport both through a keen interest in historic F2 and as a television commentator and presenter.

Emanuele Pirro, born January 12, 1962 in Rome, Italy is a former Formula One driver and five time Le Mans 24 hour winner.

Pirro started his racing career in karts at the age of 11. At 18, he raced with the Formula Fiat Abarth, then moving on to F300, F2, F3. From 1989 to 1991, he was a Formula One driver and participated in 40 grands prix, first for Benetton and later for Scuderia Italia. He scored a total of 3 championship points.

After leaving Formula One, Pirro became involved in touring car winning the Macau Guia race twice in 1991 and 1992 at the wheel of a BMW M3 Evolution and the Italian Touring car championship in 1994 and 1995 driving for Audi.

Further success followed in sports car racing, with three wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in three consecutive years (2000 to 2002) partnered with Frank Biela and Tom Kristensen for Audi Sport Team Joest.

Emanuele Pirro, Frank Biela and Marco Werner made history by becoming the first drivers to win the Le Mans 24-hour race in a diesel-powered car. Pirro was driving the Audi R10 Diesel when it completed a record 380 laps of the La Sarthe circuit. The team repeated the feat the following year.

Pirro, alongside teammates Dindo Capello and Allan McNish won a historic race at Petit Le Mans in 2008, driving for Audi Sport North America.

Pirro retired from racing at the end of the 2008 season having finished second in the American Le Mans series and will take on an ambassadorial role with Audi in 2009.

Reine Wisell was born September 30, 1941 in Linkoping, but grew up in Motala. He began his racing career in 1962 in a series of competitions with Mini Coopers. 1965 Reine was second in the Swedish championship for this particular model. He debuted in Formula 3 1966 and was also a teacher for Ronnie Peterson and in 1967 he became champion in the Swedish Formula 3.

In 1970, Reine entered Formula One after Julie Christie died in a tragic accident during a practice for Italian GP. He became the second driver behind Emerson Fittipaldi. He made his debut at Watkins Glen in the United States team for the Gold Leaf Team Lotus. He finished in a sensational third place in the race. In 1971 he continued to drive for Lotus, together with Fittipaldi and finished twelfth in the championship, which was his best finish.

1972 Dave Walker took over Reines place in the Lotus team, and instead he went to the Marlboro BRM. However, he got the chance to re-house Lotus at the end of the season when it appeared that Walker did not race as expected.

1973, Reine participated in Sweden’s first Grand Prix at Anderstorp. Then he drove for Team Pierre Robert ”in a March 731st, however, the start was not as he imagined after a spring broke down while warming.

Wisell drove his last race in Formula One in 1974 at Anderstorp and again, he suffered a suspension problem and had to retire.

Emerson Fittipaldi, born December 12 1946 in São Paulo, Brazil is a highly successful Brazilian automobile racing driver, winning championships in both Formula One and CART, and the Indianapolis 500 twice.

Fittipaldi continued to win, drawing the attention of Colin Chapman, who was looking for a driver to support the Austrian Jochen Rindt in the 1970 Formula One season. The team’s No 3 driver, he ended up becoming No 1 driver after Rindt was killed at Monza and John Miles left the team. Thrust into the spotlight by leading F1’s top team, he proved up to the task and won for Lotus in its first race post-Rindt.

In his first full year as Lotus’ lead driver in 1971, Fittipaldi finished sixth in the drivers’ championship as the team further developed the previous season’s Lotus 72. Armed with what was arguably the greatest Formula one design of all time, the Lotus 72D, Fittipaldi proved unstoppable in 1972 as he won five of 11 races and easily won the F1 Drivers’ Championship from Jackie Stewart by 16 points. At 25 he was then the youngest champion in F1 history. It appeared he might do it again in 1973. But after three wins from four attempts with the 72D, he began to struggle in the new 72E that was unveiled mid-year. It resulted in the reverse of the previous year, Stewart beating Fittipaldi for the Drivers Championship by 16 points; though the combination of the 72D and E’s points earnings were enough to gain Team Lotus the 1973 F1 Manufacturers Championship.

Fittipaldi left Lotus to sign with the promising McLaren team. Driving the highly efficient McLaren M23, he had three victories in 1974, reached the podium four other times, and beat out Clay Regazzoni in a close battle for his second championship. The following season, he notched two more victories and four other podiums, but was second to a dominant Niki Lauda. However, at the height of his F1 success, Fittipaldi shocked everyone by leaving McLaren to race for older brother Wilson Fittipaldi’s Copersucar-sponsored Fittipaldi Automotive team.

It was hardly a world class organization and the double champion regularly struggled, even failing to qualify for three races in his time there. Despite this, he remained with the team for five seasons but only managed a best finish of second. Emerson Fittipaldi decided to retire from racing at the end of 1980. He has since said that his last two years in Formula One were very unhappy: ”I was too involved in the problems of trying to make the team work, and I neglected my marriage and my personal life”,[2] although at the time he cited the deaths of many of his colleagues as his reason.[3] He was only 33, but had been racing in Formula One for a decade. He had failed to finish seven of the last ten races that year and had several times been outpaced by his Finnish teammate Keke Rosberg (a future champion himself). He moved into the management of the team[4] alongside his brother. The team struggled on for another two years with minimal sponsorship, going into receivership at the end of 1982.

Stefan “lill-lövis” Johansson, born 8 September 1956 in Växjö, Sweden, is a former Formula One driver from Sweden. Since leaving Formula One he has raced in a number of categories, including CART, various kinds of Sports car racing, and GP Masters.

Johansson’s route to Formula One was via the British Formula 3 Championship, which he won in 1980. In Formula One he participated in 103 grands prix, debuting on 13 January 1980 for the Shadow team when he was still a Formula 3 regular, although these outings were unsuccessful and his fulltime Formula One debut did not occur until 1983 after a spell in Formula 2. His links to the Spirit team and their Honda engines saw him re-enter F1 with them. In his Grand Prix career, Johansson achieved 12 podiums, and scored a total of 88 championship points.

He joined Tyrrell in 1984 as a mid-season replacement for the injured Martin Brundle and then went on to Toleman for the end of season Grands Prix, finishing fourth in the Italian Grand Prix. A contract was signed with Toleman for 1985 but it fell through when Toleman failed to secure a tyre agreement. Instead Johansson started again with Tyrrell before being called up to Ferrari when René Arnoux was sacked. He led his second race with Ferrari in San Marino and would probably have won if he had not run out of fuel with two laps to go.

His role at Ferrari for the 1985 season was to back up Michele Alboreto’s championship challenge, but in 1986 he often outpaced his Italian team-mate. For 1987 he moved to McLaren as Alain Prost’s number two. Further podium finishes followed, but the team always intended to replace him with Ayrton Senna in 1988. Despite 11 podiums in 3 seasons, Stefan was still winless, and was not wanted by a top team.

He joined Ligier, ironically alongside Arnoux, but the car was totally uncompetitive, scoring no points and not always qualifying, even against teams with much smaller budgets such as AGS and Rial. Better was to follow in 1989 as he was signed to lead the new Onyx team. Their car was temperamental and didn’t always qualify, but Stefan finished third in Portugal for his last (and the team’s only) podium finish. He fell out with new team owner Peter Monteverdi in early 1990 and was duly sacked, making further appearances for AGS and Footwork in 1991.

Johansson’s record of podium finishes without a win was equalled by Nick Heidfeld at the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix.