Michael Krumm

Michael Krumm is one of those quietly remarkable figures in motorsport who built an entire legend in a country not his own. Born in Reutlingen in southern Germany, he made Japan his second home and absolutely thrived there — winning the All-Japan GT Championship's GT500 class in 1997 with TOM'S and then again in 2003 with Nismo, which is honestly an impressive arc across two of the sport's top outfits. Plenty of European drivers dabbled in Japanese motorsport, but Krumm genuinely embedded himself in it for decades. The FIA GT1 World Championship title in 2011 added some international silverware to a resume that's richer than most casual fans realize. These days he's the team manager at TOM'S, so the passion clearly never faded — he just shifted from driving to shaping the next generation of Japanese GT racing.

Name (English)

Michael Krumm

Name (Japanese)

ミハエル・クルム

Reading

みはえる・くるむ

Born

March 19, 1970 (age 56)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

Origin

Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Occupation

racing automobile driver

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.michaelkrumm.com
• Xhttps://x.com/MichaelKrumm
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A0

Tags

• Baden-Württemberg
• racing automobile driver

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.