Thorkild Thyrring
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
[edit]Complete British Touring Car Championship results
[edit](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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Team Securicor ICS Toyota | Toyota Carina | SIL Ret |
THR Ret |
OUL Ret |
SNE 7 |
BRH 10 |
DON 1 18 |
DON 2 Ret |
SIL |
KNO 1 |
KNO 2 |
PEM |
BRH 1 |
BRH 2 |
DON |
SIL |
17th | 5 |
Source:[2]
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Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
[edit]| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 |  Lotus Sport Chamberlain Engineering
|
 Yojiro Terada Peter Hardman
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Lotus Esprit S300 | GT | 92 | DNF | DNF |
| 1994 | Lotus Sport Chamberlain Engineering
|
 Klaas Zwart Andreas Fuchs
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Lotus Esprit S300 | GT2 | 28 | DNF | DNF |
| 1995 | Agusta Racing Team
|
 Almo Coppelli Patrick Bourdais
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Callaway Corvette Supernatural | GT2 | 96 | DNF | DNF |
| 2005 | Sebah Automotive Ltd.
|
 Lars-Erik Nielsen Pierre Ehret
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Porsche 911 GT3-RSR | GT2 | 307 | 19th | 5th |
| 2006 | Sebah Automotive Ltd.
|
Christian Ried Xavier Pompidou
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Porsche 911 GT3-RSR | GT2 | 256 | DNF | DNF |
Reference list
[edit]- ^ "BTCC :: Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2008-12-06. Official 1992 BTCC standings
- ^ de Jong, Frank. "British Saloon Car Championship". History of Touring Car Racing 1952-1993. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
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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.