Jesse Krohn
Krohn at theBrno Circuit in 2025
Nationality	Finnish
Born	(1990-09-03)3 September 1990 (age 35) Nurmijärvi (Finland)
Related to	Pertti Kurki-Suonio(Father) Jenni Krohn(Sister) Oskari Kurki-Suonio(Brother)
Italian Formula Three career
Debut season	2010
Current team	RP Motorsport
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Car number	21
Previous series
2006 2007 2007 2008 2008 2008 2009	Formula Ford Finland Formula Ford UK Finnish Formula Three Formula Renault Finland Formula Renault NEZ Formula RenaultEstonia Formula Renault UK
Championship titles
2008 2008 2008	Formula RenaultFinland Formula Renault NEZ Formula RenaultEstonia

Jesse Kurki-Suonio (born 3 September 1990), more commonly known asJesse Krohn, is a Finnish professional racing driver, andBMW Motorsport works driver, currently competing in theIMSA SportsCar Championship forBMW M Team RLL.

He is notable for winning the Finnish, Northern European Zone (NEZ) andEstonianFormula Renault championships. Krohn comes from a motorsport central family, with his father, Pertti, competing in the 1987 FinnishFormula Ford championship alongside 1998 and 1999 Formula One world championMika Häkkinen whilst his sister, Jenni, and brother, Oskari also compete in motorsport professionally in Finland.

Jesse Krohn was born inNurmijärvi, located in the southernUusimaa region ofFinland, during September 1990. His father, Pertti Kurki-Suonio was a racing driver, who competed in the FinnishFormula Ford championship alongside futureFormula One driversMika Häkkinen andMika Salo. However, despite finishing behind Salo and Häkkinen in the championship, Pertti's career never went beyond Scandinavia, excluding a one-off appearance atBrands Hatch for the Formula Ford festival.

His elder sister, Jenni, and younger brother, Oskari, are also both racing drivers both currently racing in their native Finland.

Krohn began his career inkarts when he was six, he spent nine years karting before moving up into car racing in 2005 as a test driver for saloon cars. In 2006, he competed in a number ofFormula Ford events in his home country, finishing in eighth, and also competing in the Ford Ford Festival atBrands Hatch, finishing 10th, and also in the British Formula Ford Winter Series, finishing as runner up toBrit David Mayes. The Finn entered the full UK championship the following year as well as the FinnishFormula Three championship, "I was in a '97Dallara with a H-pattern gearbox" Krohn recalls, "my shoulders were over the cockpit".^[1] In the UK championship, Krohn finished the year in 17th with 82 points whilst he had a better time in Finnish Formula Three with six wins and finishing second overall in the championship. He also re-entered the Formula Ford festival as well, performing better than the previous year finishing eighth.

2008 was Krohn's best year yet, with three championship wins in the Finnish, Northern European Zone (NEZ) andEstonianFormula Renault championships, recording ten wins in total. He also competed in the British, Italian and Northern European championships as well, but experiencing little success by comparison. With a number of successes the previous year, Krohn entered the UK Formula Renault championship for the whole season where he has so far tallied 117 points, including a win atThruxton.

Krohn gained some notoriety during the year as well after climbing up from twenty–fifth to seventh in the wet conditions atDonington Park but soon dropped out of the point after his suspension failed and so had to complete the final three laps on three wheels, "exactly whatJan Magnussen would have done" commented Mark Burdett Motorsport engineer Andy Miller, who ran theDanish driver during his 1994British Formula 3 campaign.^[1]

2014 saw Krohn admitted into theBMW Motorsport Junior Programme in which he trained in for three years, with established works drivers likeDirk Adorf andJörg Müller. He won the2017–18 Asian Le Mans Series GT Drivers title with Jun San Chen in the FIST-Team AAI BMW M6 GT3, and was promoted to BMW works driver in 2018.

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^* Season still in progress.

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2016	Turner Motorsport	Michael Marsal Markus Palttala Maxime Martin	BMW M6 GT3	GTD	701	19th	5th
2017	Turner Motorsport	Justin Marks Jens Klingmann Maxime Martin	BMW M6 GT3	GTD	628	25th	8th
2018	BMWTeam RLL	Nick Catsburg John Edwards Augusto Farfus	BMW M8 GTE	GTLM	773	18th	7th
2019	BMWTeam RLL	John Edwards Chaz Mostert Alex Zanardi	BMW M8 GTE	GTLM	553	31st	9th
2020	BMWTeam RLL	John Edwards Chaz Mostert Augusto Farfus	BMW M8 GTE	GTLM	786	13th	1st
2021	BMWTeam RLL	John Edwards Augusto Farfus Marco Wittmann	BMW M8 GTE	GTLM	769	13th	3rd
2022	BMWTeam RLL	John Edwards Augusto Farfus Connor De Phillippi	BMW M4 GT3	GTD Pro	698	30th	7th
2024	BMWTeam RLL	Philipp Eng Augusto Farfus Dries Vanthoor	BMW M Hybrid V8	GTP	776	8th	8th
Source:[2]

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Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2019	BMWTeam MTEK	António Félix da Costa Augusto Farfus	BMW M8 GTE	GTE Pro	335	30th	10th
Sources:[2][12]

• Official website
• Jesse Krohn career summary at DriverDB.com

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• People from Nurmijärvi
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