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JJ Lehto
Lehto at the 2004 Petit Le Mans
Born	Jyrki Juhani Järvilehto (1966-01-31) 31 January 1966 (age 58) Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Finnish
Active years	1989–1994
Teams	Onyx, Italia, Sauber, Benetton
Entries	70 (62 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	1
Career points	10
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	1989 Portuguese Grand Prix
Last entry	1994 Australian Grand Prix
American Le Mans Series career
Years active	1999–2005
Teams	BMW, Cadillac, Champion
Starts	60
Championships	1 (2004)
Wins	23
Podiums	49
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1990–1991, 1995–1997, 1999, 2002–2005
Teams	RLR, Porsche, McLaren, Gulf, BMW, Cadillac, Champion
Best finish	1st (1995, 2005)
Class wins	3 (1995, 2003, 2005)

Jyrki Juhani Järvilehto (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈjyrki ˈjærʋilehto]; born 31 January 1966), commonly known as JJ Lehto, is a Finnish former racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1989 to 1994. In sportscar racing, Lehto won the American Le Mans Series in 2004 and is a two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1995 and 2005, as well as a two-time winner of the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1999 and 2005.

Born and raised in Espoo, Lehto began competitive kart racing aged eight before graduating to Formula Ford in 1981. A protégé of 1982 World Drivers' Champion Keke Rosberg, Lehto won several national and continental Formula Ford titles prior to dominating the 1988 British Formula Three Championship with Pacific. Lehto competed at 70 Formula One Grands Prix for Onyx, Italia, Sauber and Benetton, making his debut at the 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix with the former. He achieved a podium finish with Italia at the 1991 San Marino Grand Prix.

Upon retiring from motor racing, Lehto became a commentator and pundit for MTV3. In June 2010, Lehto was injured in a boating incident in Ekenäs, during which an unnamed associate was killed. Lehto was found guilty of negligent homicide and driving under the influence, and sentenced to 28 months in prison. He appealed the conviction to the Turku Court of Appeal, who overturned the verdict in November 2012, due to inconclusive evidence that Lehto was driving the boat.

Early career

Like many racing drivers Lehto began in karts at age 8, winning numerous events, before graduating to Formula Ford at the early age of 15. A switch to single seaters saw him dominate the Scandinavian Formula Ford. He then won the British and European Formula 2000 championship in 1987 and went on to win the coveted British Formula 3 title in 1988, driving for Pacific Racing. In 1989 Lehto drove in Formula 3000, again for Pacific Racing. The season was not successful and he failed to score any podium finishes. He did not participate in the last race which was held in Dijon-Prenois. He was a protégé of Finnish 1982 Formula One World Champion Keke Rosberg, who first suggested that Jyrki Järvilehto should abbreviate his name to the more manageable JJ Lehto.

Formula One career

In 1989 Lehto tested for Ferrari before making his Formula One debut for the Onyx team as a late-season replacement for Bertrand Gachot. Though he failed to prequalify for his first race at Estoril he impressed with his speed in the tough sessions and made his first start in the following meeting. In the wet season finale at Adelaide he ran as high as 5th before retiring with waterlogged electrics. Over the summer Onyx were sold to Swiss racer turned businessman Peter Monteverdi. Lehto, marked by many as a star of the future, was paired with Gregor Foitek but financial difficulties hampered his season, leading to the team's withdrawal after the Hungarian Grand Prix (one of five events the Finn failed to qualify for – though he had been hindered by the team's poor preparation, including a driveshaft being fitted the wrong way around for several meetings, and favouritism towards Foitek, whose father was involved with the buyout).

For 1991 he was signed by the ambitious Scuderia Italia team, financed by Beppe Lucchini with a Dallara chassis, Judd V10 engines and Emanuele Pirro in the second car. Due to poor results in 1990 the cars had to prequalify but soon established themselves as decent midfield runners. In the wet San Marino Grand Prix Lehto impressed by lasting in a race of attrition to finish 3rd, scoring his first F1 points. He impressed elsewhere but did not score again through poor reliability and bad luck (only finishing on four other occasions). He stayed with the team in 1992, now paired with Pierluigi Martini and using Ferrari V12 engines but the new Dallara B192 chassis had severe handling problems. Lehto's best result was 7th at Spa, his worst a failure to qualify at the Hungaroring.

He landed the second seat (alongside Austrian Karl Wendlinger) at the new, much-anticipated Sauber team for 1993, running Ilmor engines. The season started very well as Lehto survived a late downpour at Kyalami to score 5th place on the team's debut, then finished 4th at Imola despite a late engine failure. However, after a collision with Wendlinger at Monaco his relationship with both his teammate and Sauber became frosty and his season tailed off with no more points scored.

For 1994 he saw off competition from Michele Alboreto and Luca Badoer to land the second seat at Benetton alongside Michael Schumacher. However, he injured his neck testing the new B194 in pre-season with test driver Jos Verstappen taking his place for the first two rounds of the championship. Lehto returned to the cockpit for the ill-fated San Marino Grand Prix despite some question marks over his fitness. He qualified 5th but stalled on the grid, his car being struck from behind by Pedro Lamy's Lotus. Despite running 3rd in Spain before an engine failure and scoring a point in Canada (after the disqualification of Christian Fittipaldi) it was clear his injuries had not healed fully and he was replaced once again by Verstappen for the French Grand Prix. He returned to the cockpit for the Italian and Portuguese rounds in place of the suspended Schumacher but did not impress and was released entirely soon afterwards when the team signed Johnny Herbert. This freed him up to drive in the last two rounds for Sauber – Wendlinger's injuries from an accident in practice before the 1994 Monaco GP had failed to heal and his previous replacement Andrea de Cesaris was unreachable.

Post-Formula One career

After his Formula One career stalled, and advised by his manager Keke Rosberg, Lehto joined the German Touring Car Championship, DTM, in 1995 and 1996. Even though rated highly, victories eluded him, but this loss was probably made up by his successes in GT and sports car racing.

He was a late addition to the 1995 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a McLaren F1 GTR, but he won the race outright, at his third attempt, sharing the car with Yannick Dalmas and Masanori Sekiya. Lehto was an integral part of the win, gaining the lead for the team by driving a few stints during the rainy night. While others were driving cautiously, Lehto was seen to be sliding the car, lapping at times 30sec faster than everyone else. He had three more guest appearances in the same car the next year, winning another race, before he got picked up by BMW to join the factory squad in the inaugural FIA GT season, partnering Steve Soper. Even though success came initially easily, including a win in front of his home crowd at the Thunder In Helsinki event, the might of Mercedes-Benz caught up with the McLarens and left Lehto conceding the title to former DTM rival Bernd Schneider.

After an unsuccessful 1998 campaign as a Mercedes-Benz factory driver in the American-based single-seater CART series with Team Hogan, Lehto stayed Stateside but returned to the BMW camp, which entered their V12 LMR sportscar racer in the American Le Mans Series, ALMS. Even though he ended up winning four races, Lehto lost the title on the account of a formality (he was not awarded the points gained for winning the 12 Hours of Sebring because he did not have an American racing license at that time). 2000 proved less successful as the near-unbeatable Audi R8 entered the scene.

BMW and Lehto stayed in the ALMS series, but stepped down to the GT-class with the controversial M3 GTR. The team was virtually unbeatable but Lehto lost out in the championship to the driver he shared the car with, Jörg Müller, as the latter had more fastest laps and laps in the lead to his name.

He found the M3 already not fast enough to his liking, so it was not surprising when Lehto turned down BMW's offer to join them in the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) the following year, having to race a near standard 320i tin-top racer. 2002 started with unemployment, but he was picked up by Cadillac as an addition to their Northstar LMP sportscar programme at Le Mans and in the ALMS series. Although the car was not on the pace of the Audi R8s or Panoz LMPs, the car's fortunes did seem to turn for the better when it started to notch up regular podium finishes in the second half of the year. Cadillac's mother company General Motors pulled the plug on the project, leaving Lehto again without a job if it had not been for Champion Racing, who offered him a drive in their Audi R8.

Lehto won four times in 2003 (including the prestigious Petit Le Mans event at Road Atlanta), but it was not until the factory Audi squad left the ALMS series that he was finally able to reap full rewards in 2004 and score his first championship success since his 1988 title in the British Formula Three, picking up six victories on the way.

A disappointing second half of the 2005 season prevented him from scoring double championship success, but nonetheless he managed to end his last year in full-time racing on an impressive note when winning both the 12 Hours of Sebring and the 24 Hours of Le Mans again.

In 2006 it was announced the Solaroli team would purchase two Porsche RS Spyders to be entered in the ALMS series. One car would be driven by Lehto, partnered by Johnny Herbert. However, even though getting confirmation about the deal going through in early 2007, nothing ever materialised.

Lehto did show up at the 2007 edition of the 24 Hours of Daytona to team up with Colin Braun and Max Papis in the Krohn Racing Pontiac-Riley. His first participation in the event was not a success though as the car suffered from a misfire, and after having spent a long time in the pits, finished 17th.

In 2008 he made an unexpected return to the race tracks when he showed up at the Malaysian Grand Prix to drive in the Speedcar support race, taking over the No. 90 car previously vacated by Narain Karthikeyan.

In 2001 Lehto joined Finnish television as an expert race commentator and remained a mainstay at MTV3's Finnish Formula One race broadcasts (and also for the pay-channel MTV3 MAX) until 2010, alongside Oskari Saari.

Boating incident

On 17 June 2010, Lehto was involved in a boating incident in Ekenäs. The incident happened when the boat carrying Lehto and his friend, whose identity was not released, hit the base of a bridge in a canal. Lehto was injured and the other man was killed in the incident. Lehto had been drinking throughout the day and was heavily intoxicated at the time of the incident.

In January 2011, Ilta-Sanomat reported that the police investigations had concluded that no one besides Lehto could have been driving the boat at the time of the incident. Lehto faced charges of negligent homicide, reckless driving and driving under the influence. Regardless of the pending trial, Lehto made a return to sportscasting on the Finnish sports-channel URHOtv [fi], commentating on a DTM event. On 14 December 2011, the District Court found Lehto guilty of drunk sailing and negligent homicide, and sentenced him to two years and four months in prison. Lehto however appealed the decision, and on 30 November 2012, the Turku Court of Appeal cleared him of all charges relating to the incident, finding the evidence regarding who had been driving the boat inconclusive.

Racing record

Career summary

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Complete British Formula 3 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Macau Grand Prix results

Year	Team	Chassis/Engine	Qualifying	Race1	Race2	Overall ranking
1988	Pacific Racing w/ Marlboro Theodore Racing	Reynard・Toyota	2nd	4	DNF	DNF
Source:

Complete International Formula 3000 results

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Complete Formula One results

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Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1990	Richard Lloyd Racing Italya Sport	Manuel Reuter James Weaver	Porsche 962C GTi	C1	181	DNF	DNF
1991	Porsche Kremer Racing	Manuel Reuter Harri Toivonen	Porsche 962CK6	C2	343	9th	9th
1995	Kokusai Kaihatsu Racing	Yannick Dalmas Masanori Sekiya	McLaren F1 GTR	GT1	298	1st	1st
1996	Gulf Racing GTC Racing	Ray Bellm James Weaver	McLaren F1 GTR	GT1	323	9th	7th
1997	Team BMW Motorsport BMW Team Schnitzer	Steve Soper Nelson Piquet	McLaren F1 GTR	GT1	236	DNF	DNF
1999	Team BMW Motorsport	Tom Kristensen Jörg Müller	BMW V12 LMR	LMP	304	DNF	DNF
2002	Team Cadillac	Éric Bernard Emmanuel Collard	Cadillac Northstar LMP02	LMP900	334	12th	10th
2003	Champion Racing	Emanuele Pirro Stefan Johansson	Audi R8	LMP900	372	3rd	1st
2004	ADT Champion Racing	Marco Werner Emanuele Pirro	Audi R8	LMP900	368	3rd	3rd
2005	ADT Champion Racing	Tom Kristensen Marco Werner	Audi R8	LMP900	370	1st	1st
Sources:

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft/Masters results

Complete International Touring Car Championship

American open-wheel racing results

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CART

Complete American Le Mans Series results

References

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JJ Lehto sporting positions

Sporting positions Preceded byJohnny Herbert British Formula Three Champion 1988 Succeeded byDavid Brabham Preceded byYannick Dalmas Hurley Haywood Mauro Baldi Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1995 With: Yannick Dalmas & Masanori Sekiya Succeeded byManuel Reuter Davy Jones Alexander Wurz Preceded byInaugural Race of Champions Nations' Cup Winner 1999 With: Tommi Mäkinen & Kari Tiainen Succeeded byRégis Laconi Yvan Muller Gilles Panizzi Preceded byFrank Biela Marco Werner American Le Mans Series Champion 2004 With: Marco Werner Succeeded byFrank Biela Emanuele Pirro Preceded bySeiji Ara Tom Kristensen Rinaldo Capello Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2005 With: Marco Werner & Tom Kristensen Succeeded byFrank Biela Emanuele Pirro Marco Werner Awards and achievements Preceded byJohnny Herbert Autosport National Racing Driver of the Year 1988 Succeeded byAllan McNish v t e Formula One drivers from Finland Leo Kinnunen (1974) Mikko Kozarowitzky (1977) Keke Rosberg (1978–1986) JJ Lehto (1989–1994) Mika Häkkinen (1991–2001) Mika Salo (1994–2000, 2002) Kimi Räikkönen (2001–2009, 2012–2021) Heikki Kovalainen (2007–2013) Valtteri Bottas (2013–2024) v t e Winners of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Nine-time Tom Kristensen Six-time Jacky Ickx Five-time Derek Bell Frank Biela Emanuele Pirro Four-time Sébastien Buemi Yannick Dalmas Olivier Gendebien Henri Pescarolo Three-time Woolf Barnato Rinaldo Capello Luigi Chinetti Marcel Fässler Brendon Hartley Hurley Haywood Phil Hill Al Holbert André Lotterer Klaus Ludwig Allan McNish Kazuki Nakajima Benoît Tréluyer Marco Werner Two-time Fernando Alonso Earl Bamber Timo Bernhard Tim Birkin Ivor Bueb Romain Dumas Ron Flockhart Jean-Pierre Jaussaud Gérard Larrousse JJ Lehto Manuel Reuter André Rossignol Raymond Sommer Hans-Joachim Stuck Gijs van Lennep Jean-Pierre Wimille Alexander Wurz One-time Aïello Alboreto Amon Ara Attwood Baldi Bandini Barilla Barth Benjafield Benoist Bianchi Bloch Blundell Bouchut D. Brabham G. Brabham Brundle Calado Chaboud Clement Cobb Conway Davis de Courcelles Dickens Duff Dumfries Duval Étancelin Fontés Foyt Frère Fuoco Gachot Gené Giovinazzi González Gregory Guichet Gurney Hamilton Hawthorn Hélary Herbert Herrmann G. Hill Hindmarsh Hirakawa Howe Hülkenberg Jani Johansson Jones Kidston Kobayashi Krages Lagache Lammers Lang Léonard Lieb López Marko Martini Mass McLaren Mitchell-Thomson Molina J. Nielsen N. Nielsen Nuvolari Oliver Ortelli Pier Guidi Pironi Riess Rindt Rockenfeller Rodríguez Rolt Rondeau J. Rosier L. Rosier Rubin Salvadori Sanderson Scarfiotti Schuppan Sekiya Shelby Smith Tandy Trémoulet Trintignant Vaccarella Veyron Walker Wallace Warwick Weidler Whitehead B. Whittington D. Whittington Winkelhock v t e Winners of the 12 Hours of Sebring Six-time Tom Kristensen Five-time Rinaldo Capello Four-time Frank Biela Pipo Derani Allan McNish Three-time Hans-Joachim Stuck Mario Andretti Marco Werner Two-time Bob Akin Sébastien Bourdais Geoff Brabham Derek Daly Loïc Duval Andy Evans Juan Manuel Fangio Juan Manuel Fangio II Olivier Gendebien Hurley Haywood Hans Herrmann Phil Hill Al Holbert Jacky Ickx Stefan Johansson Nicolas Lapierre JJ Lehto Alex Lynn Emanuele Pirro Brian Redman Jordan Taylor Eric van de Poele Johannes van Overbeek Fermín Vélez Andy Wallace Phil Walters One-time Aïello Aitken Alboreto Baker Baldi Bamber Barbosa Barbour Behra Bernhard Bianchi Bomarito Bonnier Gary Brabham Brown Castellotti Collard Collins Curran Daigh Dalmas Davidson de Narváez Delétraz Dumas Dyer Earl Elford Fässler Fitch Fittipaldi Fitzpatrick Foyt Franchitti Frisselle Garretson Gartner Gené Giunti Gray Gregg Gurney Hall Hawthorn Helmick Herbert Herta Heyer Hunter-Reay Jani Jarvis Kaffer Keyser Kulok Larrousse Leven Lloyd Ludwig Luyendyk Maglioli Mass McFarlin McLaren Mendez Miles Millen Moffat Moretti Morton Moss Mullen Müller Nasr Nierop O'Connell Oliver Pace Panis Parkes Paul Jr. Paul Sr. Pescatori Peter Pruett Rahal Robinson Rojas Ruby Scarfiotti H. Sharp S. Sharp Siffert Sims Surtees R. Taylor W. Taylor Theys Tincknell Tréluyer Vaccarella Vautier Wollek Woods Wurz v t e British Formula 3 & Formula Junior champions Three-time Don Parker Jim Russell Dave Walker Roger Williamson Two-time Tony Brise Jim Clark Brian Henton Harry Stiller Trevor Taylor One-time Alguersuari Arundell Asmer Banting Barrichello Brabham Brandon Burt Byrne Cao Conway Daly Dean Dumfries Fenning de Ferran Firman Fittipaldi Gavin Giacomelli Gugelmin Haberfeld Häkkinen Harvey Hynes Johansson Kane Keegan Kerr King Ledbrook Lehto Leston Magnussen van der Merwe Moss Nasr Nilsson von Opel Pace Palmer Parente Piquet Piquet Jr. Pitcher Pizzonia Ricciardo Sato Schenken Senna Serra South Stewart I. Taylor Trimmer Vergne Wallace Warwick v t e Winners of Autosport's National Driver of the Year Racing winner 1982: Tommy Byrne 1983: Martin Brundle 1984: Johnny Dumfries 1985: Andy Rouse 1986: Andy Wallace 1987: Johnny Herbert 1988: JJ Lehto 1989: Allan McNish 1990: Robb Gravett 1991: David Coulthard 1992: Tim Harvey 1993: Kelvin Burt 1994: Gabriele Tarquini 1995: John Cleland 1996: Frank Biela 1997: Alain Menu 1998: Rickard Rydell 1999: Laurent Aïello 2000: Antônio Pizzonia 2001: Takuma Sato 2002: Robbie Kerr 2003: Nelson Piquet Jr. 2004: James Thompson 2005: Matt Neal 2006: Mike Conway 2007: Jason Plato Rally winner 1982: Malcolm Patrick 1983: Darryl Weidner 1984: David Llewellin 1985: Mark Lovell 1986: Ken Wood 1987: Louise Aitken-Walker 1988: Malcolm Wilson 1989–90: David Llewellin 1991–92: Colin McRae 1993: Richard Burns 1994: Malcolm Wilson 1995: Alister McRae 1996: Gwyndaf Evans 1997: Mark Higgins 1998: Martin Rowe 1999: Tapio Laukkanen 2000: Mark Higgins 2001–02: Justin Dale 2003: Martin Rowe 2004: Guy Wilks 2005–07: Mark Higgins Combined winner 2008: Oliver Turvey 2009: Colin Turkington 2010: Jason Plato 2011: Matt Neal 2012: Gordon Shedden 2013: Andrew Jordan 2014: Colin Turkington 2015–16: Gordon Shedden 2017: Lando Norris 2018: Dan Ticktum 2019: Colin Turkington 2020: Harry King 2021: Ashley Sutton 2022: Tom Ingram v t e Onyx Grand Prix Founder Mike Earle Drivers Stefan Johansson JJ Lehto Bertrand Gachot Gregor Foitek Formula One cars ORE-1 ORE-1B v t e Dallara Automobili Founder Giampaolo Dallara Group 5 cars 1300 1600 Icsunonove Can-Am cars WD1 Formula Three cars Emiliani 380 381 382 383 384 F385 F386 F387 F388 F389 F390 F391 F392 F393 F394 F395 F396 F397 F398 F399 F300 F301 F302 F303 F304 F305 F306 F307 F308 F309 F310 F311 F312 F313 F314 F315 F316 F317 320 324 Group 6 cars LC1 Group C cars LC2 Formula One cars 3087 F188 F189 F190 F191 F192 RA099 F110 VF-16 VF-17 VF-18 VF-19 VF-20 VF-21 VF-22 VF-23 VF-24 Le Mans Prototype cars 333 SP SP1 GC21 R18 P217 Group GT1 cars F50 GT IndyCar Series cars IR-7 IR-00 IR-03/IR-05 DW12 IR-27 Indy NXT cars IPS IL-15 Super Formula cars SF14 SF19 SF23 GP2 Series (2005–2016) later FIA Formula 2 Championship (2017–present) cars GP2/05 GP2/08 GP2/11 F2 2018 F2 2024 Formula Renault 3.5 (2005–2015) later Formula V8 3.5 (2016–2017) cars T05 T08 T12 GP3 Series (2010–2018) later FIA Formula 3 Championship (2019–present) cars GP3/10 GP3/13 GP3/16 F3 2019 F3 2025 FIA Formula E Championship cars SRT 01E SRT05e Autonomous racing AV-21 AV-24 EAV24 Le Mans Hypercars 499P Le Mans Daytona h cars M Hybrid V8 V-Series.R List Dallara cars v t e Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber Founder Peter Sauber Current Alessandro Alunni Bravi Mattia Binotto James Key Iñaki Rueda Beat Zehnder 2024 drivers Zhou Guanyu Valtteri Bottas 2025 drivers Gabriel Bortoleto Nico Hülkenberg 2024 reserve drivers Zane Maloney Théo Pourchaire Sauber Academy drivers Léna Bühler Zane Maloney Taym Saleh Carrie Schreiner Théo Pourchaire Notable personnel 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