Jeff Krosnoff

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Jeff Krosnoff

Nationality	American
Active years	1996
Team(s)	Arciero-Wells Racing (1996)
Race starts	11
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Pole positions	0
First Champ Car race	1996 Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami (Homestead)
First win	-
Last win	-
Last Champ Car race	1996 Molson Indy Toronto

Jeff Krosnoff (September 24, 1964 - July 14, 1996) was an American race car driver. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but grew up in La Cañada, California.

Apart from Japanese Formula 3000, where he was active from 1989 to 1995, Krosnoff also competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans several times, scoring 2nd in 1994 24 Hours of Le Mans, replacing the late Roland Ratzenberger.

In the 1996 season, he made eleven starts in CART (now Champ Car), driving a Reynard-Toyota for Arciero-Wells Racing. Krosnoff died from injuries sustained in an accident with 3 laps to go in the 1996 Molson Indy Toronto at Exhibition Place. Krosnoff's car made wheel-to-wheel contact with the car of Stefan Johansson, sending it into the air, over a concrete barrier, into the catch fencing lining the street course and into a tree and light pole too close to the track. The violence of the accident left the car broken in half and sent the cockpit section back across the track. Even though the paramedics were there almost immediately, Krosnoff had already died after he had struck the light pole. A track employee named Gary Avrin was also killed in the accident when he was struck by debris from Krosnoff's then-airborne car. Krosnoff was 31 years old when he died.

[edit] External link

• Jeff Krosnoff Scholarship Fund