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About Krohn Racing
The Krohn Racing team was formed in late 2005 to campaign the 2006 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
The team's inaugural race was the Rolex 24 At Daytona in January 2006 with a single car, which finished in the Top Five. Krohn Racing competed the remainder of the season as a two-car team, collecting three victories, six podium finishes, one pole position, and 14 Top Ten finishes on their way to winning the Grand-Am Daytona Prototype Drivers' Championship. They also finished second in the Daytona Prototype Team Championship.
In 2007, Krohn Racing team fielded two Pontiac Rileys and finished fourth in the Grand-Am Prototype Team Championship after collecting six podiums, nine Top Five, and 15 Top Ten finishes, as well as two pole positions.
For 2008, Krohn Racing has two new Pontiac Lolas in which to contest the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
Krohn Racing is an independent racing team owned by Tracy W. Krohn of Houston, Texas.Source - Krohn Racing
The Krohn Racing team was formed in late 2005 to campaign the 2006 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
The team's inaugural race was the Rolex 24 At Daytona in January 2006 with a single car, which finished in the Top Five. Krohn Racing competed the remainder of the season as a two-car team, collecting three victories, six podium finishes, one pole position, and 14 Top Ten finishes on their way to winning the Grand-Am Daytona Prototype Drivers' Championship. They also finished second in the Daytona Prototype Team Championship.
In 2007, Krohn Racing team fielded two Pontiac Rileys and finished fourth in the Grand-Am Prototype Team Championship after collecting six podiums, nine Top Five, and 15 Top Ten finishes, as well as two pole positions.
For 2008, Krohn Racing has two new Pontiac Lolas in which to contest the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
Krohn Racing is an independent racing team owned by Tracy W. Krohn of Houston, Texas.Source - Krohn Racing
Krohn Racing Post Race Report from EMCO Gears Classic at Mid-OhioThe EMCO Gears Classic at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, round seven of 14 in Grand-Am Rolex Spots Car Series competition, was won by defending Grand-Am DP champions Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty in the No. 99 Gainsco/Bob Stallings Pontiac Riley. Eight cautions for 37 laps were caused primarily by rain, which fell for the majority of the race.
Nic Jönsson, starting driver of the No. 76 Krohn Racing Pontiac Lola, led the Mid-Ohio race for three laps (lap 34-36), all under rainy conditions. It was the first time the new Proto-Auto Lolas have seen rain this season, so all the Krohn drivers had to learn how the car handled under wet conditions and with rain tires. In addition to leading the race, Jönsson also had the team's best qualifying position of the season, a fifth place start. He and teammate Ricardo Zonta finished ninth overall.
The No. 75 Krohn Racing Pontiac Lola of owner/driver Tracy Krohn and Eric van de Poele qualified 13th and got as high as third place early in the race before and penalty and brief off-road excursion relegated them to a 14th (DP class) finish. Everyone was challenged by the rain and the two and three-quarters hour Grand-Am race finished under yellow flag conditions following a multi-car wreck on the front straight.
Tracy W. Krohn, team owner/driver, No. 75 Krohn Racing Pontiac Lola:
'I got in for my stint with brand new wet tires. It was very slippery. What I thought was a bad call turned out to be a mistake on our part. We pitted under the wrong set of conditions. We thought we had pitted after the window but we didn't get that timing right and it cost us a drive-thru penalty plus 20 seconds. Eric did a great job the first part of the race. We tried a little different strategy with the car at first and we put some rain tires on just prior to the start of the race. We were hoping it was going to rain a little quicker than it did. It didn't rain quite quick enough. It took about four laps instead of two or three. As it was, the strategy worked out okay and we actually moved up a couple of position, but we had thought we would end up being first. Eric got hung up by some GT cars. He ran a really solid, solid race. He had one little mishap but no big deal. He came back and turned car over to me. I went out with that set up and pushed hard and ran the thing off the track. At that point in time I was just hanging on. It was very treacherous. I took the drive-through penalty. It was unfortunate for me because I was right up there with the pack and just trying to learn the track rain line. I started to push immediately and just made a mistake and went off track.
The bottom line is we learned a lot about the car. This is the first time we've run in the rain. We learned some of the strengths and weaknesses of the car and some things we need to work on. All in all, it was not a horrible day, but not the day we expected. Nic and Ricardo ran up front for a good while. They also had a little strategy issue but it wasn't because of what they were doing. They did a great job and car was good and it just continues to get better. It really does continue to get better but the performance doesn't show it yet. With the rain, Mid-Ohio is a different kind of track, very treacherous. It's really very technical anyway. You add a little rain and it just gets exciting. The fans got a show today!'
Eric van de Poele, driver, No. 75 Krohn Racing Pontiac Lola:
'It was interesting in the rain for the first time. We did not have the best set-up and it was really tough, quite difficult. However, I really like the rain conditions. I got the car up to third. Even if I spun a few times, like everybody, I had a lot of fun. But, unfortunately we did not have the finish position we wanted. It's a bit disappointing, but in another way, we are there. We were third at one point, so it means we can compete. We still a need a better car for any conditions, but we closed the gap. We definitely closed the gap.'
Nic Jönsson, driver, No. 76 Krohn Racing Pontiac Lola:
'Qualifying was the best qualifying so far this year, so we're very pleased with that. We had a threat of rain all day but it didn't start to rain until several laps into the race. But beforehand, we had to sort out what we were going to do with tires and all that. We knew the rain was coming, so basically we decided to go with high down force for the race. We started the race with a huge push in the car. It started raining pretty bad and this is the first time we had to drive it in the rain, so we didn't know what to expect. It was extremely difficult to drive in the rain. You had to be very careful with throttle application. I found out the hard way when I spun in Turn 1 a few laps in. Fortunately I was able to get those lost positions back.
We were pretty much running second most of the stint. Unfortunately, we decided to pit too late. We went from second down to 16th. Ricardo got in and, obviously, also had never driven the car in rain before. Once he got dialed in and got going, he started gaining on people. Then the track started to dry out. We then picked up a huge push and, unfortunately, could not keep the pace. The race ended three laps early when there was a big wreck on the front straightaway. I think if that had not happened we could have gotten a few more positions, maybe in the Top 7. We are still having a little struggle to get the car the way we want. We just have to keep our head down and keep plugging away and sooner or later things will turn around for us. We have all the ingredients - a good crew, good engineering experience, a very good package overall. We just need to put all those cards in the right place to make it work as one unit. We are all experienced enough and been there before so we have to keep working hard. We will keep working on trying to get it right and we will. We will.'
Ricardo Zonta, driver, No. 76 Krohn Racing Pontiac Lola:
'I think the only race we could talk is about Nic's race because it was very good. He did a very good job. We lost the race in the pits. As soon as we pitted late, we lost the race. There's not much to say. I had to learn the car in the rain like everyone. This point doesn't matter because we were the same speed in the rain. After we got behind we could not do anything. We lost the race there.'Source - Krohn Racing
Nic Jönsson, starting driver of the No. 76 Krohn Racing Pontiac Lola, led the Mid-Ohio race for three laps (lap 34-36), all under rainy conditions. It was the first time the new Proto-Auto Lolas have seen rain this season, so all the Krohn drivers had to learn how the car handled under wet conditions and with rain tires. In addition to leading the race, Jönsson also had the team's best qualifying position of the season, a fifth place start. He and teammate Ricardo Zonta finished ninth overall.
The No. 75 Krohn Racing Pontiac Lola of owner/driver Tracy Krohn and Eric van de Poele qualified 13th and got as high as third place early in the race before and penalty and brief off-road excursion relegated them to a 14th (DP class) finish. Everyone was challenged by the rain and the two and three-quarters hour Grand-Am race finished under yellow flag conditions following a multi-car wreck on the front straight.
Tracy W. Krohn, team owner/driver, No. 75 Krohn Racing Pontiac Lola:
'I got in for my stint with brand new wet tires. It was very slippery. What I thought was a bad call turned out to be a mistake on our part. We pitted under the wrong set of conditions. We thought we had pitted after the window but we didn't get that timing right and it cost us a drive-thru penalty plus 20 seconds. Eric did a great job the first part of the race. We tried a little different strategy with the car at first and we put some rain tires on just prior to the start of the race. We were hoping it was going to rain a little quicker than it did. It didn't rain quite quick enough. It took about four laps instead of two or three. As it was, the strategy worked out okay and we actually moved up a couple of position, but we had thought we would end up being first. Eric got hung up by some GT cars. He ran a really solid, solid race. He had one little mishap but no big deal. He came back and turned car over to me. I went out with that set up and pushed hard and ran the thing off the track. At that point in time I was just hanging on. It was very treacherous. I took the drive-through penalty. It was unfortunate for me because I was right up there with the pack and just trying to learn the track rain line. I started to push immediately and just made a mistake and went off track.
The bottom line is we learned a lot about the car. This is the first time we've run in the rain. We learned some of the strengths and weaknesses of the car and some things we need to work on. All in all, it was not a horrible day, but not the day we expected. Nic and Ricardo ran up front for a good while. They also had a little strategy issue but it wasn't because of what they were doing. They did a great job and car was good and it just continues to get better. It really does continue to get better but the performance doesn't show it yet. With the rain, Mid-Ohio is a different kind of track, very treacherous. It's really very technical anyway. You add a little rain and it just gets exciting. The fans got a show today!'
Eric van de Poele, driver, No. 75 Krohn Racing Pontiac Lola:
'It was interesting in the rain for the first time. We did not have the best set-up and it was really tough, quite difficult. However, I really like the rain conditions. I got the car up to third. Even if I spun a few times, like everybody, I had a lot of fun. But, unfortunately we did not have the finish position we wanted. It's a bit disappointing, but in another way, we are there. We were third at one point, so it means we can compete. We still a need a better car for any conditions, but we closed the gap. We definitely closed the gap.'
Nic Jönsson, driver, No. 76 Krohn Racing Pontiac Lola:
'Qualifying was the best qualifying so far this year, so we're very pleased with that. We had a threat of rain all day but it didn't start to rain until several laps into the race. But beforehand, we had to sort out what we were going to do with tires and all that. We knew the rain was coming, so basically we decided to go with high down force for the race. We started the race with a huge push in the car. It started raining pretty bad and this is the first time we had to drive it in the rain, so we didn't know what to expect. It was extremely difficult to drive in the rain. You had to be very careful with throttle application. I found out the hard way when I spun in Turn 1 a few laps in. Fortunately I was able to get those lost positions back.
We were pretty much running second most of the stint. Unfortunately, we decided to pit too late. We went from second down to 16th. Ricardo got in and, obviously, also had never driven the car in rain before. Once he got dialed in and got going, he started gaining on people. Then the track started to dry out. We then picked up a huge push and, unfortunately, could not keep the pace. The race ended three laps early when there was a big wreck on the front straightaway. I think if that had not happened we could have gotten a few more positions, maybe in the Top 7. We are still having a little struggle to get the car the way we want. We just have to keep our head down and keep plugging away and sooner or later things will turn around for us. We have all the ingredients - a good crew, good engineering experience, a very good package overall. We just need to put all those cards in the right place to make it work as one unit. We are all experienced enough and been there before so we have to keep working hard. We will keep working on trying to get it right and we will. We will.'
Ricardo Zonta, driver, No. 76 Krohn Racing Pontiac Lola:
'I think the only race we could talk is about Nic's race because it was very good. He did a very good job. We lost the race in the pits. As soon as we pitted late, we lost the race. There's not much to say. I had to learn the car in the rain like everyone. This point doesn't matter because we were the same speed in the rain. After we got behind we could not do anything. We lost the race there.'Source - Krohn Racing
| Grand-Am Daytona PrototypesEstablished in 1999, the Grand American Road Racing Association was brought about to return some sense of stability to major league sports car road racing in the states. The Grand-Am is regarded worldwide as the most competitive road racing organizations. 2008 marks the ninth season of competition for the Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series. Intentions were announced in 1999 by the all-new Grand American Road Racing Association to adopt a format that was similar to the one used in the SRRC, centering around the 24 Hours of Daytona. This new series was an alternative option to the earlier IMSA GT Championship which had since been replaced by the American Le Mans Series in 1999. The premiere series run by the Grand American Road Racing Association, the Rolex Sports Car Series is a North American-based sports car series founded in 2000 to replace the unsuccessful U.S. Road Racing Championship. Located in Daytona Beach, Florida, the Grand-Am is located on the same campus as NASCAR, Daytona International Speedway, and ISC. Grand-Am offers a completely different product that features extremely competitive sports car racing on both historic and street circuits and in major market speedways throughout the U.S. Facing many tough and unpredictable times during the 90's, sports car racing in North America went through a lot. Uncontrolled technology and all of the costs that came with it were the majority of the problems. Fortunately Grand-Am addressed these problems head on and mandated affordable rules with a ‘firm commitment to a level playing field'. Two classes of Sports Racing Prototypes would be run with the new series, these classes would be identical to the rules used in the new FIA Sportscar Championship in Europe. Grand Touring-style vehicles would be classified in three classes, GTO; for larger production-based race cars, GTU; for smaller production-based race cars, and AGT; for American tube frame vehicles. For 2001, GTO and GTU would be renamed GTS and GT to better match the classes that were used by the very similar American Le Mans Series. In 2002 Rolex took over as series sponsor. Through the years, the series has run with a mixture of classes of Sports Racing Prototypes and Grand Touring-style vehicles. Daytona Prototypes were introduced in 2003, their custom prototype chassis that was named after their signature event, the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The series went through a very radical intense change in 2005 at Laguna Seca2003 as Daytona Prototypes were introduced for the first time with the intention to replace both of the Sports Racing Prototype classes. The American GT class was deleted as cars were now being placed into the very similar GTS class. The GT class was ranked on the top tier as the faster GTS was deleted in 2004 in order to make a larger gap in between the Daytona Prototypes and GT cars. The GT class was now joined by the Super Grand Sport class that was moved up from the Grand Am Cup series. Today these two classes are DP and GT in the Rolex Sports Car Series. GT and DP races had to be split at Grand-Am into shorter tracks, in places where it wasn't possible to put 50 cars on the track at one time. The GT car races would occur on Saturdays, while the DP car races were held on Sundays. This split format allowed drivers to run in both races. The races were the same distance, and it was just as if the races were held at the same time. When the two races are combined, the two classes use a motorcycle racing-style ‘wave-start'. The DP cars take the green flag first, and 20-30 seconds later the GT cars followed. The organizers who set this up hoped for a much safer start by having the two classes starting separately. In 2008 the Grand Am began its ninth season of competition. Rolex is one of the world's most recognizable names in history, long known for its quality and reliability. Rolex Watch USA has been the title sponsor of Grand-Am's premier series for six years. Rolex is now synonymous with legendary events worldwide. The Rolex Series Daytona Prototype category has established itself as the most competitive professional road racing championship in America, and has attracted the attention of both superstar drivers and universally recognized teams worldwide. The Rolex Series GT class has done the same for high-performance, production-based sports car racing that the Daytona Prototype class has done to redefine prototype sports car racing. The Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series was presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 in 2008. Every year Rolex Series drivers compete for the highly prestigious, specially engaged steel and gold Daytona Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Rolex watch. ----------------------------------------------- The Grand American Road Racing Association was established in 1999 to return stability to major league sports car road racing in North America. As the organization begins its ninth season of competition in 2008, Grand-Am is universally regarded as one of the world's most competitive road racing organizations. Grand-Am is located in Daytona Beach, Fla. on the same corporate campus that is also home to NASCAR, International Speedway Corporation (ISC) and Daytona International Speedway, but operates as its own stand-alone corporation with a group of independent investors and its own board of advisors. Among the company's investors are several of the key people behind NASCAR's success, but Grand-Am offers an entirely different product that features extremely competitive sports car racing on historic road and street circuits and in major market speedways throughout North America. Sports car racing in North America endured tough and uncertain times for the majority of the 1990s, a far cry from the successful IMSA series of the 1970s and '80s. As is often the case in motor racing, sports car racing's decline during this period could basically be traced to uncontrolled technology and its related costs. Grand-Am has addressed this with sensible and affordable rules that are competition driven but grounded in common sense and stability with a firm commitment to a level playing field. Grand-Am's top-tier Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask #16--which begins its ninth season of competition in 2008--has established itself as the most competitive professional road racing championship in North America. The Rolex Series Daytona Prototype category has attracted the attention of superstar drivers and universally-recognized teams through its extremely raceable and relatively affordable format, and has revolutionized sports car racing with plentiful battles at the front of the field and close finishes in virtually every race. Grand-Am races at some of the world's most prestigious venues--Daytona, Montreal, Mexico City and Watkins Glen--and has taken the role of a top annual attraction at some of the newest venues in the industry such as Miller Motorsports Park, Barber Motorsports Park and Virginia International Raceway. Grand-Am is also making a standard out of the newest form of circuit racing--'Stadium Road Racing'--on the road course layouts at tracks like Homestead-Miami Speedway. |
2008 Lola B08/70 Krohn Racing Prototype |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Make | Lola |
| Model | B08/70 Krohn Racing Prototype |
| Engine Location | Mid |
| Drive Type | Rear Wheel |
| Body / Chassis | Hybrid Steel-Aluminum Chassis |
| Weight | 2275 lbs | 1031.9 kg |
| Combined MPG | 0.00 |
| Engine | |
| Engine Builder | Pontiac |
| Engine Configuration | V |
| Cylinders | 8 |
| Engine | CRD built Pontiac; Single roller camshaft, two valves per cylinder |
| Aspiration/Induction | Normal |
| Valvetrain | DOHC |
| Horsepower | 500.00 BHP (368 KW) @ 7100.00 RPM |
| HP to Weight Ratio | 4.6 LB / HP (Vehicles with similar ratio) |
| Engine Electronics | Bosch MS 4.3 Motronic engine management system |
| Fuel Type | Gasoline - Petrol |
| Fuel Feed | Fuel Injected |
| Block | Aluminum |
| Head | Aluminum |
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| Standard Transmission | |
| Gears | 5 |
| Transmission | Sequential |
| Clutch | 5.5-inch Diameter multi-disc |
| Xtrac 386 | |
| Dimensions | |
| Standard Payload | 0.00 |
| Fuel Capacity | 24.0 Gal |
| Seating Capacity | 1 |
| Exterior | |
| Length | 179.001 in | 4546.6 mm. |
| Width | 78.501 in | 1993.9 mm. |
| Height | 41.501 in | 1054.1 mm. |
| Suspension | |
| Suspension | Twin wishbones and pushrods operating rockers and coilover spring damper units |
| Tires / Wheels | |
| Tires | Pirelli |
| Wheels | BBS 3 piece |
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