Casper Elgaard

Casper 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.[1] 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.

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years2001, 2003-2004, 2006 - 2009, 2011
TeamsMassive Motorsport, Elgaard Motorsport, Team Den Blå Avis, RN Motorsport Ltd., Lister Racing, Zytek Engineering, Aston Martin Racing Larbre, Team Essex
Best finish7th (2007)
Class wins1 (2009)
Elgaard in a BMW 320si waiting to start in the Danish Touring Car Championship.

He is five times champion of the Danish Touring Car Championship between 2004 and 2006, and again in the series final season in 2010 as well as in 2014. 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[2], in the inaugural TCR Denmark Touring Car Series in 2020.[3]

24 Hours of Le Mans results
Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2001 Team Den Blå Avis
Team Goh		 John Nielsen
Hiroki Katoh		 Dome S101-Judd LMP900 66 DNF DNF
2003 RN Motorsport John Nielsen
Hayanari Shimoda		 DBA4 03S-Zytek LMP675 288 22nd 2nd
2004 Lister Racing John Nielsen
Jens Møller		 Lister Storm LMP-Chevrolet LMP1 279 24th 9th
2006 Zytek Engineering
Team Essex Invest		 John Nielsen
Philip Andersen		 Zytek 06S LMP1 269 NC NC
2007 Aston Martin Racing Larbre Christophe Bouchut
Fabrizio Gollin		 Aston Martin DBR9 GT1 341 7th 3rd
2008 Team Essex John Nielsen
Sascha Maassen		 Porsche RS Spyder Evo LMP2 347 12th 2nd
2009 Team Essex Kristian Poulsen
Emmanuel Collard		 Porsche RS Spyder Evo LMP2 357 10th 1st
2011 Hope Racing Steve Zacchia
Jan Lammers		 Oreca 01-Swiss HyTech LMP1 115 DNF DNF

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2009-01-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) 2008 Le Mans 24 hour standings.
  2. "Massive Motorsport first to confirm TCR Denmark entry". TouringCarTimes.com. 1 November 2019.
  3. "Casper Elgaard confirms driver role for 2020 TCR Denmark season". TouringCarTimes.com. 12 November 2019.
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Jan Magnussen		 Danish Touring Car Champion
2004 - 2006		 Succeeded by
Michel Nykjaer
Preceded by
Michel Nykjaer		 Danish Touring Car Champion
2010		 Succeeded by
series became STCC


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