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. 2008 Le Mans 24 hour standings. 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
External links https://web.archive.org/web/20110911211551/http://www.casperelgaard.dk/