Thorkild Thyrring

The Lotus Esprit 300 from Thorkild Thyrring, Klaas Zwart and Andreas Fuchs at the 1994 Le Mans 24-hour race

Thorkild Thyrring (born October 24, 1946 in Copenhagen ) is a former Danish racing driver .

Racing career

Thorkild Thyrring contested his first car races in the 1970s in the Danish monoposto sport . He drove in the domestic Formula Ford championship and entered the European Formula 3 championship in 1976 . The season in which the Italian Riccardo Patrese secured the championship title, he finished tenth overall. Thyrring stayed in Formula 3 until 1978 . That year he was ninth overall (Champion Nelson Piquet ) in the British Formula 3 Championship .

Up until the beginning of 1984, Thyrring was no longer registered at any motorsport event. After returning to the racetracks, he mainly competed in GT , touring and sports car races . Between 1985 and 2007 he was entered in 121 races, of which he entered the race in 117. He was able to win eleven overall and 9 class wins, most of them in the British GT Championship, the overall ranking of which he won in 1993, 1994 and 1995. In 1988 he finished second overall in the C2 class of the sports car world championship .

In 1986 he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans , where he competed nine times until 2006 . He achieved his best overall ranking in 1987 when he finished tenth with John Sheldon and Ian Harrower .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1986	Roy Baker Racing	Tiga GC286	John Sheldon	Nick Nicholson	failure	Engine failure
1987	Tiga Race Cars	Tiga GC287	John Sheldon	Ian Harrower	Rank 10
1988	Spice engineering	Spice SE88C	Eliseo Salazar	Almo Coppelli	failure	Engine failure
1989	Spice engineering	Spice SE89C	Wayne Taylor	Tim Harvey	failure	Valve damage
1993	Lotus sport	Lotus Esprit S300	Peter Hardman	Yōjirō Terada	failure	Cylinder overheated
1994	Lotus Cars	Lotus Esprit S300	Klaas Zwart	Andreas Fuchs	failure	Bearing damage
1995	Agusta Racing Team	Callaway Corvette SuperNatural	Patrick Bourdais	Almo Coppelli	failure	accident
2005	Sebah Automotive Ltd.	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR	Lars-Erik Nielsen	Pierre Ehret	Rank 19
2006	Sebah Automotive Ltd.	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR	Xavier Pompidou	Christian Ried	failure	Axle bearing

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. 2 volumes. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Thorkild Thyrring  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Thorkild Thyrring at the Driver Database
• Thorkild Thyrring at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European Formula 3 Championship 1976
2. ^ British Formula Championship 1978
3. ↑ C2 class of the 1988 World Sports Car Championship