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Christoffer Nygaard

Nationality

Danish

Born

24 March 1986 (age 37)
Gentofte, Denmark

FIA World Endurance Championship career

Debut season

2012

Current team

Aston Martin Racing

Car number

95

Previous series

2001–2004
2005–2006
2007–2008
2009, 2012
2009-2011
2010-2011

Karting
ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup
SEAT Leon Supercopa Germany
ADAC GT Masters
FIA GT3 European Championship
FIA GT1 World Championship

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	2010, 2012-
Teams	Young Driver AMR, Aston Martin Racing
Best finish	3rd (2010)

Christoffer Nygaard (born 24 March 1986, in Gentofte) is a Danish auto racing driver who currently competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Racing career

Karting

Nygaard started his karting career in 2001. His best result while karting was 3rd in the Nordic Formula A Championship in his last season in 2004.

Touring Car racing

After karting for four years, Nygaard made his auto racing debut in 2005 in the German ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup. After racing in the ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup from 2005 to 2006 Nygaard switched to SEAT Leon Supercopa Germany for the 2007 season racing for Fischer Racing. In 2008 he finished 3rd in the championship.

GT racing

For 2009 Nygaard switched from the SEAT Leon Supercopa to a Ford GT GT3, still driving for Fischer Racing, in ADAC GT Masters and the FIA GT3 European Championship. He continued in FIA GT3 for 2010 and debuted in the FIA GT1 World Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans the same year. Nygaard continued racing in the FIA GT3 and FIA GT1 for 2011.

In 2012 Nygaard returned to ADAC GT Masters. Since 2012 Nygaard has been racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Aston Martin Racing.^[1]

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2010	Young Driver AMR	Tomáš Enge Peter Kox	Aston Martin DBR9	GT1	311	22nd	3rd
2012	Aston Martin Racing	Kristian Poulsen Allan Simonsen	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Am	31	DNF	DNF
2013	Aston Martin Racing	Kristian Poulsen Allan Simonsen†	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Am	2	DNF†	DNF†
2014	Aston Martin Racing	Paul Dalla Lana Pedro Lamy	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Am	329	26th	6th
2015	Aston Martin Racing	Nicki Thiim Marco Sørensen	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	330	27th	4th
Sources:^[2]^[3]

†Simonsen was killed on Lap 3 of the race. Neither Poulsen nor Nygaard had driven in the race at the time of the crash.

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2012	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Am	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SEB	SPA	LMS Ret	SIL	SÃO	BHR	FUJ	SHA	NC	0
2013	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Am	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 1	SPA 2	LMS Ret	SÃO Ret	COA 2	FUJ 1	SHA Ret	BHR 1	4th	104.5
2014	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Am	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 2	SPA 3	LMS 5	COA 1	FUJ 2	SHA 1	BHR 3	SÃO 1	2nd	164
2015	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 4	SPA 6	LMS 6	NÜR 4	COA 5	FUJ 5	SHA	BHR 4	8th	81
Source:^[3]

Coaching

Christoffer Nygaard is currently an instructor at Power Racing Gokart Academy in Herlev, Denmark where he runs the Race Club, a regularly held class where he provides coaching services to novice and advanced Gokart drivers.