Costa's lot

Costas Los (born January 31, 1955 ) is a former Greek automobile racing driver .

Career in motorsport

Los was known as a sports car driver in the 1980s and 1990s and was the first Greek to take part in the Le Mans 24-hour race as a driver . In 1983 he came to the UK to race. In 1984 he received a contract with Lyncar Motorsport and drove a few races to the World Sports Car Championship with John Nicholson . However, the concept of the Lyncar MS83 was unsuccessful. In 1986 he made his debut at Le Mans, where finishing ninth overall in 1987 was his best result.

Los competed in sports car races until 1993 and then retired from racing.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1986	Cosmik Racing Promotions	March 84G	Raymond Touroul	Neil Crang	Disqualified
1987	Cosmik GP Motorsport	Tiga GC287	Dudley Wood	Tom Hessert	Rank 9
1988	Cosmik GP Motorsport	Spice SE87C	Wayne Taylor	Evan Clements	failure	Clutch damage
1989	Aston Martin	Aston Martin AMR1	Brian Redman	Michael Roe	Rank 11
1990	Courage Compétition	Nissan R89C	Alain Cudini	Hervé Regout	Rank 22
1993	Stéphane Ratel	Venturi 500LM	Claude Brana	Johannes Badrutt	failure	accident

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1986	Roy Baker Promotions	Tiga GC285	Dudley Wood		failure	malfunction
1989	Spice Engineering USA	Spice SE89P Pontiac Firebird GTP	Jeff Kline		Rank 11
1991	Essex Racing	Kudzu DG-1	Tom Hessert		failure	Engine failure
1992	Comptech Racing	Spice SE90P	Ruggero Melgrati	Parker Johnstone	failure	Engine failure

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissedre: 24 hours of mans . 1923-1992. 2 volumes. Édition d'Art JB Barthelemy, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

• Costa's lot at Racing Sports Cars