Conrad Laursen

Conrad Laursen
Laursen in 2022
Nationality	Danish
Born	(2006-05-11) 11 May 2006 (age 18) Copenhagen, Denmark
European Le Mans Series career
Debut season	2023
Current team	AF Corse
Racing licence	FIA Silver
Car number	TBA
Starts	6 (6 entries)
Wins	0
Podiums	2
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	7th in 2023
Previous series
2022 2021-2022 2021-2022 2020	Formula 4 UAE Championship Italian F4 Championship ADAC Formula 4 F4 Danish Championship
Championship titles
2020	F4 Danish Championship

Conrad Nicholai Weis Laursen (born 11 May 2006) is a Danish racing driver scheduled to compete in the European Le Mans Series with AF Corse. He is the 2020 Danish F4 champion. Laursen is the son of former Ferrari Challenge Europe competitor Johnny Laursen. ^[1]

Early career

Lower formulae

2020

In 2020, Laursen made his single-seater debut, competing in the F4 Danish Championship with FSP Racing. ^[2] He started the campaign off strongly, taking a triple of podiums, which included his maiden win in car racing, at Jyllandsringen. The same results followed at Padborg Park, where the Dane once again finished second, third and first in the races. Having taken a sole podium in the third event, Laursen was declared as champion following the cancellation of the season finale, scheduled to take place at Sturup Raceway. ^[3]

2021

The Dane progressed to the Italian F4 Championship the following year, driving for Prema Powerteam. ^[4] Starting his year by finishing fifth in the season opener at Le Castellet, Laursen struggled the following round in Misano, being forced to retire from two races. Consistent points would come at Vallelunga and Imola, before the Dane went without a points finish at the Red Bull Ring. Having scored a pair of top-ten results as well as a fastest lap at Monza, Laursen finished ninth in the overall championship, whilst losing out narrowly on the rookie title to Nikita Bedrin owing to a spin in the final race. ^[5]

2022

Having started 2022 by racing in two events of the F4 UAE Championship, where he scored a pair of podiums, ^[6] Laursen returned to the Italian and ADAC F4 series for his main campaign, once again competing with Prema, this time alongside Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Rafael Câmara, Charlie Wurz and James Wharton. ^{[7] [8] [9]} His season in the former began slowly, with the first two rounds yielding a mere three points finishes, before the Dane scored his first podium in the series, finishing second in Race 3 at Spa-Francorchamps. ^{[10] [11]} Another podium would follow at the Red Bull Ring, however that round would see Laursen's final points finish of the campaign, which meant that he classified eleventh in the standings by the end of the year. In the German championship, Laursen scored a podium during the opening round, having come back from a 19th-placed grid slot during Race 3, ^[12] before struggling to achieve major results at the Hockenheimring, notably dropping to ninth from reverse-grid pole in the final race. ^[13] Laursen bounced back emphatically during the next event in Zandvoort, where, having taken third place in Race 1, he held off teammate Antonelli to take his first victory in the championship on Sunday, finishing 58 hundredths of a second ahead of the Italian. ^{[14] [15]} Despite leaving the series after round four, where he made another appearance on the rostrum, ^[16] Laursen ended up sixth in the drivers' standings. ^[17]

Sportscar career

2022: First appearance

Laursen made his first appearance in the world of GT racing in the Ferrari Challenge Europe, scoring a pair of top five finishes at the Hockenheimring in 2022. ^[18]

2023: Debut in ELMS

For the 2023 season, Laursen switched to sportscar racing on a full-time basis, teaming up with his father Johnny and fellow Dane Nicklas Nielsen in the Asian Le Mans Series at the start of the year, before racing with the same teammates in the European Le Mans Series during the summer, driving for AF Corse-entered Formula Racing in the GT category of both championships. ^{[19] [20]} Having scored two second places in the ELMS, the Laursens classified seventh in the standings.

2024: First ELMS win

The Dane remained with Formula Racing in the ELMS, once again joining father Johnny and Nielsen at Formula Racing. ^[21] During the opening round at Barcelona, Laursen and his teammates profited from an issue for the dominant Iron Dames entry to inherit the win and take the team's first win in the series since 2015, as well as Laursen's first ever sportscar victory. ^{[22] [23]}

Karting record

Karting career summary

Season	Series	Team	Position
2015	Danish Championship — Cadet Mini		1st
2016	WSK Super Master Series — 60 Mini	Formula Racing	77th
	WSK Final Cup — 60 Mini	Baby Race Srl	NC
2017	WSK Champions Cup — 60 Mini	Ward Racing	27th
	South Garda Winter Cup — Mini ROK		14th
	WSK Super Master Series — 60 Mini		24th
2018	WSK Champions Cup — OKJ	Ricky Flynn Motorsport	NC
	South Garda Winter Cup — OKJ		45th
	WSK Super Master Series — OKJ		40th
	German Karting Championship — OKJ		14th
	WSK Open Cup — OKJ		8th
	CIK-FIA European Championship — OKJ		13th
	CIK-FIA World Championship — OKJ		46th
	WSK Final Cup — OKJ		17th
2019	South Garda Winter Cup — OKJ	Ricky Flynn Motorsport	3rd
	WSK Champions Cup — OKJ		12th
	WSK Super Master Series — OKJ		16th
	WSK Euro Series — OKJ		14th
	CIK-FIA European Championship — OKJ		26th
	CIK-FIA World Championship — OKJ		16th
	WSK Open Cup — OKJ		16th
	WSK Final Cup — OKJ		20th
Sources: [24] [25]

Complete CIK-FIA Karting European Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	DC	Points
2018	Ricky Flynn Motorsport	OKJ	SAR QH 3	SAR R 5	PFI QH 50	PFI R DNQ	AMP QH 26	AMP R 33	LEM QH 31	LEM R 24	13th	19
2019	Ricky Flynn Motorsport	OKJ	ANG QH 5	ANG R 25	GEN QH 11	GEN R 29	KRI QH 20	KRI R 17	LEM QH 11	LEM R 21	26th	6

Racing record

Racing career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2020	F4 Danish Championship	Team FSP	9	2	0	0	7	151	1st
2021	Italian F4 Championship	Prema Powerteam	20	0	0	1	0	60	9th
	ADAC Formula 4 Championship		6	0	0	0	0	2	19th
	Formula 4 UAE Championship - Trophy Round	Abu Dhabi Racing by Prema	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	2nd
2022	Formula 4 UAE Championship	Abu Dhabi Racing by Prema	8	0	0	0	2	56	12th
	Italian F4 Championship	Prema Powerteam	20	0	0	1	2	81	11th
	ADAC Formula 4 Championship		12	1	0	1	4	129	6th
	Ferrari Challenge Europe - Trofeo Pirelli (Pro)	Formula Racing	2	0	0	0	0	15	10th
2023	Asian Le Mans Series - GT	Formula Racing	3	0	0	0	0	4	17th
	European Le Mans Series - LMGTE		6	0	0	0	2	42	7th
2024	European Le Mans Series - LMGT3	Formula Racing

^* Season still in progress.

Complete F4 Danish Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Points
2020	Team FSP	JYL 1 2	JYL 2 3	JYL 3 1	PAD 1 2	PAD 2 3	PAD 3 1	DJU 1 6	DJU 2 3	DJU 3 4	1st	151

Complete Italian F4 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Points
2021	Prema Powerteam	LEC 1 5	LEC 2 Ret	LEC 3 WD	MIS 1 18	MIS 2 Ret	MIS 3 Ret	VLL 1 8	VLL 2 5	VLL 3 6	IMO 1 5	IMO 2 7	IMO 3 Ret	RBR 1 13	RBR 2 13	RBR 3 11	MUG 1 9	MUG 2 13	MUG 3 11	MNZ 1 7	MNZ 2 8	MNZ 3 25		9th	60
2022	Prema Racing	IMO 1 Ret	IMO 2 29	IMO 3 13	MIS 1 6	MIS 2 6	MIS 3 5	SPA 1 8	SPA 2 Ret	SPA 3 2	VLL 1 8	VLL 2 8	VLL 3 11	RBR 1	RBR 2 9	RBR 3 3	RBR 4 6	MNZ 1 32†	MNZ 2 24	MNZ 3 C	MUG 1 Ret	MUG 2 22	MUG 3 Ret	11th	81

Complete ADAC Formula 4 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos	Points
2021	Prema Powerteam	RBR 1 15	RBR 2 17	RBR 3 Ret	ZAN 1 15	ZAN 2 15	ZAN 3 10	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	NÜR 3	HOC1 1	HOC1 2	HOC1 3	SAC 1	SAC 2	SAC 3	HOC2 1	HOC2 2	HOC2 3	19th	2
2022	Prema Racing	SPA 1 4	SPA 2 Ret	SPA 3 3	HOC 1 7	HOC 2 8	HOC 3 9	ZAN 1 3	ZAN 2 7	ZAN 3 1	NÜR1 1 5	NÜR1 2 6	NÜR1 3 2	LAU 1	LAU 2	LAU 3	NÜR2 1	NÜR2 2	NÜR2 3	6th	129

Complete Asian Le Mans Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	Pos.	Points
2023	Formula Racing	GT	Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	DUB 1 8	DUB 2 Ret	ABU 1 Ret	ABU 2 WD	17th	4

Complete European Le Mans Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	Rank	Points
2023	Formula Racing	LMGTE	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	CAT 2	LEC 8	ARA Ret	SPA 2	PRT 12	ALG 9	7th	42
2024	Formula Racing	LMGT3	Ferrari 296 GT3	Ferrari F163 3.0 L Turbo V6	CAT 1	LEC	IMO	SPA	MUG	ALG	1st*	25*

^* Season still in progress.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2024	Sprit of Race	Johnny Laursen Jordan Taylor	Ferrari 296 GT3	LMGT3	279	35th	8th

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External links

• Conrad Laursen career summary at DriverDB.com