Tracy Krohn

Tracy Krohn at the 2013 Silverstone 6 Hours

The Krohn-Racing-Lola B08 / 70 before the start of the 2008 New Jersey 200 mile race

The Krohn-Racing-Ligier JS P2 at the 2015 Daytona 24-hour race

Tracy Krohn (born August 26, 1954 in Houston ) is an American entrepreneur, racing car driver and racing team owner.

Entrepreneur

According to the list of the richest people in the United States, The World's Billionaires , published by the US business magazine Forbes , it was 278th at the end of 2014. Currently, he is not among the first 400. 2005 was a then estimated fortune of 1.1 billion - US dollar for the first time as Billionaire called. Today he is said to have a net worth of more than $ 3 billion.

Krohn was born in Texas and grew up there with his father. His parents were divorced and his mother lived in New Orleans where she worked for a small oil company. After high school and an extended stay in Europe , he studied petroleum and natural gas engineering at Louisiana State University . After completing his studies, he worked for various oil production companies , including Mobil Oil .

In 1983 he founded his own company with seed capital of 12,000 US dollars. W&T Offshore produces oil and natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico . Krohn now makes a profit of more than 1 million US dollars per day with his company.

Krohn is married for the second time and has two children from his first marriage.

Career as a racing driver and team boss

Tracy Krohn started motorsport in 2003. After the first season, where he gained his first experience with racing starts in national sports car series, he started in the American Le Mans Series in 2004 . Just before the end of the 2015 racing year, he had contested 159 sports car races. In addition to an overall victory, he was able to celebrate two class wins. The overall win was early in the career, the 6 Hours of Watkins Glen in 2005 , a championship round of the Rolex Sports Car Series this year , he won with partner Niclas Jönsson on a Riley Mk.XI .

Niclas Jönsson became Krohn's most important racing partner. For the two pilots, who became close friends over the years, this partnership was an advantage. With Jönsson, Krohn received a reliable and fast professional racing driver at his side and Jönsson a fixed cockpit for many years, combined with a lucrative contract.

In 2005 he founded his own racing team with Krohn Racing . For many years, Krohn drove mainly in the GT classes in the North American sports car series and came second in 2007 and third in class in the Le Mans 24-hour race in 2009 and 2012 . In 2007 he also achieved the best placement and final classification with 19th place. In 2015 he was at Sebring .

In 2015, Krohn acquired a Ligier JS P2 . The Ligier was a lot faster than the GT-Ferraris with which Krohn was previously active. During the 2015 race, he produced a large number of turntables that led some TV commentators to make nasty remarks. After the race it turned out that the traction control had failed due to an electrical problem. While the two professional racing drivers Jönsson and João Barbosa were able to cope with it to some extent, Krohn had considerable problems with it. In the end, the trio came in 28th overall.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2006	White Lightning Racing	Porsche 996 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Niclas Jönsson	failure	accident
2007	Risi Competizione	Ferrari F430 GT	Colin Braun	Niclas Jönsson	Rank 19
2008	Risi Competizione	Ferrari F430 GT	Eric van de Poele	Niclas Jönsson	failure	accident
2009	Risi Competizione	Ferrari F430 GTC	Eric van de Poele	Niclas Jönsson	Rank 22
2010	Risi Competizione	Ferrari F430 GT2	Eric van de Poele	Niclas Jönsson	failure	Engine failure
2011	Krohn Racing	Ferrari F430 GTE	Michele Rugolo	Niclas Jönsson	failure	malfunction
2012	Krohn Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GTC	Michele Rugolo	Niclas Jönsson	Rank 26
2013	Krohn Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Maurizio Mediani	Niclas Jönsson	failure	malfunction
2014	Krohn Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ben Collins	Niclas Jönsson	Rank 30
2015	Krohn Racing	Ligier JS P2	João Barbosa	Niclas Jönsson	Rank 32
2016	Krohn Racing	Ligier JS P2	João Barbosa	Niclas Jönsson	Rank 22
2017	DH Racing	Ferrari 488 GTE	Andrea Bertolini	Niclas Jönsson	Rank 42
2018	Eurasia Motorsport	Ligier JS P217	Andrea Bertolini	Niclas Jönsson	not classified

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2004	PK Sport	Porsche 911 GT3-R	David Warnock	Alex Caffi	failure	Clutch damage
2005	TRG	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	Michael Cawley	Marc Sluszny	Rank 15
2007	Risi Competizione	Ferrari F430 GT	Niclas Jönsson	Colin Braun	Rank 22
2008	Risi Competizione	Ferrari F430 GTC	Niclas Jönsson	Eric van de Poele	Rank 14
2009	Risi Competizione	Ferrari F430 GTC	Niclas Jönsson	Eric van de Poele	Rank 12
2010	Risi Competizione	Ferrari F430 GTC	Niclas Jönsson	Eric van de Poele	Rank 14
2011	Krohn Racing	Ferrari F430 GTE	Niclas Jönsson	Michele Rugolo	Rank 19
2012	Krohn Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia	Niclas Jönsson	Michele Rugolo	Rank 47
2014	Krohn Racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Niclas Jönsson	Andrea Bertolini	Rank 15
2015	Krohn Racing	Ligier JS P2	Niclas Jönsson	Olivier Pla	Rank 8
2016	Krohn Racing	Audi R8 LMS ultra	Niclas Jönsson	Pierre Kaffer	Rank 36

Web links

Commons : Tracy Krohn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Krohn Racing website
• Tracy Krohn at Racing Sports Cars
• Tracy Krohn at the Driver Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of the Richest Americans (English)
2. ↑ Tracy Krohn in an interview
3. ↑ Krohn with his second wife in Le Mans in 2010
4. Jump up ↑ Watkins Glen 6 Hours 2005
5. ↑ Krohn's problems in Le Mans 2015