86 Stats in 86 Days Until 86th 24 Hours of Le Mans – Day 79, First Races for Drivers Entered for 2018 Race (June 8, 2018)

The 86th annual 24 Hours of Le Mans is eight days away! This is the 79th 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 are a list of the first races for the drivers who are entered for the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans.

First Races for Drivers Entered for 2018 Race

- 1983: 1 (Jan Lammers)

- 1996: 1 (Olivier Beretta)

- 1997: 1 (Pedro Lamy)

- 1999: 3 (Jan Magnussen, Sebastien Bourdais, Dirk Muller)

- 2000: 1 (Fabio Babini)

- 2001: 3 (Stephane Sarrazin, Oliver Gavin, Romain Dumas)

- 2002: 2 (Timo Bernhard, Jorg Bergmeister)

- 2003: 2 (Tristan Gommendy, Darren Turner)

- 2004: 2 (Mike Rockenfeller, Patrick Long)

- 2006: 7 (Tracy Krohn, Nic Jonsson, Marcel Fassler, Antonio Garcia, Tommy Milner, Jeroen Bleekemolen, Christian Ried)

- 2007: 4 (Vitaly Petrov, Nicolas Lapierre, Richard Lietz, Stefan Mucke)

- 2008: 6 (Loic Duval, Romain Rusinov, Gianmaria Bruni, Toni Vilander, Olivier Pla, Alex Davison)

- 2009: 4 (Andre Lotterer, Neel Jani, Bruno Senna, Patrick Pilet)

- 2010: 6 (Julien Canal, Jonathan Hirschi, Richard Westbrook, Andy Priaulx, Augusto Farfus, Giancarlo Fisichella)

- 2011: 7 (Dominik Kraihamer, Pierre Thiriet, Nick Tandy, Joey Hand, Frederic Makowiecki, Maxime Martin, Spencer Pumpelly)

- 2012: 7 (Kazuki Nakajima, Sebastien Buemi, Alex Brundle, Andrea Bertolini, David Heinemeier Hansson, Alexander Sims, Matt Griffin)

- 2013: 12 (Mathias Beche, Oliver Turvey, Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, Ho-Pin Tung, Mark Patterson, Francois Perrodo, Ricky Taylor, Thomas Dagoneau, Ryan Briscoe, Paul Dalla Lana, Cooper MacNeil)

- 2014: 13 (Oliver Webb, Leo Roussel, Viktor Shaytar, Vincent Capillaire, Filipe Albuquerque, Nathanael Berthon, David Cheng, Paul-Loup Chatin, Nicki Thiim, Harry Tincknell, Davide Rigon, Sam Bird, Erik Maris)

- 2015: 13 (Mikhail Aleshin, Earl Bamber, James Calado, Kevin Estre, Michael Christensen, Marco Sorensen, Pipo Derani, Laurens Vanthoor, Jeff Segal, Mathias Lauda, Ben Keating, Khaled Al Qubaisi, Francesco Castellacci)

- 2016: 18 (Gustavo Menezes, Will Stevens, Stephane Richelmi, Memo Rojas, Timothe Buret, Giedo van der Garde, Andrea Pizzitola, Jonathan Adam, Scott Dixon, Alessandro Pier Guidi, Billy Johnson, Philipp Eng, Weng Sun Mok, Michael Wainwright, Keita Sawa, Ben Barker, Christina Nielsen, Liam Griffin)

- 2017: 25 (Henrik Hedman, Jose Maria Lopez, Ben Hanley, Thomas Laurent, Roberto Lacorte, Roberto Gonzalez, Giorgio Sernagiotto, Paul Lafargue, Jean-Eric Vergne, Pierre Nicolet, Andre Negrao, Matthieu Vaxiviere, Enzo Guibbert, Jose Gutierrez, James Allen, Hugo de Sadeleer, Phil Hanson, Daniel Serra, Tony Kanaan, Miguel Molina, Alex Lynn, Thomas Flohr, Salih Yoluc, Euan Hankey, Matteo Cairoli)

- 2018: 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)