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. He previously 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.

Thyrring 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. 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. Between his Danish and international victories, he has the most wins of any Danish racing driver.

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 1992 Team Securicor ICS Toyota Toyota Carina SIL THR OUL SNE BRH DON1 DON2 SIL KNO1 KNO2 PEM BRH1 BRH2 DON SIL 17th 5

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. ClassPos. 1993 Lotus Sport Chamberlain Engineering Yojiro Terada Peter Hardman Lotus Esprit S300 GT 92 DNF DNF 1994 Lotus Sport Chamberlain Engineering Klaas Zwart Andreas Fuchs Lotus Esprit S300 GT2 28 DNF DNF 1995 Agusta Racing Team Almo Coppelli Patrick Bourdais Callaway Corvette Supernatural GT2 96 DNF DNF 2005 Sebah Automotive Ltd. Lars-Erik Nielsen Pierre Ehret Porsche 911 GT3-RSR GT2 307 19th 5th 2006 Sebah Automotive Ltd. Christian Ried Xavier Pompidou Porsche 911 GT3-RSR GT2 256 DNF DNF

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