Thorkild Thyrring

{{short description|Danish racing driver (born 1946)}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.btcc.net/html/history_standings.php?season_id=35 |title=BTCC :: Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship |accessdate=2008-12-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716071412/http://www.btcc.net/html/history_standings.php?season_id=35 |archivedate=2011-07-16 }} Official 1992 BTCC standings 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)

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! 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

|style="background:#EFCFFF;"| SIL
{{small|Ret}}

|style="background:#EFCFFF;"| THR
{{small|Ret}}

|style="background:#EFCFFF;"| OUL
{{small|Ret}}

|style="background:#DFFFDF;"| SNE
{{small|7}}

|style="background:#DFFFDF;"| BRH
{{small|10}}

|style="background:#CFCFFF;"| DON
1

{{small|18}}

|style="background:#EFCFFF;"| DON
2

{{small|Ret}}

| SIL

| KNO
1

| KNO
2

| PEM

| BRH
1

| BRH
2

| DON

| SIL

! 17th

! 5

colspan="20"|{{center|{{small|Source:{{cite web |last1=de Jong |first1=Frank |title=British Saloon Car Championship |url=http://www.touringcarracing.net/Pages/BSCC.html |website=History of Touring Car Racing 1952-1993 |access-date=28 January 2023}}}}}}

=Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results=

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Year

! Team

! Co-Drivers

! Car

! Class

! Laps

! Pos.

! Class
Pos.

1993

|align="left"| {{flagicon|GBR}} Lotus Sport
{{flagicon|GBR}} Chamberlain Engineering

|align="left"| {{flagicon|JPN}} Yojiro Terada
{{flagicon|GBR}} Peter Hardman

|align="left"| Lotus Esprit S300

| GT

| 92

| DNF

| DNF

1994

|align="left"| {{flagicon|GBR}} Lotus Sport
{{flagicon|GBR}} Chamberlain Engineering

|align="left"| {{flagicon|NED}} Klaas Zwart
{{flagicon|GER}} Andreas Fuchs

|align="left"| Lotus Esprit S300

| GT2

| 28

| DNF

| DNF

1995

|align="left"| {{flagicon|GBR}} Agusta Racing Team

|align="left"| {{flagicon|ITA}} Almo Coppelli
{{flagicon|FRA}} Patrick Bourdais

|align="left"| Callaway Corvette Supernatural

| GT2

| 96

| DNF

| DNF

2005

|align="left"| {{flagicon|GBR}} Sebah Automotive Ltd.

|align="left"| {{flagicon|DEN}} Lars-Erik Nielsen
{{flagicon|GER}} Pierre Ehret

|align="left"| Porsche 911 GT3-RSR

| GT2

| 307

| 19th

| 5th

2006

|align="left"| {{flagicon|GBR}} Sebah Automotive Ltd.

|align="left"| {{flagicon|GER}} Christian Ried
{{flagicon|FRA}} Xavier Pompidou

|align="left"| Porsche 911 GT3-RSR

| GT2

| 256

| DNF

| DNF

Reference list

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Category:1946 births

Category:Living people

Category:British Touring Car Championship drivers

Category:Danish racing drivers

Category:24 Hours of Le Mans drivers

Category:Danish Touring Car Championship drivers

Category:European Le Mans Series drivers

Category:World Sportscar Championship drivers

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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.