86 Stats in 86 Days Until 86th 24 Hours of Le Mans – Day 27, Drivers to Win Le Mans and 24 Hours of Spa (April 17, 2018)

The 86th annual 24 Hours of Le Mans is 60 days away! This is the 27th day of the 86 Stats in 86 Days Until the 86th 24 Hours of Le Mans blog.

Each day from now until the Friday before the 24 Hours of Le Mans, we’ll post a list of stats related to the race. Some are well-known statistics, while others are a little more in-depth.

Here is a look at 17 drivers who have overall victories in both the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Spa (several more have class victories in both).

Overall Victories by Drivers in Both 24 Hours of Le Mans and 24 Hours of Spa

- Jacky Ickx: 7 (6 Le Mans: 1969, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982; 1 Spa: 1966)

- Luigi Chinetti: 5 (3 Le Mans: 1932, 1934, 1949; 1 Spa: 1933, 1949)

- Hans-Joachim Stuck: 3 (2 Le Mans: 1986, 1987; 1 Spa: 1972)

- Christophe Bouchut: 3 (1 Le Mans: 1993; 2 Spa: 2001, 2002)

- Andre Lagache: 2 (1 Le Mans: 1923; 1 Spa: 1925)

- Rene Leonard: 2 (1 Le Mans: 1923; 1 Spa: 1925)

- Robert Benoist: 2 (1 Le Mans: 1937; 1 Spa: 1929)

- Raymond Sommer: 3 (2 Le Mans: 1932, 1933; 1 Spa: 1936)

- Mike Hawthorn: 2 (1 Le Mans: 1955; 1 Spa: 1953)

- Jochen Mass: 2 (1 Le Mans: 1989; 1 Spa: 1972)

- David Brabham: 2 (1 Le Mans: 2009; 1 Spa: 1991)

- Joachim Winkelhock: 2 (1 Le Mans: 1999; 1 Spa: 1995)

- Eric Helary: 2 (1 Le Mans: 1993; 1 Spa: 1997)

- Romain Dumas: 4 (2 Le Mans: 2010, 2016; 2 Spa: 2003, 2010)

- Stephane Ortelli: 2 (1 Le Mans: 1998; 1 Spa: 2003)

- Marc Lieb: 2 (1 Le Mans: 2016; 1 Spa: 2003)

- Marcel Fassler: 4 (3 Le Mans: 2011, 2012, 2014; 1 Spa: 2007)

Notes of Interest

- Luigi Chinetti and Romain Dumas are the only drivers to win both races in the same year. Dumas’s 2010 win at Le Mans came in a prototype, and 2010 win at Spa in a GT car.

- Several drivers have an overall win and class win in one or the other races, or class victories in both. Three notable examples are Belgian drivers Eric van de Poele and Pierre Dieudonne and French pilot Claude Ballot-Lena, who each own eight class wins between the two races.

- Van de Poele holds the all-time record for overall wins in the 24 Hours of Spa, with five. He’s also earned three class victories in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

- Meanwhile, Dieudonne is a three-time overall 24 Hours of Spa winner (four in class) and owns four class victories in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

- Ballot-Lena also owns eight class wins between the two, with seven class victories in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and a 24 Hours of Spa overall victory in 1969.

- Emmanuel Collard, Sebastien Bourdais, Lucas Luhr, Jorg Bergmeister and Wolf Henzler are also among drivers who have won the 24 Hours of Spa overall and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in class.

- Erwin Kremer won the 24 Hours of Spa in 1968 as a driver and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1979 as a car owner.

- Marc Lieb has seven class victories between the two races, with four class victories at Le Mans (one overall) and three class wins at Spa (one overall).