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39-444: Nelson Piquet gave the B191 its only win at the 1991 Canadian Grand Prix after Nigel Mansell 's leading Williams - Renault suffered electrical failure less than half a lap from the finish gifting Piquet the last win of his Formula One career. The car was pressed into service for the first three races of the 1992 season with small upgrades to bodywork and suspension. This car was dubbed

78-465: 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

117-403: A Williams - Renault , suddenly stopped halfway round the last lap while leading by almost a minute. Stefano Modena took second in a Tyrrell - Honda , while Mansell's team-mate Riccardo Patrese was third, having started from pole position . Piquet's win was the first for a car using Pirelli tyres since the 1986 Mexican Grand Prix . This was the last win for a car using Pirelli tyres until

156-525: A gearbox failure on lap 27 and Ferrari's misery was compounded on lap 34 when Alesi's engine blew up. The Williams drivers were now well ahead of the pack, but Piquet closed on Patrese, the Italian suffering from gearbox troubles of his own. In the late stages Patrese was passed by Stefano Modena in the Tyrrell. On the last lap, Mansell led from Piquet, Modena, Patrese, de Cesaris, and Gachot when he suddenly slowed to

195-399: A halt at the hairpin. There were rumours that Mansell had failed to change gear for the hairpin and stalled the car, or that he had turned off the engine accidentally while waving to the crowd during the final lap. Mansell denied this, saying that the gearbox had gone into neutral as he shifted down, and Williams said that the car had suffered an electrical failure. This is technically true, but

234-541: 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

273-485: 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

312-588: 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

351-444: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1991 Canadian Grand Prix The 1991 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on 2 June 1991. It was the fifth race of the 1991 FIA Formula One World Championship . The 69-lap race was won by Nelson Piquet , driving a Benetton - Ford . Piquet took the 23rd and final win of his F1 career after old rival Nigel Mansell , driving

390-411: 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

429-460: The 2011 Australian Grand Prix . Between the Monaco and Canadian Grands Prix, Cesare Fiorio had been fired as team manager of Ferrari and had been replaced by Piero Ferrari . Meanwhile, John Barnard had left as Benetton's technical director; he was replaced by Gordon Kimball (father of future IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball ). The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve had been modified from the year before:

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468-578: 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

507-699: The B191B . Schumacher remained with the team while Martin Brundle replaced the retiring Nelson Piquet in the team's second car. The B191 was the first Benetton to feature the now standard raised nose first pioneered by Tyrrell in 1990 . The B191B was replaced by the Benetton B192 following the 1992 Brazilian Grand Prix . ( key ) (results in italics indicate fastest lap) * 6 points scored in 1991 using Benetton B190B * 80 points scored in 1992 using Benetton B192 This Formula One –related article

546-551: 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

585-530: 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

624-602: The draw was reshuffled at the halfway point of the season. The race was Nelson Piquet 's 23rd and last win in Formula One, and Stefano Modena 's second and last podium finish. JJ Lehto 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

663-599: 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

702-571: 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. 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

741-490: 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. 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

780-681: 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

819-460: 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

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858-465: 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,

897-567: The pre-qualifying session was dominated by the Scuderia Italia Dallara cars, and the Jordans . With Dallara's Emanuele Pirro fastest ahead of his team-mate JJ Lehto , followed by Jordan's Andrea de Cesaris and Bertrand Gachot , there was over a second between the four pre-qualifiers and the rest. Those who failed to progress to the main qualifying sessions included Olivier Grouillard , fifth fastest for Fondmetal , his best result of

936-410: The qualifying sessions, Patrese took pole position from team-mate Mansell, out-qualifying him for the fifth straight race. Senna was third followed by Prost, Moreno, Berger, Alesi, Piquet, Modena, and Pirro. At the start, Mansell got away well and led Patrese, Senna, Prost, Berger, and Moreno. Berger went out on lap 4 with electronics problems, while Aguri Suzuki retired when his Lola caught fire. Moreno

975-635: 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 . On 17 June 2010, Lehto

1014-483: The right-left sequence before the start-finish straight was altered to slow cars down. On the driver front, Julian Bailey 's funding ran out and he was replaced at Lotus by Johnny Herbert , who subsequently failed to qualify for the race, while Alex Caffi was out of action for Footwork as a result of injuries sustained in a road accident. His place was taken by Stefan Johansson . As at the previous Grand Prix in Monaco ,

1053-466: The season so far. The Modena team was starting to run into financial difficulties, and the performance of their Lambo cars was also slipping, as Nicola Larini and Eric van de Poele ended the session down in sixth and seventh positions. Slowest was Pedro Chaves in the Coloni , despite a new Hart -prepared Cosworth DFR engine. In practice Riccardo Patrese had a huge accident, walking away unhurt. In

1092-482: 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

1131-533: 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

1170-473: 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

1209-399: 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

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1248-559: 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

1287-499: Was induced by Mansell failing to keep the revs sufficiently high on the engine to drive the electrical and hydraulic systems, thus causing the gearbox barrel to get stuck. When the car was returned to the pits, the engine was re-fired and the gearbox worked perfectly. Piquet thus took an unexpected victory for Benetton at the expense of his old rival Mansell, who was classified sixth. Jordan's five points, their first in Formula One, meant that they would no longer have to pre-qualify when

1326-653: 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. Like many racing drivers Lehto began in karts at age 8, winning numerous events, before graduating to Formula Ford at

1365-402: 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

1404-505: Was out on lap 10 when he spun off, while Prost was suffering from gearbox problems. The Frenchman had managed to hold on while he engaged in a battle with teammate Alesi and Piquet's Benetton. Mansell led Patrese and Senna on lap 25 when Senna retired, leaving Mansell and Patrese a long way ahead of the Alesi–Prost–Piquet battle. This ended Senna's thus far perfect season, capping his winning streak at 4. Prost retired shortly after with

1443-484: 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

1482-486: 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

1521-472: 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,

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