24h Le Mans
For the first time in the history of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a female Danish driver will take the start, on June 18th. Next year, Christina Nielsen will join the Formula Racing team which earned its invitation to Le Mans as a result of its European Le Mans Series title.
Christina Nielsen will be busy in 2016 with both the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the ELMS, but, as she indicated on Facebook, especially the 84th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Indeed, the Dane, who competed in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship season in an Aston Martin for the TRG team (The Racer's Group), will once again try to win the GTD title overseas which eluded her by two little points this year in favour of the Ferrari of Scuderia Corsa, Bill Sweedler and Townsend Bell, third at the 24 Hours in the LM GTE Am class.
It will also be in a Ferrari that Nielsen will race in the ELMS next year with the Formula Racing outfit, a winner this year in LM GTE, which earned it an automatic invitation to next year's edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. If the team meets all the conditions to honour its, Nielsen will become the first female Danish driver at the start.
But, she will not be the first of her family to race at Le Mans. Her father, Lars Erik Nielsen, crossed the finish line five times in GT between 2004 and 2008. At his first participation, the Dane drove for The Racer's Group, the team his daughter raced for in the U.S. this year.
Cécile Bonardel / ACO - Translation by Nikki Ehrhardt / ACO
PHOTO: ATLANTA (GEORGIA, U.S.), TUSC AWARDS NIGHT, SUNDAY OCTOBER 4 2015. Christina Nielsen received the trophy for her second place final in GTD.
