Stefan Johansson

Stefan Johansson
Born	8 1956 (1956-Template:Pad2digit-Template:Pad2digit) Växjö, Sweden
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Formula One career
Nationality	Swedish
Years	1980, 1983 – 1991

Stefan Nils Edwin Johansson (born 8 September 1956 in Växjö, Sweden) is a Swedish racing driver, who drove in Formula One for both Ferrari and McLaren, among other teams. Since leaving Formula One he has raced in a number of categories, including CART, various kinds of Sports car racing, and Grand Prix Masters. He is also the manager of New Zealander Scott Dixon, winner of the 2008 Indianapolis 500.

Formula One career

Johansson's route to Formula One was via the British Formula 3 Championship, which he won in 1980 driving for future McLaren team boss Ron Dennis' Project Four team. In Formula One he participated in 103 grands prix, debuting on 13 January 1980 for the Shadow Racing Team at the 1980 Argentine Grand Prix when he was still a Formula Three regular. He failed to qualify for the race and the next race in Brazil and he was not seen in Formula One again until 1983 after spending 1982 in the European Formula Two Championship with Spirit Racing where he finished eighth overall, his best finish being third at Mugello in Italy.

1983

Johansson's first Formula One race with Spirit was at the non-championship 1983 Race of Champions at Brands Hatch where he failed to finish due to failure of the Honda engine on lap four. His qualifying time was almost 20 seconds off the pole time set by 1982 World Champion Keke Rosberg in his Williams-Cosworth but his times in the race morning warm-up session were among the fastest. He moved up to 17th place before pulling into the pits with ending failure. Spirit continued to test and develop the 201C and Johansson re-entered Formula One at the 1983 British Grand Prix at Silverstone where he qualified the car in a credible 14th position. He raced in a further five Grands Prix in 1983 with a best finish of seventh in the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.

1984

The Toleman TG184 raced by Johansson in 1984

Stefan Johansson was replaced at Spirit by Mauro Baldi for the 1984 season when the team lost its Honda engines to Williams and he didn't race until he joined Tyrrell in Round 10 of the championship, the British Grand Prix, at Brands Hatch as a replacement for the injured Martin Brundle. He then went on to Toleman for the end of season Grands Prix, finishing fourth in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza as a replacement for the team's regular driver Ayrton Senna who was stood down by the team for the race for breaking contract and signing with Team Lotus for 1985.

1985-1986

Johansson signed a contract with Toleman for 1985 but it fell through when Toleman failed to secure a tyre agreement. Instead Johansson started again with Tyrrell as a replacement for the suspended Stefan Bellof before being called up to Ferrari when René Arnoux was mysteriously sacked after the first race of the season in Brazil. He led his second race with Ferrari at their 'home' race, the San Marino Grand Prix, and two laps from home passed Senna's out of fuel Lotus to the delight of the Tifosi and would probably have won if his Ferrari 156/85 had not run out of fuel just half a lap after taking the lead. His role at Ferrari for the 1985 season was primarily to back up Michele Alboreto's championship challenge, though he did finish 2nd to the Italian at Canada and backed it up with 2nd in the next race at Detroit.

In 1986 he often outpaced Alboreto, despite the Italian being the teams lead driver. The V6 turbo in the Ferrari F1/86 lacked nothing in power compared to the Honda, BMW, Renault and TAG-Porsche engines, but the car itself proved to be difficult, with both drivers complaining through the season about lack of downforce and the cars reluctance to drive well on all but the smoothest of circuits. Johansson finished the 1986 Drivers' Championship his best ever in 5th place while Alboreto, who finished 2nd in 1985, could only manage 9th place. There were many in Formula One who believed that Johansson was unjustly shown the door by Ferrari, going on his performances in 1986 compared with his highly paid team mate.

1987

He was replaced at Ferrari by Austrian Gerhard Berger for 1987, and he moved to McLaren as number two driver behind double and reigning World Champion Alain Prost. McLaren weren't as competitive in 1987 as they had been from 1984-1986, with Prost only adding three wins to his tally (and beating the record of 27 Grand Prix wins held by Jackie Stewart with his 28th win in Portugal) and failing to successfully defend his Drivers' Championship. Further podium finishes did follow for the Swede and Johansson finished sixth in the Drivers' Championship. Stefan Johansson's position at McLaren was considered by many as just a stop gap signing by team boss Ron Dennis who had failed to lure Ayrton Senna from Lotus due to him being under contract until the end of 1987 and always intended signing the mercurial Brazilian for 1988. Johansson famously finished the 1987 German Grand Prix on three wheels having had a puncture on the last lap. He also finished second behind Prost in Belgium, and added further podium finishes in Spain and Japan. Despite 11 podiums in three seasons, Johansson was still winless and was not wanted by a top team (he had hoped to join Williams in 1988 as a replacement for the departing 1987 World Champion Nelson Piquet, but Williams signed Riccardo Patrese instead). He did return to McLaren in a test-driver capacity in 1991, testing the Honda V12 engine at Suzuka in Japan.

1988-1991

He joined Ligier for 1988, ironically alongside the man he replaced at Ferrari, René Arnoux, but the team's first non-turbo powered car since 1981, the Michel Beaujon designed JS31-Judd, was totally uncompetitive scoring no points and more often than not failing to qualify, even against teams with much smaller budgets such as AGS and Rial (the French teams low point of the year was when both Johansson and Arnoux failed to qualify for the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard in the first weekend of July).

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 Johansson finished a surprise and popular 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, who then took the record outright at the 2011 Malaysian Grand Prix.

In his Grand Prix career, Johansson achieved 12 podiums, and scored a total of 88 championship points.

CART career

Stefan Johansson
Starts	73
Wins	0
Poles	0
Awards
Award years	CART Rookie of the year

For 1992 he moved over to CART Championship Car, winning the Rookie of the Year title with two third places, ahead of Belgium's Eric Bachelart. His first pole came at Portland the next year, but as in Formula One he never won a race. From 1992 to 1996, he started 73 races and had his best season overall in 1994, finishing in 11th. During this time, he competed in the 1993-1995 Indianapolis 500. At the 1996 Molson Indy Toronto race, he was involved in an accident that claimed the life of fellow driver Jeff Krosnoff and track marshall Gary Avrin. After making wheel to wheel contact, Jeff's car hit the barriers and also a tree and lamp post that was too close to the track. Krosnoff died instantly of the injuries sustained from hitting the lamp post.

After Formula One: Sports Cars and team ownership

Before his Formula One career Johansson had participated in sports car races such as 24 Hours of Le Mans, and had won two World Sportscar Championship races in the 1980s (the Mugello round in 1983, driving a Joest Racing Porsche 956 with Bob Wollek, and the 1988 Spa Francorchamps race in a Sauber C9 with Mauro Baldi). After retiring from CART at the end of the 1996 season he returned to this type of racing. During 1997 he recorded two major race wins, at the 12 Hours of Sebring driving a Ferrari 333 SP and at Le Mans where he drove a Joest Porsche.

Johansson driving a Joest Porsche WSC-95 at Donington Park in 1997.

In 1997 Johansson founded a successful Indy Lights team running Fredrik Larsson and Jeff Ward; in 1998 its drivers were Guy Smith and Luiz Garcia, Jr.; for 1999 the seats went to Scott Dixon and Ben Collins.

During 1998 & 1999 Johansson raced for various sports car teams (like the unreliable Audi R8C Coupé at Le Mans) but in 2000 he started Johansson-Matthews racing with an American businessman called Jim Matthews. They competed in the American Le Mans Series using a Reynard 2KQ prototype. Unfortunately this wasn't a successful vehicle in its original form (though it was later developed into various other successful cars including the Zytek that he later raced) and the partnership dissolved.

In 2001 Johansson campaigned an Audi R8 prototype with backing from Gulf Oil and the assistance of Mike Earle's Arena team. That year he raced in the European Le Mans Series, the American Le Mans Series and at Le Mans itself. His co-drivers were Guy Smith and Patrick Lemarie. At Le Mans Smith was replaced by Tom Coronel.

2002 saw Johansson back in an Audi R8 but this time one run by the Miami based Champion Racing team. His co-driver was ex Formula One driver Johnny Herbert and they competed in the American Le Mans Series.

For 2003, he returned to CART as a team owner, running American Spirit Team Johansson with Jimmy Vasser and Ryan Hunter-Reay as drivers. This was one of many new teams for the 2003 CART season; ironically, Bachelart's Mi-Jack Conquest Racing team was another. The team was under-funded, and although Hunter-Reay scored a fluke win in the wet conditions at Australia, it folded at the end of the season.

After only competing in a couple of celebrity races and occasional outings in the works Zytek in 2004 Johansson returned to full time racing in 2005 driving the Chip Ganassi run New Century Mortgage sponsored Lexus Riley Daytona Prototype in the American Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series. With co-driver Cort Wagner he scored his best finish, a second place, at Mont Tremblant in Canada, they finished the year in fifth place in the championship.

In 2006 as well as the Grand Prix Masters series, Johansson has made occasional appearances in Grand-Am for the Cheever and CITGO teams, and has continued an association with the works Zytek team in the Le Mans Series.

2007 saw Johansson competing in a Highcroft Racing Courage-Acura in the LMP2 class of the American Le Mans Series, sharing with David Brabham. He was due to race a Zytek at Le Mans in 2007, but the team could not rebuild the car in time after a test-day accident, and Johansson made a last minute deal to drive a works Courage.

Johansson took part in the inaugural Speedcar Series in 2008, where luck once again deserted him as the victim of a lot of other drivers' accidents. For 2008 Johansson did not have a full-time sports car drive, but had some outings planned in the Highcroft Acura ARX-01 in the ALMS and a place with the Epsilon Euskadi team at Le Mans.

Outside the cockpit, Johansson has a number of business ventures (including managing several successful drivers such as Scott Dixon) and is a keen artist – he is particularly known for his watch designs. Also "Lill-Lövis" does expert commentary on Viasat Motor during Formula One races on occasion.

In 2011 he will race a Pescarolo-Judd in the Petit Le Mans 10 Hours and a Ford GT3 in the Malaysian 12 Hours at Sepang.

Career results

Complete European Formula Two Championship results

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

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Pos	Pts
1979	Polifac BMW Junior Team	March/792	BMW	SIL	HOC	THR	NÜR	VAL	MUG	PAU	HOC	ZAN	PER	MIS	DON Ret		-	0
1980	ICI Roloil Racing Team	March/802	BMW	THR DNS	HOC	NÜR	VAL	PAU	SIL	ZOL	MUG	ZAN	PER	MIS	HOC		-	0
1981	Docking Spitzley Team Toleman	Lola/T850	Hart	SIL 9	HOC 1	THR 7	NÜR 4	VAL 2	MUG Ret	PAU 8	PER Ret	SPA 14	DON 4	MIS 9	MAN 1		4th	30
1982	Marlboro Team Spirit	Spirit/201	Honda	SIL Ret	HOC Ret	THR 14	NÜR 6	MUG 3	VAL 4	PAU 7	SPA Ret	HOC 4	DON 11	MAN Ret	PER 11	MIS 7	8th	11

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Pts.
1980	Shadow Cars	Shadow DN11	Ford Cosworth DFV V8	ARG DNQ	BRA DNQ	RSA	USW	BEL	MON	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	NED	ITA	CAN	USA			NC	0
1983	Spirit Racing	Spirit 201C	Honda V6 (t/c)	BRA	USW	FRA	SMR	MON	BEL	DET	CAN	GBR Ret	GER Ret	AUT 12	NED 7	ITA Ret	EUR 14	RSA		NC	0
1984	Tyrrell Racing Organisation	Tyrrell 012	Ford Cosworth DFY V8	BRA	RSA	BEL	SMR	FRA	MON	CAN	DET	DAL	GBR DSQ	GER DSQ	AUT DNQ	NED DSQ				17th	3
	Toleman Group Motorsport	Toleman TG184	Hart Straight-4 (t/c)														ITA 4	EUR Ret	POR 11
1985	Tyrrell Racing Organisation	Tyrrell 012	Ford Cosworth DFY V8	BRA 7																7th	26
	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 156/85	Ferrari V6 (t/c)		POR 8	SMR 6	MON Ret	CAN 2	DET 2	FRA 4	GBR Ret	GER 9	AUT 4	NED Ret	ITA 5	BEL Ret	EUR Ret	RSA 4	AUS 5
1986	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari F1/86	Ferrari V6 (t/c)	BRA Ret	ESP Ret	SMR 4	MON 10	BEL 3	CAN Ret	DET Ret	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER 11	HUN 4	AUT 3	ITA 3	POR 6	MEX 12	AUS 3	5th	23
1987	Marlboro McLaren International	McLaren MP4/3	TAG V6 (t/c)	BRA 3	SMR 4	BEL 2	MON Ret	DET 7	FRA 8	GBR Ret	GER 2	HUN Ret	AUT 7	ITA 6	POR 5	ESP 3	MEX Ret	JPN 3	AUS Ret	6th	30
1988	Ligier Loto	Ligier JS31	Judd V8	BRA 9	SMR DNQ	MON Ret	MEX 10	CAN Ret	DET Ret	FRA DNQ	GBR DNQ	GER DNQ	HUN Ret	BEL 11	ITA DNQ	POR Ret	ESP Ret	JPN DNQ	AUS 9	NC	0
1989	Moneytron Onyx	Onyx ORE-1	Ford Cosworth DFR V8	BRA DNPQ	SMR DNPQ	MON DNPQ	MEX Ret	USA Ret	CAN DSQ	FRA 5	GBR DNPQ	GER Ret	HUN Ret	BEL 8	ITA DNPQ	POR 3	ESP DNPQ	JPN DNPQ	AUS DNPQ	12th	6
1990	Moneytron Onyx	Onyx ORE-1	Ford Cosworth DFR V8	USA DNQ	BRA DNQ	SMR	MON	CAN	MEX	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS	NC	0
1991	Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives	AGS JH25B	Ford Cosworth DFR V8	USA DNQ	BRA DNQ															NC	0
	Footwork	Footwork FA12	Porsche V12			SMR	MON	CAN Ret	MEX DNQ
		Footwork FA12C	Ford Cosworth DFR V8							FRA DNQ	GBR DNQ	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1983	Sorga S.A. / Joest Racing	Klaus Ludwig Bob Wollek	Porsche 956	C	354	6th	6th
1984	New-Man Joest Racing	Jean-Louis Schlesser Maurizio de Narváez	Porsche 956	C1	170	DNF	DNF
1990	Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd.	Dave Kennedy Pierre Dieudonné	Mazda 787	GTP	147	DNF	DNF
1991	Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd. Oreca	Dave Kennedy Maurizio Sandro Sala	Mazda 787B	C2	355	6th	6th
1992	Trust Racing Team	George Fouché Steven Andskär	Toyota 92C-V	C2	336	5th	1st
1997	Joest Racing	Michele Alboreto Tom Kristensen	TWR Porsche WSC-95	LMP	361	1st	1st
1998	Porsche AG Joest Racing	Michele Alboreto Yannick Dalmas	Porsche LMP1-98	LMP1	107	DNF	DNF
1999	Audi Sport UK Ltd.	Stéphane Ortelli Christian Abt	Audi R8C	LMGTP	55	DNF	DNF
2000	Johansson-Matthews Racing	Guy Smith Jim Matthews	Reynard 2KQ-LM-Judd	LMP900	133	DNF	DNF
2001	Johansson Motorsport	Tom Coronel Patrick Lemarié	Audi R8	LMP900	35	DNF	DNF
2003	Champion Racing	Emanuele Pirro JJ Lehto	Audi R8	LMP900	372	3rd	1st
2006	Racing for Holland	Jan Lammers Alex Yoong	Dome S101Hb-Judd	LMP1	182	DNF	DNF
2007	Courage Compétition	Jean-Marc Gounon Guillaume Moreau	Courage LC70-AER	LMP1	175	DNF	DNF
2008	Epsilon Euskadi	Jean-Marc Gounon Shinji Nakano	Epsilon Euskadi EE1-Judd	LMP1	158	DNF	DNF
2012	Gulf Racing Middle East	Fabien Giroix Ludovic Badey	Lola B12/80-Nissan	LMP2	92	DNF	DNF

American open–wheel results

(key)

CART

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
1992	Bettenhausen	SRF	PHX	LBH	IND	DET 3	POR	MIL	NHA 10	TOR 11	MIC	CLE 9	ROA Ret	VAN 3	MDO 6	NAZ Ret	LS 11		14th	47
1993	Bettenhausen	SRF 13	PHX Ret	LBH Ret	IND 11	MIL Ret	DET Ret	POR Ret	CLE 4	TOR Ret	MIC Ret	NHA 14	ROA Ret	VAN 3	MDO Ret	NAZ 7	LS 6		13th	43
1994	Bettenhausen	SRF 5	PHX 4	LBH Ret	IND 15	MIL 26	DET Ret	POR 8	CLE 5	TOR 14	MIC Ret	MDO 12	NHA Ret	VAN Ret	ROA 8	NAZ 5	LS 12		11th	57
1995	Bettenhausen	MIA Ret	SRF Ret	PHX Ret	LBH 6	NAZ 3	IND 16	MIL 21	DET 11	POR Ret	ROA 10	TOR 14	CLE 8	MIC 6	MDO Ret	NHA Ret	VAN 4	LS 14	13th	60
1996	Bettenhausen	MIA Ret	RIO Ret	SRF 6	LBH Ret	NAZ 19	500 Ret	MIL Ret	DET 7	POR 9	CLE 12	TOR Ret	MIC 5	MDO 11	ROA 4	VAN Ret	LS Ret		15th	43

Indy 500 results

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
1993	Penske	Chevrolet	6th	11th	Bettenhausen
1994	Penske	Ilmor	27th	15th	Bettenhausen
1995	Reynard	Cosworth	31st	16th	Bettenhausen

External links

• Official website

Preceded by: Chico Serra

British Formula Three Champion 1980

Succeeded by: Jonathan Palmer

Preceded by: Jeff Andretti

CART Rookie of the Year 1992

Succeeded by: Nigel Mansell

Preceded by: Manuel Reuter Davy Jones Alexander Wurz

Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1997 with: Michele Alboreto Tom Kristensen

Succeeded by: Laurent Aïello Allan McNish Stéphane Ortelli

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