Jaroslav Janiš

Jaroslav Janiš

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	2007, 2009
Teams	Spyker Squadron
Best finish	25th (2009)
Class wins	0

Jaroslav "Jarek" Janiš is an auto racing driver born on 8 July 1983 in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia. In 2006 he is racing in the FIA GT Championship. He has taken three pole positions Brno, Dijon and the Hungaroring but only a single victory, teamed with Sascha Bert and occasionally former Formula One driver Andrea Montermini. Prior to 2006 he had done six GT Championship races, four of them in a Ferrari 360 Modena for the Menx team in 2003, taking a total of 17.5 points.

He also has a record of single-seater competition. Jarek finished 7th in the German Formula Ford series in 1999, and was 2nd in that series (and 4th in the European Formula Ford series) a year later. By the end of 2001 he had a chance to fill in for countryman Tomáš Enge in the final round of the International Formula 3000 series at Monza. He finished 3rd overall in the European series in 2002,^[1] and raced the international series in 2003. He made his Champ Car debut for Dale Coyne Racing in the penultimate race of 2004. He did some Formula Nippon in Japan in 2005.

He is a race driver for A1 Team Czech Republic in the A1 Grand Prix series.

Motorsports career results

Complete International Formula 3000 results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2001	Coca-Cola Nordic Racing	INT	IMO	CAT	A1R	MON	NUR	MAG	SIL	HOC	HUN	SPA	MNZ 16	NC	0
2003	Superfund ISR - Charouz	IMO DNS	CAT 4	A1R 9	MON 4	NUR 6	MAG Ret	SIL 10	HOC 8	HUN 5	MNZ 6			8th	20

American Open-Wheel

(key)

Champ Car

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points
2004	Dale Coyne	LBH	MTY	MIL	POR	CLE	TOR	VAN	ROA	DEN	MTL	LS	LVS	SRF 18	MXC	24th	3

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos	Points
2004	Team Rosberg	AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 2003	HOC 13	EST Ret	ADR Ret	LAU 15	NOR 16†	SHA^1 8	NÜR Ret	OSC 20†	ZAN 16	BRN Ret	HOC Ret	21st	0

^† - Driver did not finish, but completed 90% of the race distance.
¹ - A non-championship one-off race was held in 2004 at the streets of Shanghai, China.

Complete Italian/Euro Formula 3000 results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Points
2002	Charouz ISR Racing	VLL Ret	PER 2	MOZ 6	SPA Ret	DON 1	BRN 5	DIJ 4	JER 3	CAG 1	3rd	36
2005	Ma-Con Engineering	ADR	VAL 2	CHE Ret	MON 3	MUG 6	MAG 3	MOZ 2	MIS 1		2nd	43

Complete F3000 International Masters results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	DC	Points
2006	Charouz Racing System	MOZ1 1	MOZ2 1	MAG1 1	MAG2 2	BRH1 1	BRH2 3	OSC1	OSC2	BRN1	BRN2	IST1	IST2	EST1	EST2	EST3	3rd	54

Complete Formula Nippon results

(key)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Points
2005	Kondo Racing	MOT 12	SUZ 7	SUG 7	FUJ	SUZ	MIN	FUJ	MOT	SUZ	14th	0

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Points
2006–07	Czech Republic	NED SPR	NED FEA	CZE SPR PO	CZE FEA PO	CHN SPR PO	CHN FEA PO	MYS SPR PO	MYS FEA PO	IDN SPR 16	IDN FEA 7	NZL SPR	NZL FEA	AUS SPR	AUS FEA	RSA SPR	RSA FEA	MEX SPR 12	MEX FEA 12	CHN SPR	CHN FEA	GBR SPR	GBR SPR	12th	27

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2007	Spyker Squadron	Mike Hezemans Jonny Kane	Spyker C8 Spyder GT2-R	GT2	70	DNF	DNF
2009	Snoras Spyker Squadron	Tom Coronel Jeroen Bleekemolen	Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2-R	GT2	320	25th	5th

References

1. "Jaroslav Janiš" (in Czech). sportovci.cz. Retrieved 14 June 2010.

External links

• Official website