86 Stats in 86 Days Until 86th 24 Hours of Le Mans – Day 72, Previous Races for Drivers in 2018 Race (June 1, 2018)

The 86th annual 24 Hours of Le Mans is 15 days away! This is the 72nd 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 list of the number of previous races for the drivers entered in this year’s race. Jan Lammers, who won the race overall in 1988 with Johnny Dumfries and Andy Wallace, has competed in the most races of any driver scheduled to compete in the 2018 race, with 23. Olivier Beretta is next on the list with 21 previous races. Twenty drivers have competed in at least 10 races, while twice that many, 40, are competing in the race for the first time.

Previous Races for Drivers in 2018 Race

- 23 races: 1 (Jan Lammers)

- 21 races: 1 (Olivier Beretta)

- 19 races: 1 (Jan Magnussen)

- 18 races: 1 (Pedro Lamy)

- 17 races: 1 (Oliver Gavin)

- 16 races: 1 (Stephane Sarrazin)

- 15 races: 2 (Darren Turner, Jorg Bergmeister)

- 14 races: 1 (Patrick Long)

- 12 races: 5 (Tracy Krohn, Nic Jonsson, Marcel Fassler, Antonio Garcia, Jeroen Bleekemolen)

- 11 races: 4 (Sebastien Bourdais, Timo Bernhard, Stefan Mucke, Richard Lietz)

- 10 races: 2 (Nicolas Lapierre, Olivier Pla)

- 9 races: 6 (Andre Lotterer, Neel Jani, Toni Vilander, Gianmaria Bruni, Patrick Pilet, Tommy Milner)

- 8 races: 6 (Tristan Gommendy, Roman Rusinov, Julien Canal, Mike Rockenfeller, Giancarlo Fisichella, Christian Ried)

- 7 races: 6 (Dominik Kraihamer, Loic Duval, Pierre Thirlet, Richard Westbrook, Frederic Makowiecki, Fabio Babini)

- 6 races: 7 (Kazuki Nakajima, Sebastien Buemi, Andrea Bertolini, David Heinemeier Hansson, Tony Kanaan, Dirk Muller, Matt Griffin)

- 5 races: 8 (Bruno Senna, Mathias Beche, Mark Patterson, Francois Perrodo, Ho-Pin Tung, Jonathan Hirschi, Nick Tandy, Paul Dalla Lana)

- 4 races: 15 (Mike Conway, Alex Brundle, Vincent Capillaire, Viktor Shaytar, Filipe Albuquerque, Nathanael Berthon, David Cheng, Ricky Taylor, Andy Priaulx, Ryan Briscoe, Davide Rigon, Sam Bird, Nicki Thiim, Harry Tincknell, Erik Maris)

- 3 races: 20 (Vitaly Petrov, Oliver Turvey, Kamui Kobayashi, Mikhail Aleshin, Oliver Webb, Leo Roussel, Paul-Loup Chatin, Joey Hand, Maxime Martin, James Calado, Kevin Estre, Michael Christensen, Earl Bamber, Marco Sorensen, Pipo Derani, Ben Keating, Spencer Pumpelly, Khaled Al Qubaisi, Mathias Lauda, Cooper MacNeil)

- 2 races: 17 (Gustavo Menezes, Will Stevens, Memo Rojas, Timothe Buret, Scott Dixon, Alessandro Pier Guidi, Augusto Farfus, Jonathan Adam, Billy Johnson, Laurens Vanthoor, Weng Sun Mok, Michael Wainwright, Keita Sawa, Jeff Segal, Francesco Castellacci, Ben Barker, Christina Nielsen)

- 1 race: 32 (Henrik Hedman, Jose Maria Lopez, Ben Hanley, Thomas Laurent, Roberto Lacorte, Roberto Gonzalez, Giorgio Sernagiotto, Thomas Dagoneau, Giedo van der Garde, Paul Lafargue, Jean-Eric Vergne, Pierre Nicolet, Stephane Richelmi, Andrea Pizzitola, Andre Negrao, Matthieu Vaxiviere, Enzo Guibbert, Jose Gutierrez, James Allen, Hugo de Sadeleer, Phil Hanson, Daniel Serra, Alexander Sims, Miguel Molina, Philipp Eng, Alex Lynn, Thomas Flohr, Liam Griffin, Alex Davison, Salih Yoluc, Euan Hankey, Matteo Cairoli)

- 0 races: 42 (Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso, Mike Simpson, Renger van der Zande, Tom Dillman, Oliver Rowland, Egor Orudzhev, Charlie Robertson, Matevos Isaakyan, Frits van Eerd, Ate de Jong, Juan Pablo Montoya, Tacksung Kim, Romano Ricci, Erwin Creed, Pastor Maldonado, Paul di Resta, Nicholas Boulle, Come Ledogar, Norman Nato, Jazeman Jaafar, Felipe Nasr, Nabil Jeffri, Will Owen, Weiron Tan, Gabriel Aubry, Harrison Newey, Martin Tomczyk, Nicky Catsburg, Antonio Felix da Costa, Sven Muller, Antonio Giovinazzi, Motoaki Ishikawa, Tim Pappas, Egidio Perfetti, Patrick Lindsey, Eddie Cheever III, Giorgio Roda, Matt Campbell, Luca Stolz, Charlie Eastwood, Julien Andlauer)