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Stefan Johansson
Nationality	Swedish
World Championship Career
Active years	1980, 1983 - 1991
Team(s)	Shadow, Spirit, Tyrrell, Toleman, Ferrari, McLaren, Ligier, Onyx, AGS, Footwork
Races	103
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	12
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1980 Argentine Grand Prix
Last race	1991 British Grand Prix

Stefan Nils Edwin Johansson (born September 8, 1956) is a former Formula One driver from Sweden. Since leaving Formula One he has raced in a number of categories, including CART, various kinds of Sports car racing, and Grand Prix Masters.

Contents 1 F1 Career 2 Post F1 2.1 Complete Formula One results 2.2 Indy 500 results

Johansson's route to Formula One was via the British Formula 3 Championship, which he won in 1980. In F1 he participated in 103 grands prix, debuting on January 13, 1980 for the Shadow team when he was still an F3 regular, although these outings were unsuccessful and his fulltime F1 debut did not occur until 1983 after a spell in Formula 2. His links to the Spirit team and their Honda engines saw him re-enter F1 with them In his Grand Prix career, Johansson achieved 12 podiums, and scored a total of 88 championship points. He joined Tyrrell in 1984 as a mid-season replacement for the injured Martin Brundle, doing enough to be called up to Ferrari when René Arnoux was surprisingly sacked.

His role for the season was to back up Michele Alboreto's championship challenge, but in 1986 he often outpaced his Italian team-mate. For 1987 he moved to McLaren as Alain Prost's #2. Further podium finishes followed, but the team always intended to replace him with Ayrton Senna in 1988. Despite 11 podiums in 3 seasons, Stefan was still winless, and was not wanted by a top team.

He joined Ligier, ironically alongside Arnoux, but the car was totally uncompetitive, scoring no points and not always qualifying, even against teams with much smaller budgets such as AGS and Rial. Better was to follow in 1989 as he was signed to lead the new Onyx team. Their car was temperamental and didn't always qualify, but Stefan finished 3rd in Portugal for his last (and the team's only) podium finish. He fell out with new team owner Peter Monteverdi in early 1990 and was duly sacked, making further appearances for AGS and Footwork in 1991.

He remains the driver with the most F1 podium finishes without ever winning a race.

For 1992 he moved over to CART Championship Car, winning the Rookie of the Year title with two third places, ahead of Belgium's Eric Bachelart. His first pole came at Portland the next year, but as in Formula 1 he never won a race. From 1992 to 1996, he started 74 races and had his best season overall in 1994, finishing in 11th. During this time, he competed in the 1993-1995 Indianapolis 500. At the 1996 Molson Indy Toronto race, he was involved in an accident that claimed the life of fellow driver Jeff Krosnoff. After making wheel to whell contact, Jeff's car hit the barriers and also a tree and lamp post that was too close to the track. Krosnoff died instantly of the injuries sustained from hitting the lamp post.

Before his Formula One career Stefan had participated in sports car races such as 24 Hours of Le Mans, after retiring from CART at the end of the 1996 season he returned to this type of racing. During 1997 he recorded two major race wins, at the 12 Hours of Sebring driving a Ferrari 333 SP and at Le Mans where he drove a Joest Porsche.

During 1998 & 1999 Stefan raced for various sports car teams (like the unreliable Audi R8C Coupé at Le Mans) but in 2000 he started Johansson-Matthews racing with an American businessman called Jim Matthews. They competed in the American Le Mans Series using a Reynard 2KQ prototype. Unfortunately this wasn't a successful vehicle in its original form (though it was later developed into various other successful cars including the Zytek that he later raced) and the partnership dissolved.

In 2001 Stefan was lucky enough to be able to campaign an Audi R8 prototype with backing from Gulf Oil and the assistance of Mike Earle's Arena team. That year he raced in the European Le Mans Series, the American Le Mans Series and at Le Mans itself. His co-drivers were Guy Smith and Patrick Lemarie.

2002 saw Stefan back in an Audi R8 but this time one run by the Miami based Champion Racing team. His co-driver was ex Formula One driver Johnny Herbert and they competed in the American Le Mans Series.

For 2003, he returned to CART as a team owner, running American Spirit Team Johansson with Jimmy Vasser and Ryan Hunter-Reay as drivers. This was one of many new teams for the 2003 CART season; ironically, Bachelart's Mi-Jack Conquest Racing team was another. The team was under-funded, and although Hunter-Reay scored a fluke win in the wet conditions at Australia, it folded at the end of the season (which, as it turned out, also turned out to be CART's last).

After only competing in a couple of celebrity races and occasional outings in the works Zytek in 2004 Stefan returned to full time racing in 2005 driving the Chip Ganassi run New Century Mortgage sponsored Lexus Riley Daytona Prototype in the American Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series. With co-driver Cort Wagner he scored his best finish, a 2nd place, at Mont Tremblant in Canada, they finished the year in 5th place in the championship.

In 2006 as well as the Grand Prix Masters series, Stefan has made occasional appearances in Grand-Am for the Cheever and CITGO teams, and has continued an association with the works Zytek team in the Le Mans European Series.

2007 will see Johansson competing in a Highcroft Racing Courage-Acura in the LMP2 class of the American Le Mans Series, sharing with David Brabham.

Outside racing, Stefan has a number of business ventures and is a keen artist - he is particularly known for his watch designs.

(Note: grands prix in bold denote points scoring races.)

Year	Team	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1980	Shadow	Ford	ARG DNQ	BRA DNQ	RSA	USW	BEL	MON	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	DUT	ITA	CAN	USA			-	0
1983	Spirit	Honda	BRA	USW	FRA	SMA	MON	BEL	USE	CAN	GBR Ret	DEU Ret	AUT 12	DUT 7	ITA Ret	EUR 14	SAF		25th	0
1984	Tyrrell	Ford	BRA	SAF	BEL	SMA	FRA	MON	CAN	USE	USA	GBR DSQ	DEU DSQ	AUT DNQ	DUT DSQ				17th	3
	Toleman	Hart														ITA 4	EUR Ret	POR 11
1985	Tyrrell	Ford	BRA 7																7th	26
	Ferrari	Ferrari		POR 8	SMA 6	MON Ret	CAN 2	USE 2	FRA 4	GBR Ret	DEU 9	AUT 4	DUT Ret	ITA 5	BEL Ret	EUR Ret	SAF 4	AUS 5
1986	Ferrari	Ferrari	BRA Ret	SPA Ret	SMA 4	MON 10	BEL 3	CAN Ret	USE Ret	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	DEU 11	HUN 4	AUT 3	ITA 3	POR 6	MEX 12	AUS 4	5th	23
1987	McLaren	TAG Porsche	BRA 3	SMA 4	BEL 2	MON Ret	USE 7	FRA 8	GBR Ret	DEU 2	HUN Ret	AUT 7	ITA 6	POR 5	SPA 3	MEX Ret	JPN 3	AUS Ret	6th	30
1988	Ligier	Judd	BRA 9	SMA DNQ	MON Ret	MEX 10	CAN Ret	USE Ret	FRA DNQ	GBR DNQ	DEU DNQ	HUN Ret	BEL 11	ITA DNQ	POR Ret	SPA Ret	JPN DNQ	AUS 9	26th	0
1989	Onyx	Ford	BRA DNPQ	SMA DNPQ	MON DNPQ	MEX Ret	USA Ret	CAN DSQ	FRA 5	GBR DNPQ	DEU Ret	HUN Ret	BEL 8	ITA DNPQ	POR 3	SPA DNPQ	JPN DNPQ	AUS DNPQ	12th	6
1990	Onyx	Ford	USA DNQ	BRA DNQ	MON	CAN	MEX	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS	-	0
1991	AGS	Ford	USA DNQ	BRA DNQ															-	0
	Footwork	Porsche			SMR	MON	CAN Ret	MEX DNQ
	Footwork	Ford							FRA DNQ	GBR DNQ	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	ESP	JPN	AUS

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish
1993	Penske	Chevrolet	6th	11th
1994	Penske	Ilmor	27th	15th
1995	Reynard	Ford-Cosworth	31st	16th

Preceded by Chico Serra	British F3 Champion 1980	Succeeded by Jonathon Palmer
Preceded by Jeff Andretti	CART Rookie of the Year 1992	Succeeded by Nigel Mansell
Preceded by Manuel Reuter Davy Jones Alexander Wurz	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1997 with: Michele Alboreto Tom Kristensen	Succeeded by Laurent Aïello Allan McNish Stéphane Ortelli