🇩🇰 Christina Nielsen

Christina Nielsen is a professional endurance racer competing in multiclass and single-class championships across the United States, Europe, and world series. FIA Silver-graded, she races shared GT3 and one-make cup cars for teams including Scuderia Corsa and Team Hardpoint EBM. Her primary racing has been in IMSA WeatherTech's GTD class, where she has contested 54 starts since 2014.[1]

Nielsen won the 2017 IMSA WeatherTech championship, becoming the first female driver to claim a title in the series. That championship came with Scuderia Corsa, a team that has fielded 37 drivers across the index and fielded established professionals including Sam Bird. Beyond the title, Nielsen took three additional wins across IMSA, NASA, and the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, with 17 podiums across 67 starts in indexed racing from 2012 to 2022. Her most recent campaign was a four-start stint in the 2022 WEC with Iron Dames.[2]

In IMSA, Nielsen raced regularly against Andy Lally, a Gold-graded professional with nearly 100 starts in the series, and Ben Keating, a Bronze-graded professional and multiple IMSA and WEC champion; she finished ahead of both drivers repeatedly across their shared campaigns. She also beat Kyle Kirkwood, an elite professional and Indy NXT champion, twice in IMSA competition, and Austin Cindric, an established professional and two-time NASCAR Xfinity champion, in two further encounters. Nielsen's record places her amid a mixed field of amateurs, semi-professionals and graded professionals, where she consistently ran competitive.