86 Stats in 86 Days Until 86th 24 Hours of Le Mans – Day 32, Birth Years By Winning Drivers (April 22, 2018)

The 86th annual 24 Hours of Le Mans is 55 days away! This is the 32nd 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 birth years by overall winning drivers. Three drivers are not included on this list: Rene Leonard, Andre Rossignol and Robert Bloch. Two years – 1961 and 1966 – produced the most different winners, with five each. A total of 70 different years, ranging from 1884 to 1990, have produced at least one race winner.

Birth Years By Winning Drivers

- 1961: 5 (Paolo Barilla, Andy Wallace, Manuel Reuter, Yannick Dalmas, Pierluigi Martini)

- 1966: 5 (Mark Blundell, Christophe Bouchut, Eric Helary, JJ Lehto, Marco Werner)

- 1923: 4 (Ivor Bueb, Ron Flockhart, Carroll Shelby, Ed Hugus)

- 1942: 4 (Jochen Rindt, Jackie Oliver, Gijs van Lennep, Henri Pescarolo)

- 1946: 4 (Don Whittington, Jean Rondeau, Al Holbert, Jochen Mass)

- 1949: 4 (Klaus Ludwig, Bill Whittington, John Winter, Masanori Sekiya)

- 1956: 4 (Jan Lammers, John Nielsen, Michele Alboreto, Stefan Johansson)

- 1964: 4 (Johnny Herbert, Davy Jones, Frank Biela, Rinaldo Capello)

- 1974: 4 (Alexander Wurz, Guy Smith, Seiji Ara, Marc Gene)

- 1895: 3 (John Duff, Woolf Barnato, Robert Benoist)

- 1896: 3 (Bernard Rubin, Henry Birkin, Philippe Etancelin)

- 1922: 3 (Fritz Riess, Jose Frolian Gonzalez, Roy Salvadori)

- 1940: 3 (Pedro Rodriguez, Richard Attwood, Gerard Larrousse)

- 1943: 3 (Chris Amon, Helmut Marko, Vern Schuppan)

- 1952: 3 (Didier Pironi, Stanley Dickens, Geoff Brabham)

- 1954: 3 (Price Cobb, Derek Warwick, Mauro Baldi)

- 1962: 3 (Volker Weidler, Bertrand Gachot, Emanuele Pirro)

- 1887: 2 (Dudley Benjafield, Sammy Davis)

- 1907: 2 (Johnny Hindmarsh, Eugene Chaboud)

- 1909: 2 (Jean Tremoulet, Hermann Lang)

- 1912: 2 (Luis Fontes, Peter Walker)

- 1917: 2 (Maurice Trintignant, Paul Frere)

- 1925: 2 (Jean-Louis Rosier, Ninian Sanderson)

- 1927: 2 (Phil Hill, Jean Guichet)

- 1929: 2 (Mike Hawthorn, Graham Hill)

- 1933: 2 (Ludovico Scarfiotti, Nino Vaccarella)

- 1935: 2 (Lorenzo Bandini, A.J. Foyt)

- 1937: 2 (Bruce McLaren, Jean-Pierre Jaussaud)

- 1969: 2 (Laurent Aiello, Allan McNish)

- 1976: 2 (Marcel Fassler, Benoit Treluyer)

- 1981: 2 (Timo Bernhard, Andre Lotterer)

- 1983: 2 (Mike Rockenfeller, Neel Jani)

- 1884: 1 (Earl Howe)

- 1885: 1 (Andre Lagache)

- 1886: 1 (Frank Clement)

- 1889: 1 (Gerard de Courcelles)

- 1892: 1 (Tazio Nuvolari)

- 1899: 1 (Glen Kidston)

- 1901: 1 (Luigi Chinetti)

- 1903: 1 (Pierre Veyron)

- 1905: 1 (Louis Rosier)

- 1906: 1 (Raymond Sommer)

- 1908: 1 (Jean-Pierre Wimille)

- 1913: 1 (Peter Mitchell-Thomson)

- 1914: 1 (Peter Whitehead)

- 1918: 1 (Tony Rolt)

- 1920: 1 (Duncan Hamilton)

- 1924: 1 (Olivier Gendebien)

- 1928: 1 (Hans Herrmann)

- 1931: 1 (Dan Gurney)

- 1932: 1 (Masten Gregory)

- 1934: 1 (Lucien Bianchi)

- 1941: 1 (Derek Bell)

- 1945: 1 (Jacky Ickx)

- 1947: 1 (Jurgen Barth)

- 1948: 1 (Hurley Haywood)

- 1951: 1 (Hans-Joachim Stuck)

- 1958: 1 (Johnny Dumfries)

- 1959: 1 (Martin Brundle)

- 1960: 1 (Joachim Winkelhock)

- 1965: 1 (David Brabham)

- 1967: 1 (Tom Kristensen)

- 1970: 1 (Stephane Ortelli)

- 1977: 1 (Romain Dumas)

- 1980: 1 (Marc Lieb)

- 1982: 1 (Loic Duval)

- 1984: 1 (Nick Tandy)

- 1987: 1 (Nico Hulkenberg)

- 1989: 1 (Brendon Hartley)

- 1990: 1 (Earl Bamber)