2002 FIA Sportscar Championship
The 2002 FIA Sportscar Championship was the second season of the FIA Sportscar Championship, an auto racing series regulated by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile and organized by the International Racing Series Ltd. It was the sixth season of the series dating back to the International Sports Racing Series of 1997. The series featured sports prototypes in two categories, SR1 and SR2, and awarded championships for drivers, teams, and manufacturers in each respective category. The series began on 7 April 2002 and ended on 22 September 2002 after six races held in Europe.
Jan Lammers (pictured in 2011), co-champion in the SR1 category
Johannes Antonius "Jan" Lammers is a Netherlands racecar driver, most notable for winning the 1988 24 Hours of Le Mans world endurance race, for Silk Cut Jaguar/TWR; after four seasons in Formula One racing, from 1979 through 1982, for the F1 teams of Shadow, ATS, Ensign and Theodore, respectively. After a world-record setting ten-year hiatus, Lammers made a brief Formula One comeback, for two races, with team March in 1992. Aside from racing in these two of the highest leagues of global auto-sports, Lammers has raced in an exceptionally wide number of racing series and competitions, domestic and abroad, over four decades.
Lammers at the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans
Lammers racing the Simca Rallye 2 at Zandvoort.
Lammers showing the way around at a wet Zandvoort in Formula 3.
Lammers presenting the Samson-liveried Shadow DN9B at Zandvoort.