Jeff Krosnoff

Jeff Krosnoff was an American racing driver, born the September 24th 1964 with Tulsa (Oklahoma, the United States) and deceased the July 14th 1996 with Toronto (Canada) in an accident which has occurred at the time of a sleeve of the championship CART.

Biography

It is into 1983 that Krosnoff carries out its beginnings in automobile sport. After having foamed with a certain success various formulas of promotion in North America (Ford Formula, Mazda Formula) while continuing brilliant studies, it is exiled in Japan as from 1989 to dispute there the local championship of Formule 3000. In parallel, it takes share as from 1990 with the championship of Japan of Sport-Prototype. This implication in the tests of protos enables him to dispute the on several occasions 24 hours of Mans (of which it finishes the edition 1994 in second position, as a crew with Mauro Martini and Eddie Irvine on a Toyota).

In 1996, and after seven seasons spent to Japan, Krosnoff makes its return to the United States to dispute the championship CART there. It is integrated into the modest team pi Arciero-Wells, which makes begin the new Toyota engine. At the time of the Grand Prix of Toronto, it is victim of a fixing with the old driver of Formule 1 Stefan Johansson during which its car takes off literally before running up against a pylon. Krosnoff is killed on the blow, as well as a police chief of track.

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