🇯🇵 Niklas Krütten

Niklas Krütten is an established professional racing in single-seater and GT endurance championships across Europe and Asia. He competed in ADAC Formula 4 and Italian F4 between 2018 and 2019 for Van Amersfoort Racing, then moved into GT racing, driving BMW M4 GT3s and Ferrari machinery in ADAC GT Masters, GT World Challenge Europe and the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie. He currently races a Ferrari 296 GT3 for Velorex in Super GT, where he has taken one podium from four rounds so far in 2026.[1]

His early career in single-seaters brought two wins in ADAC Formula 4 and four podiums across Italian F4, placing him among the front-runners in a field mixing amateurs with graded professionals. After a four-year absence from indexed racing, he moved into shared-car endurance racing in 2021 and found his footing in ADAC GT Masters, where he scored two wins and podiums in 2022 for Schubert Motorsport. That campaign led to a move to GT World Challenge Europe the following year; he finished the season in the Gold Cup classification, though with only one podium from thirteen starts. His step up to Super GT, the highest-profile series in his record, has brought one podium finish to date.[2]

The fields he has raced in include Liam Lawson, an elite professional then rising through Formula 3 towards Formula 2 and Formula 1, and Nico Müller, an established professional with DTM and Formula E experience. Against Lawson, who was a significantly stronger driver in their shared years, Krütten finished ahead seven times; against Müller he took one result. His most regular rivals have been Gianluca Petecof, a Gold-graded professional, whom he typically trailed, and Ido Cohen, an entry-level professional whom he more often beat.