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Wikipedia / Casper Elgaard

Casper Gunvad Elgaard (born 5 April 1978) is a Danish auto racing driver. He has competed several times in the 24 Hours of Le Mans since 2001, as well as regular drives in the Le Mans Series. In 2008 he finished second in the LMP2 class of Le Mans for Team Essex in a Porsche RS Spyder. He also won his class at the 2008 1000 km of Monza. In 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans Elgaard won the LMP2 class in the Team Essex Porsche Spyder.

Elgaard won the Danish Touring Car Championship between 2004 and 2006, and again in the series final season in 2010. Later, he won the Danish Thundersport Championship in 2014 and 2015. Early racing includes finishing as runner-up in the 1998 Danish Formula Ford series, as well as a drive in German Formula Ford. In 1999 he raced in the Formula Renault Euro Cup.

After competing in the TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship in 2019, Elgaard will be driving for his team, Massive Motorsport, which was the first team to enter, in the inaugural TCR Denmark Touring Car Series in 2020.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year

Team

Co-Drivers

Car

Class

Laps

Team Den Blå Avis Team Goh

John Nielsen Hiroki Katoh

Dome S101-Judd

LMP900

66

DNF

DNF

RN Motorsport

John Nielsen Hayanari Shimoda

DBA4 03S-Zytek

LMP675

288

22nd

2nd

Lister Racing

John Nielsen Jens Reno Møller

Lister Storm LMP-Chevrolet

LMP1

279

24th

9th

Zytek Engineering Team Essex Invest

John Nielsen Philip Andersen

Zytek 06S

LMP1

269

NC

NC

Aston Martin Racing Larbre

Christophe Bouchut Fabrizio Gollin

Aston Martin DBR9

GT1

341

7th

3rd

Team Essex

John Nielsen Sascha Maassen

Porsche RS Spyder Evo

LMP2

347

12th

2nd

Team Essex

Kristian Poulsen Emmanuel Collard

Porsche RS Spyder Evo

LMP2

357

10th

1st

Hope Racing

Steve Zacchia Jan Lammers

Oreca 01-Swiss HyTech

LMP1

115

DNF

DNF

Complete TCR Denmark Touring Car Series 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

16

17

18

DC

Points

2020

TPR Motorsport

Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)

JYL11

JYL12

JYL13

JYL21

JYL22

JYL23

JYL24

JYL25

JYL26

DJU1

DJU1

DJU3

PAD1

PAD2

PAD3

JYL31

JYL32

JYL33

7th

167

* Season still in progress.

References

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20110911211551/http://www.casperelgaard.dk/