Moderator- Justin Bell

Lyn St. James, Tom Kristensen, Jacky Ickx, Jochen Mass, Henru Pescarolo

Jacky Ickx

Belgian driver, Jacky Ickx ruled sportscar racing in general and Le Mans in particular throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but his career effectively spanned four decades. Ickx was a multi-discipline master: one of the old school of drive anything, anywhere, anytime. Ickx was a top-line F1: he completed 25 podium finishes and was twice runner-up in the World Championship. His other titles include six-time Le Mans winner, five-time Spa 1000kms winner, multiple sportscar World Endurance Champion, European F2 champion and Paris-Dakar rally victor. Ickx remains a legend in the racing world. Although he’s best known for his Porsche associations in Martini and Rothmans liveried cars, he also worked with Ford and Ferrari.

Tom Kristensen

Tom is a Danish former racing driver. He holds the record for the most wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with nine, six of which were consecutive (from 2000 to 2005). In 1997, he won the race with the Joest Racing team, driving a Tom Walkinshaw Racing-designed and Porsche-powered WSC95, after being a late inclusion in the team following Davy Jones' accident that eventually ruled him out of the race. All of his subsequent wins came driving an Audi prototype, except in 2003, when he drove a Bentley prototype. In both 1999 and 2007 Kristensen's team crashed out of comfortable leads in the closing hours of the race. He is considered by many to be the greatest driver ever to have raced in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Elsewhere Kristensen also holds the record for most wins at the 12 Hours of Sebring with a total of six.

In August 2014, Kristensen was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog by the Queen of Denmark. In January 2018 he was inducted into the Danish Sports Hall of Fame.

Jochen Mass

Jochen Mass is a racing great with numerous successes to his credit. As a Formula 1 racer from 1973 to 1982, he drove for Surtees, McLaren, ATS and Arrows, among others. Before and after his Formula 1 career, he scored many wins in sports cars, most often driving Porsche or Mercedes-Benz sports prototypes. Jochen raced the 24 Hours of Le Mans eleven times. He took pole position in 1986 with a Porsche 962 C and won in 1989 with Sauber Mercedes. The German driver also has 114 Grands Prix to his name, including a victory in Spain in 1975. 

Lyn St. James

Named one of the “Top 100 Women Athletes of the Century” by Sports Illustrated, St. James’ racing career started in 1973 and ended in 2001 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In between she became the 1992 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year, set 21 international and national closed-course speed records, notched two class wins at the 24 Hours of Daytona, one at the 24 Hours of Nurburgring and another at the 12 Hours of Sebring, while competing twice at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

As a businesswomen, she has served on the board of Kettering University and was President of the Women’s Sports Foundation. She’s a recipient of numerous prestigious awards, and is a member of the Florida Sports Hall of Fame and the Sebring Hall of Fame.

St. James continues to race vintage cars today and represents ACCUS on the FIA Women Motorsports Commission.

Henri Pescarolo

Henri Pescarolo is a former racing driver from France. He competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans a record 33 times, winning on four occasions, and won a number of other major sports car events including the 24 Hours of Daytona. He also participated in 64 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, achieving one podium and 12 championship points. Pescarolo also drove in the Dakar Rally in the 1990s, before retiring from racing at the age of 57. In 2000 he set up his racing team, Pescarolo Sport, which competed in Le Mans until 2013. 

Justin Bell- Moderator

Justin is a British race car driver, who after a successful career behind the wheel, transitioned into the media world in front of the camera and established himself as one of the top US based automotive content hosts. After beginning his racing career in 1988, Justin Bell achieved many significant racing accomplishments, including the 1997 FIA GT2 World Championship, a win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1998, second-place finishes in Le Mans and Daytona, and a pair of SCCA Trans-Am wins. He is the son of Derek Bell.

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