🇳🇴 Einar Thorsen

Einar Thorsen was a competitive amateur racer competing in multiclass endurance championships across Germany and internationally. FIA Bronze-graded, he spent his career primarily in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, racing BMW one-make cup machinery and Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars for Adrenalin Motorsport Team Alzner Automotive BMW over twelve seasons between 2010 and 2021. He also contested the 24H Series and the Nürburgring 24 Hours, racing in shared-driver format with various co-drivers.[1]

Thorsen took nine podiums across 58 starts, with seven of those finishes coming in the Langstrecken-Serie. His sole win came at the 2021 Nürburgring 24 Hours, where he finished on the podium in the V5 class for production cars. His other podium in that event came in 2019. In the 24H Series he took a single podium finish from eight starts in 2018 to 2020.[2]

He regularly competed against entry-level professionals graded FIA Silver, among them Yannick Fübrich and Moritz Oberheim, both multiple champions of the Langstrecken-Serie Cup 5 class; he typically finished behind them. His strongest results came against drivers with higher credentials: he finished ahead of Franck Perera, an established professional with Formula 3 and GT World Challenge experience, and Job Van Uitert, a professional who has raced in ADAC Formula 4 and European Le Mans Series, each once in their shared competition.