Conrad Laursen

Laursen began karting competitively as a young child, winning the Danish Cadet Mini Championship in 2015 before progressing through international junior karting circuits including the WSK Super Master Series and CIK-FIA European Championship in the OKJ class. His results on the international karting scene were mid-field but provided the technical foundation for a move into cars.

In 2020, aged thirteen, he made his single-seater debut in the F4 Danish Championship with Team FSP. A dominant start at Jyllandsringen — where he finished second, third, and first across the three-race weekend — was matched at Padborg Park with identical results. After collecting another podium at Ring Djursland, he was declared champion when the season finale was cancelled, ending with two wins and seven podiums from nine starts.

In 2021 Laursen joined the Prema Powerteam for the Italian F4 Championship, finishing ninth overall after a season that showed flashes of genuine pace — fifth at Le Castellet, consistent points at Vallelunga and Imola — but was blighted by a spin in the final Monza race that cost him the rookie title to Nikita Bedrin by a narrow margin. He also made limited ADAC Formula 4 appearances with Prema that year.

In 2022 he continued with Prema across the Italian F4, ADAC F4, and F4 UAE championships. His highlight of the year was an emphatic ADAC F4 victory at Zandvoort, where he fought from nineteenth on the reverse-grid to pass teammate Andrea Kimi Antonelli in the closing stages and win by less than a tenth of a second. He finished sixth in the ADAC F4 standings and eleventh in the Italian series. He also made appearances in the Ferrari Challenge Europe at the Hockenheimring, taking two top-five finishes as his first exposure to GT machinery.

Laursen made his GT debut in the 2022 Ferrari Challenge Europe and then committed fully to sportscar competition from 2023, joining his father Johnny and compatriot Nicklas Nielsen in the AF Corse-run Formula Racing team in both the Asian Le Mans Series and the European Le Mans Series in the GT category. The trio scored two second-place results in the ELMS to finish seventh in the GT standings.

Remaining with Formula Racing for the ELMS in 2024, now reclassified as LMGT3, Laursen took his first outright sportscar victory at the 4 Hours of Barcelona. The win came after difficulties for the leading Iron Dames entry, allowing the Laursens and Nielsen to inherit the lead — also ending Formula Racing's ELMS win drought dating back to 2015. Despite a retirement at Spa after Johnny Laursen was collected in a collision with Grégoire Saucy, a third at Mugello and fourth at Portimão helped the team finish sixth in the points.

Laursen made his 24 Hours of Le Mans debut in 2024 alongside his father and Jordan Taylor with Spirit of Race. The car ran inside the top five until Laursen was involved in a collision that dropped the crew two laps behind the leaders; he nevertheless posted the fastest lap in the LMGT3 category and the team finished eighth in class. Later that year he made his FIA World Endurance Championship debut at the 8 Hours of Bahrain, substituting for Clemens Schmid at Akkodis ASP.

In 2025 Laursen ran a dual programme. In the ELMS he partnered Ferrari factory driver Davide Rigon and Charles-Henri Samani, finishing ninth in the standings but earning the Goodyear Golden Wingfoot Award for the best average stint times across the season. He narrowly missed a podium at Le Castellet after spinning while chasing third, and was demoted from third to fourth at Imola through a Full-Course Yellow infringement penalty.

In the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup he joined Dennis Marschall and Dustin Blattner in the Bronze Cup class with Kessel Racing. The team won the Paul Ricard season opener after Marschall held off Dan Harper in the final hour, then secured a class victory at the 24 Hours of Spa with Laursen charging from third to first during a night stint. Blattner's qualifying effort at the Nürburgring put the team on Bronze Cup pole, but a four-car collision in the race ended their day. A third-place Bronze Cup finish at Barcelona sealed the championship for the trio.

Laursen also contested the 24 Hours of Daytona with AF Corse at the start of the 2025 season, marking his first entry into North American endurance racing.

Laursen has continued with AF Corse in the 2026 ELMS and with Selected Car Racing in the GTWC Endurance Cup, and competed at the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans.