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| Jesse Krohn | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Krohn at theBrno Circuit in 2025 | |
| Nationality |  Finnish |
| Born | (1990-09-03)3 September 1990 (age 35) |
| Relatives | 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 Silver(until 2017) FIA Gold(2018–) |
| 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 forPaul Miller Racing.
Krohn 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.
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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.
Krohn's 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 tenth, 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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | P1 Motorsport | HOC 1 | HOC 2 | ZAN 1 | ZAN 2 | ALA 1 10 | ALA 2 Ret | OSC 1 | OSC 2 | ASS 1 | ASS 2 | ZOL 1 | ZOL 2 | NÜR 1 | NÜR 2 | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | 30th | 11 |
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| Year | Team | Make | Engine | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Rank | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | BMW Sports Trophy Marc VDS | BMW Z4 GTE | BMW 4.4 LV8 | LMGTE | SIL 4 | IMO 4 | RBR 4 | LEC 2 | EST 1 | 2nd | 79 |
| Source:[2] | |||||||||||
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* Season still in progress.
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 |  Schubert Motorsport |  Augusto FarfusJörg MüllerMarco Wittmann | BMW M6 GT3 | SP9 | 60 | NC | NC |
| 2017 | Schubert Motorsport | Jörg Müller Bruno SpenglerKuno Wittmer | BMW M6 GT3 | SP9 | 157 | 11th | 11th |
| 2018 | Rowe Racing |  Connor De Phillippi Alexander SimsMartin Tomczyk | BMW M6 GT3 | SP9 | 16 | DNF | DNF |
| 2019 | Rowe Racing |  Nicky CatsburgJohn EdwardsMarco Wittmann | BMW M6 GT3 | SP9 | 8 | DNF | DNF |
| 2021 | Schubert Motorsport | Stef DusseldorpJens KlingmannAlexander Sims | BMW M6 GT3 | SP9 | 59 | 6th | 6th |
| 2022 | Schubert Motorsport | Jens KlingmannNiklas KrüttenAlexander Sims | BMW M4 GT3 | SP9 | 153 | DNF | DNF |
| 2023 | Walkenhorst Motorsport |  Kuba Giermaziak Christian Krognes Andy Soucek | BMW M4 GT3 | SP9 | 39 | DNF | DNF |
| 2025 | Rowe Racing | Augusto Farfus Kelvin van der Linde Raffaele Marciello | BMW M4 GT3 Evo | SP9 | 141 | 1st | 1st |
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Make | Engine | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Rank | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | FIST-Team AAI | BMW M6 GT3 | BMW 4.4 L V8 | GT | ZHU | FUJ | BUR 4 | SEP | 13th | 12 |
| 2017-18 | FIST-Team AAI | BMW M6 GT3 | BMW 4.4 L V8 | GT | ZHU 1 | FUJ 1 | BUR 1 | SEP 1 | 1st | 95 |
| Source:[2] | ||||||||||
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position; races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Class | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Rank | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018–19 | BMW Team MTEK | LMGTE Pro | BMW M8 GTE | BMW S63 4.0 L Turbo V8 | SPA | LMS | SIL | FUJ | SHA | SEB | SPA | LMS 6 | 23rd | 12 |
| Sources:[2][12] | ||||||||||||||
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | BMWTeam MTEK |  António Félix da CostaAugusto Farfus | BMW M8 GTE | GTE Pro | 335 | 30th | 10th |
| Sources:[2][13] | |||||||
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| Preceded by | Michelin Endurance Cup GTLM Champion 2020 With:John Edwards | Succeeded by |
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