BIOGRAPHY

M A G N U S S E N , Jan (DK)
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Born:                4 July 1973
Place of birth:      Roskilde
Height:              1.70m
Weight:              58 kg
Marital status:      Single
Children:            1 child, Kevin, 23 
                     months
Learned profession:  -
Hobbies:             Karts/gliding/flying 
                     model airplanes
Sports:              Golf, weight training
Favourite music:     Dance/pop
Favourite singers:   -
Favourite drink:     Coca-Cola
Favourite food:      MacDonalds
Dream:               To be F1 world 
                     champion
Start racing career: 1984 - Karts
First racing car:    1991 Formula Ford 
                     1600 championship
First success:       1985 Danish National 
                     Kart championship
Most memorable
experience:          1992 - Winning FF1600 
                     Festival - Brands 
                     Hatch

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SOURCE: Darren Galpin
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~py3dlg/motorsport/
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McLaren International - Jan Magnussen
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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 his
second season as test driver for Marlboro
McLaren Mercedes.

From very early on in his motor racing
career, Jan has displayed enormous
potentialand 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, andwas subsequently
signed by Marlboro McLaren Mercedes to 
become the team's test driver in 1995.

He was called up at short notice to make
his Grand Prix debut that same year at the
Pacific Grand Prix while race driver Mika
Hakkinen recovered from an appendectomy,
and impressed the whole F1 fraternity with
a Top Ten finish and an incredible maturity

He also competed in the DTM championship
with the Mercedes-Benz AMG team, winning
one race. Jan is 22 and has a 3-year-old
son, Kevin from his girlfriend Britt
Larsson.

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SOURCE: 1995 TAG/McLaren Marketing Services
        Limited
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RACING CAREER:

M A G N U S S E N , Jan (DK)
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1985 - National Karting Minipop Champion
1986 - Pop 2 National Karting Champion
1987 - FIA/CIK Junior World Karting 
       Champion
1988 - Winner of Australian Karting Grand 
       Prix
1989 - FIA/CIK Junior World Karting 
       Champion
1990 - FIA/CIK Formula K World Champion, 
       Danish and Scandinavian Kart
       Champion
1991 - 2nd Scandinavian Kart Championship, 
       runner-up, single seater debut in
       Formula Ford at the Jyllands-Ringen
1992 - UK FF1600, 3rd, 7 wins. Winner of 
       FF1600 Festival, Brands Hatch
1993 - Vauxhall Lotus Euroseries, 4th Opel 
       Lotus British F3, Paul Stewart
       Racing, 2 races
1994 - British F3 champion, Paul Stewart 
       Racing, 14 wins of 18 races
       Marlboro-McLaren-Peugeot test driver
1995 - 1 F1 GP (McLaren). Finished 8th in 
       pacific GP at Aida.
       DTM (Mercedes), 49 points, 8th. 
       (3rd R2 Singen, 4th R1 Singen)
       ITC (Mercedes), 83 points, 2nd, 1 
       win (R2 Estoril), (2nd R2 Helsinki,
       R1 Estoril, R1 Magny Cours). Missed 
       races at Donington due to broken
       leg.


F1 Statistics (at the end of 1995) 
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Grand Prix Starts:  1 
Grand Prix Points:  0
Grand Prix Wins:    0 
Pole Positions:     0 

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SOURCE: Darren Galpin
(http://www.bath.ac.uk/~py3dlg/motorsport/)
and 
1995 TAG/McLaren Marketing Services Limited
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