Marco Sørensen

Marco L. Sørensen (born 6 September 1990) is a Danish racing driver currently racing for Aston Martin Racing as a factory driver in the FIA World Endurance Championship. He was part of the Renault Driver Development.[1] He has competed in such series as Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, ADAC Formel Masters and the British Formula Ford Championship. His younger brother, Lasse, is also a racing driver and currently competes in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series.

Marco Sørensen
Sørensen in 2012.
Nationality	Danish
Born	6 September 1990
Related to	Lasse Sørensen (brother)
FIA World Endurance Championship career
Debut season	2015
Current team	Aston Martin Racing
Car number	95
Starts	41
Wins	7
Podiums	10
Poles	11
Best finish	1st in 2016, 2019-20
Previous series
2014-15 2012-14 2010–11 2009 2009 2008 2008 2008 2007 2007 2006–07	GP2 Series Formula Renault 3.5 Series German Formula Three Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 British Formula Ford ADAC Formel Masters FR2.0 Portugal Winter Series Formula Ford NEZ Formula Ford Sweden Formula Ford Denmark

Career

Sørensen during Race 1 of the 2014 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season at Moscow Raceway.

Sørensen made his debut in karting back in 1994 and had his first real race in 1998. He began Formula racing in 2006 with Formula Ford Denmark. In 2008 was he able to place fourth in the ADAC Formel Masters despite only completing half of the season.

Sørensen was taken under Renault's wing and became a part of the 2009 Renault Driver Development Programme with Davide Valsecchi and Charles Pic. That made him able to move up to Formula Renault in 2009 with Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup and the Eurocup. Later that year, the programme was shut down because of financial problems which set Sørensen's career back.

In the middle of 2010 Sørensen was able to secure a drive in the German Formula Three series, with Brandl Motorsport. He continued in 2011 and finished runner-up in the series after a tough battle with eventual champion Richie Stanaway. He also had one-off entry at Silverstone in 2011 Formula 3 Euro Series with Mücke Motorsport, winning the reverse-grid race.

Sørensen had no plans for 2012 until Lotus called him and offered a test in the Formula Renault 3.5, in which he impressed sufficiently to be offered a seat alongside former title rival Stanaway at the team.

He took his first win in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series at the first race at Spa, having already retired from a commanding position due technical problems in the second race at Aragon. Another potential win slipped from Sørensen's grasp at the second race at Silverstone, suffering a puncture whilst leading comfortably on the final lap. After two more second-place finishes, he finished the season in joint fifth position with Nick Yelloly. Sørensen had another disaster season with engine problems in 2013 Formula Renault 3.5, but managed to take pole and victory in both races at Red Bull Ring.

GP2 Series

In 2014, Sørensen switched to GP2, replacing Tio Ellinas at MP Motorsport for the races at Silverstone and beyond. That same year, he took his first GP2 win in Sochi.

He switched to Carlin, replacing the Sauber-bound Felipe Nasr, for the 2015 season, his first full season in GP2.

Formula One

In September 2013, Sørensen undertook a tyre test at Circuit Paul Ricard with the Lotus F1 team[2] and has become one of Lotus's test drivers.[3]

World Endurance

Sørensen racing in the 2018 6 Hours of Silverstone.

In 2015 Sørensen joined the Dane Train with Nicki Thiim and Christoffer Nygaard and became a full-time factory driver for Aston Martin. He continued with Nicki Thiim after 2015 where Aston Martin Racing cut one of their GTE Pro cars out of the series. With Nicki he took his first endurance win in Austin in 2016 where they later manage to take the GT Championship. The #95 is mostly just driven by Sørensen and Nicki Thiim in which it still goes under the name the Dane Train.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2007	Danish Formula Ford Championship	Lucas Racing	16	4	7	16	12	238	3rd
2008	ADAC Formel Masters	ma-con Motorsport	8	4	5	3	6	125	4th
	British Formula Ford Championship	Fluid Motorsport Development	22	1	0	3	5	327	8th
	Formula Renault 2.0 Portugal Winter Series	Motopark Academy	2	0	0	0	1	12	11th
2009	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Motopark Academy	14	0	0	0	0	15	15th
	Formula Renault 2.0 NEC		14	1	0	1	4	232	3rd
2010	German Formula 3 Championship	Brandl Motorsport	8	0	1	0	1	18	11th
2011	German Formula 3 Championship	Brandl Motorsport	16	2	2	2	15	126	2nd
	Formula 3 Euro Series	Mücke Motorsport	3	1	1	1	1	0	NC†
2012	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Lotus	17	1	0	0	3	122	6th
2013	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Lotus	17	2	2	1	3	113	7th
2014	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Tech 1 Racing	17	0	0	0	1	44	12th
	GP2 Series	MP Motorsport	14	1	0	0	1	47	11th
2015	GP2 Series	Carlin	8	0	0	0	0	0	33rd
	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	7	0	1	0	0	81	8th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Pro		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	4th
2016	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	9	2	3	0	6	156	1st
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Pro		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	5th
2017	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	9	1	1	0	1	104	6th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMGTE Pro		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	9th
	WeatherTech SportsCar Championship - GTD		1	0	0	0	0	19	69th
2018	British GT Championship	TF Sport AMR	9	1	0	4	2	98	6th
	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	Beechdean AMR	5	0	0	0	1	33	18th
	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	0	5	172	1st
2020	24 Hours of Le Mans – LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Racing	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	3rd

^† As Sørensen was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series 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	Pos	Points
2012	Lotus	ALC 1 7	ALC 2 Ret	MON 1 6	SPA 1 1	SPA 2 7	NÜR 1 6	NÜR 2 2	MSC 1 7	MSC 2 Ret	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 19†	HUN 1 8	HUN 2 2	LEC 1 5	LEC 2 5	CAT 2 10	CAT 2 Ret	6th	122
2013	Lotus	MNZ 1 19	MNZ 2 18	ALC 1 9	ALC 2 10	MON 1 2	SPA 1 5	SPA 2 10	MSC 1 10	MSC 2 17	RBR 1 1	RBR 2 1	HUN 1 12	HUN 2 9	LEC 1 4	LEC 2 5	CAT 1 Ret	CAT 2 7	7th	113
2014	Tech 1 Racing	MNZ 1 Ret	MNZ 2 Ret	ALC 1 15	ALC 2 7	MON 1 2	SPA 1 8	SPA 2 10	MSC 1 15	MSC 2 15	NÜR 1 10	NÜR 2 14	HUN 1 7	HUN 2 9	LEC 1 8	LEC 2 Ret	JER 1 9	JER 2 Ret	12th	44

Complete GP2 Series results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Points
2014	MP Motorsport	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	CAT FEA	CAT SPR	MON FEA	MON SPR	RBR FEA	RBR SPR	SIL FEA 9	SIL SPR 8	HOC FEA 9	HOC SPR 4	HUN FEA 10	HUN SPR 10	SPA FEA 14	SPA SPR 11	MNZ FEA 7	MNZ SPR 4	SOC FEA 8	SOC SPR 1	YMC FEA Ret	YMC SPR 21	11th	47
2015	Carlin	BHR FEA Ret	BHR SPR 21	CAT FEA 19	CAT SPR 22	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR 20	RBR FEA 18	RBR SPR 16	SIL FEA	SIL SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	SPA FEA	SPA SPR	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SOC FEA	SOC SPR	BHR FEA	BHR SPR	YMC FEA	YMC SPR	33rd	0

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2015	Aston Martin Racing	LMGTE Pro	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	Aston Martin 4.5 L V8	SIL 4	SPA 6	LMS 6	NÜR 4	COA 5	FUJ 5	SHA	BHR 4		8th	81
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

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2015	Aston Martin Racing	Christoffer Nygaard Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	330	27th	4th
2016	Aston Martin Racing	Nicki Thiim Darren Turner	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	338	23rd	5th
2017	Aston Martin Racing	Nicki Thiim Richie Stanaway	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	GTE Pro	334	25th	9th
2018	Aston Martin Racing	Nicki Thiim Darren Turner	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	GTE Pro	339	23rd	8th
2019	Aston Martin Racing	Nicki Thiim Darren Turner	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	GTE Pro	132	DNF	DNF
2020	Aston Martin Racing	Nicki Thiim Richard Westbrook	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	GTE Pro	343	22nd	3rd

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 9	OUL 2 2	ROC 1 7	SNE 1 6	SNE 2 1	SIL 1 5	SPA 1 7	BRH 1 6	DON 1 Ret	6th	98
2019	Beechdean AMR	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	GT3	OUL 1 9	OUL 2 3	SNE 1 10	SNE 2 11	SIL 1 5	DON 1	SPA 1	BRH 1	DON 1	18th	33

References

1. "The Renault Driver development Programme announces its 2009 class". f1technical.net. F1 Technical. 19 January 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2010.
2. "Sorensen set for Lotus reserve role in wake of Saxo deal". GrandPrix247. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
3. "Charles Pic and Marco Sorensen get Lotus F1 test roles for 2014". Autosport. 21 February 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2014.

External links

• Official website
• Marco Sørensen on Twitter
• Marco Sørensen career summary at DriverDB.com