   johannes "jan" lammers, (born 2 june 1956 in zandvoort), is a racing driver and team principal from the netherlands. in 1979, lammers made his debut in formula one driving shadow and moved to ats for 1980. he moved to ensign mid-way through the season but rejoined ats for four races in 1981. he joined theodore for 1982. ten years later he returned to formula one for the final two races of the 1992 season. he won the 24 hours of le mans in 1988 and later participated in the race with his own team racing for holland. he was also the seatholder of the dutch a1 grand prix team. ==early years== lammers grew up as a kid washing cars at a sliding school in zandvoort. as a 12-year old he started to show customers how to slide safely, encouraged by sliding school owner and racing driver rob slotemaker who quickly recognized lammers's talent. when he was 16 years old, he started his first race at the local racing track. in the following years he starred in dutch touring car and formula ford races before moving up to european formula 3 in 1977. he did not get good results with his hawke and for his second season he joined racing team holland run by alan docking.{{cite web | author= |title=loopbaan 1977-1978 - internationale doorbraak een feit. |publisher=janlammers.com |date= |url=http://www.janlammers.com/xmlparser/index.asp?xmlfile=janlammers\2_2_2_loopbaan\loopbaan.xml&xslfile=janlammers\2_2_2_loopbaan\index.xsl&id=3 |accessdate=2010-01-1
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