BIOGRAPHY

Nationality:     Danish 
Date of Birth:   July 4th, 1973 
Place of Birth:  Roskilde, Denmark 
Marital Status:  Single 
Resident:        Silverstone, England 



Described by three-times F1 World Champion
Jackie Stewart as "the most promising
youngster to come along since Ayrton
Senna", the 1994 British F3 Champion enters
the F1 scene as test driver for Marlboro
McLaren Mercedes. 

From very early on in his motor racing
career, Jan has displayed enormous
potential and record breaking abilities.

He ended his karting days in 1991 with a
hat-trick of World Championships under his
belt to move to England and compete in the
1992 British FF1600 championship for
Foundation Racing.

It took a few races for the young Dane to
adapt to the car and learn the circuits,
but once familiar to both, he totally
dominated the series. In the second half of
the season, he won 7 races, including the
prestigious Formula Ford Festival at Brands
Hatch, and finished 3rd in the championship

In 1993, after successive spells in the
Formula Vauxhall Lotus and Opel Lotus
European Championship, Jan made his British
F3 debut by competing in a couple of races
with Paul Stewart Racing, finishing 4th and
3rd in those two events. 

The following season, still with Paul
Stewart Racing, he clinched the
championship in the most dominant fashion
ever achieved in the history of British F3
racing by winning 14 out of 18 races - more
than Ayrton Senna, whose 1983 record of 12
wins out of 20 races in one season had
remained unbeaten for over a decade.

That season brought him also the nickname
of "Danish Dynamite".  In October 1994, Jan
drove the McLaren MP4/9 as a reward for
this achievement, and was subsequently
signed by Marlboro McLaren Mercedes to
become the team's test driver in 1995. 

He also competes in the DTM championship
with the Mercedes-Benz AMG team.

Jan is 21, and lives with his girlfriend
and their son, Kevin.



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COMPETITION HISTORY
 
1984 - 1986 Karting, Champion of Denmark in
       1985 and 1986 

1987 - Karting, World Champion
       (Category Junior) 
 
1988 - Winner of the Go-kart Australian
       Grand Prix (Category Junior) 

1989 - Karting, World Champion
       (Category Junior)

1990 - Karting, World Champion
       (Category Junior) 

1991 - Single-seater debut in Formula Ford
       at the Jyllands-Ringen - 
       Scandinavian Karting Championship -
       runner-up 

1992 - British FF1600 - 3rd, 7wins - 
       Winner of the FFord Festival at
       Brands Hatch 

1993 - Formula Vauxhall Lotus, Opel Lotus
       European Championship. Debut in F3
       with Paul Stewart Racing. 4th and
       3rd in the two F3 races he
       contested 

1994 - British F3 Champion with Paul
       Stewart Racing. 14 wins out of 18
       races 

Career Statistics

         992FF 1993OL 1993F3 1994F3 TOTAL
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No. of  |     |       |     |      |     |
races   | 19  |  21   |  2  | 18   | 60  |
Pole    |     |       |     |      |     |
posit:  | 3   |   2   |  0  | 10   | 15  |
Wins:   | 7   |   4   |  0  | 14   | 25  |
2nd     |     |       |     |      |     |
places: | 0   |   5   |  0  |  0   |  5  |
3rd     |     |       |     |      |     |
places: | 3   |   0   |  1  |  1   |  5  |
DNQ:    | 5   |   9   |  0  |  1   | 15  |
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FF=Formula Ford;
OL=Opel Lotus;
F3=British Formula 3

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