Thorkild Thyrring
Template:Short description Thorkild Thyrring (born 24 October 1946) is a Danish auto racing driver. He drove several times in the Le Mans 24 hour race, most recently in 2005 and 2006 for Sebah Automotive Ltd in a Porsche 911 GT3. His best result in the race was finishing nineteenth overall in 2005. Previously he raced a Lotus in 1993 and 1994 and a Corvette in 1995. His team had failed to finish the race in all of these previous attempts.
He competed in the 1992 British Touring Car Championship for the works Toyota Team, but was dropped after half a season due to poor results, finishing in seventeenth place.[1] He has also raced in the Danish Touring Car Championship in 2000 with a Nissan Primera. He won three British GT Championship titles between 1993 and 1995.
Racing record
Complete British Touring Car Championship 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 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | DC | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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KNO 2 |
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BRH 1 |
BRH 2 |
DON |
SIL |
17th | 5 |
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Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Template:Flagicon Lotus Sport Template:Flagicon Chamberlain Engineering |
Template:Flagicon Yojiro Terada Template:Flagicon Peter Hardman |
Lotus Esprit S300 | GT | 92 | DNF | DNF |
| 1994 | Template:Flagicon Lotus Sport Template:Flagicon Chamberlain Engineering |
Template:Flagicon Klaas Zwart Template:Flagicon Andreas Fuchs |
Lotus Esprit S300 | GT2 | 28 | DNF | DNF |
| 1995 | Template:Flagicon Agusta Racing Team | Template:Flagicon Almo Coppelli Template:Flagicon Patrick Bourdais |
Callaway Corvette Supernatural | GT2 | 96 | DNF | DNF |
| 2005 | Template:Flagicon Sebah Automotive Ltd. | Template:Flagicon Lars-Erik Nielsen Template:Flagicon Pierre Ehret |
Porsche 911 GT3-RSR | GT2 | 307 | 19th | 5th |
| 2006 | Template:Flagicon Sebah Automotive Ltd. | Template:Flagicon Christian Ried Template:Flagicon Xavier Pompidou |
Porsche 911 GT3-RSR | GT2 | 256 | DNF | DNF |
Reference list
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He is still the most winning danish racedriver till this date, all wins from Denmark and the rest of the world added together.