Nicki Thiim

NickiThiim
NickiThiim
Personal information
Occupation	racecar driver
YouTube information
Also known as	Team Thiim
Channel	NickiThiim;
Years active	2011-
Genre	sim racing
Subscribers	27.8 thousand; (19 June 2021)
Total views	2,559,576; (19 June 2021)
Catchphrase(s)	Go Hard or Go Home
Creator Awards

Nicki Thiim
Nicki Thiim
	Thiim in 2015
Nationality	Danish
Born	17 April 1989 (age 32); Sønderborg, Denmark
Related to	Kurt Thiim (father)
FIA World Endurance Championship career
Debut season	2013
Current team	NorthWest AMR
Car number	98
Starts	47
Wins	11
Podiums	19
Poles	12
Best finish	1st in 2016, 2019-20
Previous series
2011-12, 14-15; 2011-14; 2009-15; 2007-08	ADAC GT Masters; ; Porsche Supercup; Porsche Carrera Cup Germany; SEAT León Supercopa Germany
Championship titles
2016, 2019-20; 2013; 2008; 2006	World Cup for GT Drivers; Porsche Supercup; SEAT León Supercopa Germany; Danish Formula Ford Championship

Nicki Thiim (born 17 April 1989 in Sønderborg, Denmark) is a Danish professional racing driver, and Aston Martin Racing works driver in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Biography[]

After competing in karting, Thiim won the 2006 Danish Formula Ford Championship. In 2007 he switched to touring car racing, where he finished 5th in the Seat León Supercopa Germany and raced a BMW 3 Series in the Danish Touring Car Championship.^[2] The driver won the 2008 Seat León Supercopa Germany with 8 wins in 16 races.

Thiim advanced to the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany in 2009, finishing 5th. He also won the SP3T class at the 24 Hours of Nürburgring driving a works Volkswagen Scirocco.^[3]

Thiim racing in the 2018 6 Hours of Silverstone.

Thiim finished 4th in the 2011 Porsche Carrera Cup Germany, collecting a win and four podiums.

In 2012, Thiim raced in the Porsche Supercup and Porsche Carrera Cup Germany, finishing 3rd in both. He also got three podiums in the ADAC GT Masters driving a Porsche 911. He continued in both the Porsche Supercup and Porsche Carrera Cup Germany in 2013 and became Porsche Supercup champion.^[4] In the same year, he scored the overall victory at 24 Hours of Nurburgring

After the tragic crash at the 24 Heures du Mans that claimed the life of Aston Martin Racing Young Driver team driver Allan Simonsen, Thiim was the replacement driver for the #95 car for the next three races in the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship season,^[5] and subsequently earned a full-time drive for Aston Martin Racing starting in the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship season. He took the GT Championship with Aston Martin in 2016.^[6]

Thiim is a popular driver in the Sim racing scene racing mainly on the iRacing service. He frequently uploads his races on his Twitch and YouTube channels ^[7] He often refers to his fanbase as "TeamThiim" and has over 20,000 YouTube followers. As well as frequently streaming his races on Twitch.tv.

Nicki Thiim is also well known for his charity 12 hour race where he raised money for Danish children with cancer by hosting a sim racing event attracting over 45 teams and 200+ drivers and raised over 100,000 DKK.

Nicki is also a huge fan of the Ford Ka, which he believes is a compact yet substantial car to drive.

Racing record[]

Career summary[]

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	FLaps	Podiums	Points	Position
2004	Danish Formula Ford Championship	HP Racing	11	3	1	3	6	190	4th
2005	Danish Formula Ford Championship	HP Racing	?	?	?	?	?	164	4th
2005	Formula Ford NEZ	HP Racing	4	0	0	0	0	10	34th
2006	Danish Formula Ford Championship	HP Racing	12	5	3	0	8	281	1st
	Formula Ford NEZ	HP Racing	4	1	0	0	2	32	13th
	Formula Ford Festival – Duratec	Ray Sport	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	8th
	ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup	N/A	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2007	SEAT León Supercopa Germany	GAG Racing Team	15	2	2	0	3	121	5th
2007	Danish Touring Car Championship	Poulsen Motorsport	6	0	0	0	2	60	17th
2008	SEAT León Supercopa Germany	GAG Racing Team	16	8	5	4	12	265	1st
2009	Porsche Carrera Cup Germany	Attempto Racing Team	9	0	0	1	1	99	5th
2011	Porsche Carrera Cup Germany	Hermes Attempto Racing	9	1	2	2	3	94	3rd
	Porsche Supercup	Hermes Attempto Racing	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	Porsche Supercup	SANITEC Aquiles MRS Team	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	ADAC GT Masters	Lambda Performance	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2012	Porsche Supercup	Hermes Attempto Racing	11	1	1	0	3	123	3rd
	Porsche Carrera Cup Germany	Hermes Attempto Racing	17	3	2	0	7	202	3rd
	ADAC GT Masters	Frogreen CO2 neutral	4	0	0	0	1	21	26th
	ADAC GT Masters	Team GT3 Kasko	2	0	0	0	0	21	26th
	American Le Mans Series – GTC	NGT Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	7	28th
2013	Porsche Supercup	Attempto Racing	9	4	3	1	6	140	1st
	Porsche Carrera Cup Germany	Attempto Racing	17	2	4	4	9	217	3rd
	FIA World Endurance Championship – LMGTE Am	Aston Martin Racing	4	1	3	1	2	45	7th
2014	Porsche Supercup	Lechner Racing Team	7	2	2	0	4	91	8th
	Porsche Carrera Cup Germany	QPOD Walter Lechner Racing	15	3	2	3	7	181	5th
	ADAC GT Masters	Prosperia C. Abt Racing	16	0	2	0	2	42	22nd
	FIA World Endurance Championship – LMGTE Am	Aston Martin Racing	5	4	1	2	5	144	3rd
	24 Hours of Le Mans – LMGTE Am	Aston Martin Racing	1	1	0	0	1	N/A	1st
	United SportsCar Championship – GTD	NGT Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	24	70th
2015	Porsche Carrera Cup Germany	KÜS Team 75 Bernhard	17	2	2	3	5	169	5th
	ADAC GT Masters	C. Abt Racing	16	1	0	0	2	87	12th
	FIA World Endurance Championship – LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	3	0	1	1	0	41	13th
	24 Hours of Le Mans – LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	4th
	TCR International Series	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	2	1	1	2	1	30	13th
	Blancpain Endurance Series	Phoenix Racing	1	0	0	0	1	17	16th
	Blancpain Sprint Series	Belgian Audi Team WRT	2	0	0	0	2	21	19th
2016	FIA World Endurance Championship – LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	9	2	3	2	6	156	1st
	24 Hours of Le Mans – LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	5th
	24H Series	Massive Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2017	FIA World Endurance Championship – LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	9	1	1	1	1	104	6th
	24 Hours of Le Mans – LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	9th
	European Le Mans Series – LMGTE	TF Sport	6	1	1	0	5	102	2nd
2018	British GT Championship	TF Sport AMR	9	2	2	1	6	148	3rd
	Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup	R-Motorsport	5	1	2	0	1	29	13th
	24 Hours of Le Mans – LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	8th
2018–19	FIA World Endurance Championship – LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	8	1	2	0	1	65.5	9th
2019	British GT Championship	TF Sport	9	0	1	4	1	72.5	8th
	Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup	R-Motorsport	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup	Oman Racing with TF Sport	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup - Pro-Am	Oman Racing with TF Sport	1	1	0	0	1	49	8th
	24 Hours of Le Mans – LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	1	0	1	0	0	N/A	DNF
2019-20	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	8	3	1	1	5	172	1st
2020	WeatherTech SportsCar Championship - GTD	Heart of Racing Team	1	0	0	0	0	13	59th
2020	24 Hours of Le Mans – LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	3rd
2021	Asian Le Mans Series	Phoenix Racing	4	0	0	0	3	57	4th
	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Am	NorthWest AMR	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Am	NorthWest AMR	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
	GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup	Garage 59 AMR	1	0	0	0	1	22	13th

Complete Porsche Supercup 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	DC	Points
2011	Attempto Racing	TUR	ESP	MON	NNS Ret	GBR	NÜR	HUN					NC	0
2011	SANITEC Aquiles MRS Team								BEL 14	ITA 11	UAE	UAE	NC	0
2012	Hermes Attempto Racing	BHR 7	BHR 6	MON Ret	VAL 4	GBR 8	GER 5	HUN 4	HUN 2	BEL 1	ITA 3		3rd	123
2013	Attempto Racing	ESP 2	MON 8	GBR 1	GER 2	HUN 8	BEL 8	ITA 1	UAE 1	UAE 1			1st	140
2014	Lechner Racing Team	ESP	MON	AUT	GBR 20	GER 1	HUN 2	BEL 2	ITA 6	USA 1	USA 11		8th	91

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results[]

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2014	Aston Martin Racing	David Heinemeier Hansson Kristian Poulsen	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Am	334	17th	1st
2015	Aston Martin Racing	Christoffer Nygaard Marco Sørensen	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	330	27th	4th
2016	Aston Martin Racing	Marco Sørensen Darren Turner	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	338	23rd	5th
2017	Aston Martin Racing	Marco Sørensen Richie Stanaway	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	334	25th	9th
2018	Aston Martin Racing	Marco Sørensen Darren Turner	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	GTE Pro	339	23rd	8th
2019	Aston Martin Racing	Marco Sørensen Darren Turner	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	GTE Pro	132	DNF	DNF
2020	Aston Martin Racing	Marco Sørensen Richard Westbrook	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	GTE Pro	343	22nd	3rd
2021	Aston Martin Racing	Marcos Gomes Paul Dalla Lana	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	GTE Am	45	DNF	DNF

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results[]

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2013	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Am	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL	SPA	LMS	SÃO Ret	COA 2	FUJ	SHA Ret	BHR 1		7th	45
2014	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Am	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 1	SPA	LMS 1	COA	FUJ 1	SHA	BHR 1	SÃO 2		3rd	144
2015	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 4	SPA	LMS 6	NÜR	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR 4		13th	41
2016	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 3	SPA Ret	LMS 2	NÜR 3	MEX 3	COA 1	FUJ 5	SHA 4	BHR 1	1st	156
2017	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 6	SPA 8	LMS 5	NÜR 4	MEX 1	COA 4	FUJ 7	SHA 5	BHR 7	6th	104
2018–19	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8	SPA 7	LMS 5	SIL 17	FUJ 6	SHA 1	SEB 9	SPA 7	LMS Ret		9th	65.5
2019–20	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8	SIL 5	FUJ 1	SHA 5	BHR 1	COA 1	SPA 2	LMS 3	BHR 5		1st	172
2021	NorthWest AMR	LMGTE Am	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8	SPA	ALG	MNZ	LMS Ret	BHR	BHR				NC	0

Complete European Le Mans Series results[]

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	Rank	Points
2017	TF Sport	GTE	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 1	MNZ 2	RBR 3	LEC 2	SPA 5	ALG 3	2nd	102

Complete Asian Le Mans Series results[]

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


Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Engine	Class	No.	1	2	3	4	Pos.	Points
2021	Phoenix Racing	Matthias Kaiser Simon Trummer Kelvin van der Linde	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	P2	5	DUB 1 3	DUB 2 3	ABU 1 4	ABU 2 3	4th	57

Complete TCR International Series results[]

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Points
2015	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	Audi TT Cup	SEP 1	SEP 2	SHA 1	SHA 2	VAL 1	VAL 2	ALG 1 1	ALG 2 13†	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	SAL 1	SAL 2	SOC 1	SOC 2	RBR 1	RBR 2	MRN 1	MRN 2	CHA 1	CHA 2	MAC 1	MAC 2	13th	30

^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete Blancpain Sprint Series results[]

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Points
2015	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	Audi R8 LMS ultra	Pro	NOG QR	NOG CR	BRH QR	BRH CR	ZOL QR	ZOL CR			ALG QR	ALG CR	MIS QR	MIS CR	ZAN QR 2	ZAN CR 3	19th	21

Complete British GT Championship results[]

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

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Points
2018	TF Sport AMR	Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3	GT3	OUL 1 11	OUL 2 3	ROC 1 8	SNE 1 1	SNE 2 3	SIL 1 1	SPA 1 Ret	BRH 1 3	DON 1 2	3rd	148
2019	TF Sport	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	GT3	OUL 1 10	OUL 2 Ret	SNE 1 8	SNE 2 4	SIL 1 2	DON 1 9	SPA 1 5	BRH 1 7	DON 1 10	8th	72.5

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results[]

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Rank	Points
2020	Heart of Racing Team	GTD	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	Aston Martin 4.0 L Turbo V8	DAY 18	DAY	SEB	ELK	VIR	ATL	MDO	CLT	PET	LGA	SEB	59th	13

References[]

^ ^a ^b "About NickiThiim". YouTube.
^ Kurt Thiim replaced by Nicki Thiim Archived 1 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine – Touring Car Times, 13 August 2007
^ Volkswagen Scirocco shows class at Nürburgring Archived 13 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine – Ausringers, 25 May 2009
^ "Nicki Thiim vinder Porsche Super Cup". Bil magasinet (in Danish). 4 November 2013. Archived from the original on 2 June 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
^ Nygaard, Af Peter (14 August 2013). "Nicki Thiim erstatter afdøde Allan Simonsen i 'danskerbilen'". www.b.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2 June 2018.
^ "Nicki Thiim står foran en udfordring". jv.dk (in Danish). 17 June 2016. Archived from the original on 2 June 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
^ "Nicki Thiim's youtube channel". YouTube. Retrieved 29 July 2018.

External links[]

Official website
Nicki Thiim career summary at DriverDB.com
2012 Interview (in Danish)
Nicki Thiim at Racing Sports Cars
Nicki Thiim at Speedsport Magazine
Nicki Thiim's channel on YouTube
Nicki Thiim on Twitch

Sporting positions
Preceded by Mark Kamstrup	Danish Formula Ford Championship Champion 2006	Succeeded by Christian Markussen
Preceded by Thomas Marschall	SEAT León Supercopa Germany Champion 2008	Succeeded by Thomas Marschall
Preceded by René Rast	Porsche Supercup Champion 2013	Succeeded by Earl Bamber
Preceded by Richard Lietz	FIA World Endurance Cup for GT Drivers 2016 With: Marco Sørensen	Succeeded by James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi (World Endurance GT Drivers' Championship)
Preceded by Michael Christensen Kévin Estre	World Endurance GT Drivers' Championship Champion 2019-20 With: Marco Sørensen	Succeeded by James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi

[YouTubeStatsNickiThiim-1] "About NickiThiim". YouTube.

[Yb5Em-2] Kurt Thiim replaced by Nicki Thiim Archived 1 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine – Touring Car Times, 13 August 2007

[73rZn-3] Volkswagen Scirocco shows class at Nürburgring Archived 13 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine – Ausringers, 25 May 2009

[Bil_magasinet_2013-4] "Nicki Thiim vinder Porsche Super Cup". Bil magasinet (in Danish). 4 November 2013. Archived from the original on 2 June 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2018.

[Nygaard_2013-5] Nygaard, Af Peter (14 August 2013). "Nicki Thiim erstatter afdøde Allan Simonsen i 'danskerbilen'". www.b.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2 June 2018.

[jv.dk_2016-6] "Nicki Thiim står foran en udfordring". jv.dk (in Danish). 17 June 2016. Archived from the original on 2 June 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2018.

[7] "Nicki Thiim's youtube channel". YouTube. Retrieved 29 July 2018.

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Five-time	Timo Bernhard Pedro Lamy Marcel Tiemann
Four-time	Marc Duez Romain Dumas Marc Lieb Peter Zakowski
Three-time	Klaus Ludwig Hans-Joachim Stuck Markus Winkelhock
Two-time	Uwe Alzen Michael Bartels Christopher Haase Altfrid Heger Lucas Luhr Christopher Mies Jörg Müller Klaus Niedzwiedz Roberto Ravaglia Sabine Schmitz Bernd Schneider Frank Stippler Hans-Jürgen Tiemann Joachim Winkelhock
One-time	Basseng Bleekemolen Burgstaller Cairoli Catsburg Cecotto Christensen Christodoulou Danner De Phillippi Edwards Eng Engel Estre Farfus Giroix Hahne Hohenzollern Huisman Kaffer Kelleners Konrad Lauda Lietz Makowiecki Martin Mayländer Menzel D. Müller N. Müller Nissen Oestreich Pilet Pirro Priaulx Rast Reuter Rockenfeller Said Scheider Sims Soper Tandy Thiim van der Linde D. Vanthoor L. Vanthoor Vervisch Yelloly

v t FIA World Endurance Championship champions
World Endurance Drivers' Championship	2012 André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer Marcel Fässler 2013 Allan McNish Tom Kristensen Loïc Duval 2014 Anthony Davidson Sébastien Buemi 2015 Timo Bernhard Mark Webber Brendon Hartley 2016 Marc Lieb Romain Dumas Neel Jani 2017 Timo Bernhard Brendon Hartley Earl Bamber 2018–19 Sébastien Buemi Fernando Alonso Kazuki Nakajima 2019–20 Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi José María López
World Endurance GT Drivers' Championship	2013 Gianmaria Bruni 2014 Gianmaria Bruni Toni Vilander 2015 Richard Lietz 2016 Nicki Thiim Marco Sørensen 2017 James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi 2018–19 Michael Christensen Kévin Estre 2019–20 Marco Sørensen Nicki Thiim
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