Biography

Son of Carl Erik Kristensen, the first Dane to complete Paris-Dakar.

Most consecutive wins in Le Mans with 6 wins, (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005).

Has won the 24 hour race at Le Mans a total of 9 times 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2013.

Besides his 9 wins at Le Mans his biggest wins include:

• 6 wins at 12 hour race at Sebring (1999, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2009 & 2012)
• FIA world endurance championship 2013
• German formula 3 champion 1991
• Japanese formula 3 champion 1993
• Petit Le Mans 2002
• Danish gokart champion 1984
• Nordic gokart champion 1985 (beating Mika Häkkinen).

Out of his 9 wins at Le Mans 7 of them have been in an Audi.

Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, so in the whole focus, the whole energy, you know that you cannot change the world and have a race two weeks later.

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.

I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.

The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.