Lori's cauldron

Lori's cauldron

Nation:	Switzerland
Automobile world championship
First start:	Belgian Grand Prix 1976
Last start:	Grand Prix of Austria 1976
Constructors
1976  RAM
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 3 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Loris Kessel (born April 1, 1950 in Lugano ; † May 15, 2010 in Montagnola , Canton Ticino ) was a Swiss automobile racing driver . In 1976 and 1977 he was registered for a total of six Formula 1 races, but was only able to qualify three times.

Career

In the 1976 season Kessel was to take part in five Grand Prix for the British team RAM Racing , but qualified for only three. His only finish was twelfth place in the Belgian Grand Prix on the Circuit Zolder . The emergency vehicle was a Brabham BT44, which RAM had obtained as a customer car.

In 1977 Kessel entered the Italian Grand Prix with an Apollon-Williams FW03  - a modified Williams FW03  - but failed to qualify for the race. Races at the Grand Prix of Belgium, France, Austria and the Netherlands had already been planned, which had to be canceled each time due to difficulties in transporting the vehicle. Kessel's last participation in a Formula 1 weekend was in the Apollon.

After his short Formula 1 career, Kessel occasionally took part in rallies and hill climbs. When he took part in the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1993 , he finished seventh in the overall standings in a Porsche 962 .

Most recently, Loris Kessel ran a car dealership in his hometown of Lugano and was the owner of the “Loris Kessel Racing Car” team founded in 2000, with which he took part in the Ferrari Challenge and the FIA GT3 European Championship.

On May 15, 2010, Loris Kessel died of leukemia.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .

Single results

year	team	dare	engine	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	WM	Points
1976	RAM Racing	Brabham BT44B	Ford - Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	BRA	RSA	ETC	ESP DNQ	BEL 12	MON	SWE DNF	FRA DNQ	GBR	GER	AUT NC	NED	ITA	CAN	United States	JPN		36.	0
1977	Jolly Club of Switzerland	Apollon-Williams FW03	Ford - Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	ARG	BRA	RSA	ETC	ESP	MON	BEL DNA	SWE	FRA DNA	GBR	GER	AUT DNA	NED DNA	ITA DNQ	United States	CAN	JPN	-	0

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1993	Obermaier Racing GmbH	Porsche 962C	Otto Altenbach	Jürgen Oppermann	Rank 7

Web links

Commons : Loris Kessel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Kessel Racing  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Loris Kessel Auto (Italian)
• Image: Loris Kessel

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ticino ex-Formula 1 driver Loris Kessel died of leukemia. Retrieved May 16, 2010 .