Driver Facts
| Michael Kramer, operations director of the EDS/GM Spring Hill Media Center joined the EDS/Saturn account in August of 1993.Currently, Mr. Kramer leads a team of communication’s specialists responsible for internal television production and programming at the General Motors manufacturing facility in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
Prior to joining the EDS/Saturn Media Center, Mr. Kramer managed the EDS Motorsports Group in Troy, MI. A sports-marketing role, he managed a small team of marketing and systems engineering personnel supporting EDS marketing properties in the arena of automobile racing. Prior to joining EDS, Mr. Kramer pursued an award-winning career in broadcast and corporate television and communications. He has a wide range of experience as a field producer, reporter, writer, director and producer for; ESPN — Bristol, CT and Indianapolis, IN; CNN/Detroit Bureau — Detroit, MI; and MVP Communications — Troy, MI. In 1989, he received an Emmy nomination for his technical support of remote camera technology and real-time vehicle data display for ESPN’s “Thursday Night Thunder – The Corvette Challenge” motor racing anthology series. In addition, Mr. Kramer has worked as a professional race car driver, instructor and test driver for Powell Motorsports, Inc., of Blackstock, Ontario, Canada. He has instructed and consulted with the Michigan and Indiana State Police, the Ontario Provincial Police, the Tennessee Department of Safety and the Saturn Safe Driving Committee. Currently, Mr. Kramer drives the Kumho Tires- sponsored Saturn Red Line ION in the Sports Car Club of America’s (SCCA) National Road Racing Championship series. Mr. Kramer is a five-time SCCA Division Champion (1998, 1999, 2001, 2003 & 2007) and was named the Tennessee Road Racer of the Year in 1998, 1999, and 2001. Mr. Kramer is the 2003 SCCA National Champion in Showroom Stock C, is a three-time SCCA Runoff Medallist and has driven racecars for Team Saturn entries in Car & Driver’s One Lap of America. Mr. Kramer lives in Lewisburg, Tennessee where he enjoys spending time with his wife Amber and his three sons; Alex, Joey and Jackson. |
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