Nicolas Kiesa

Nicolas Kiesa

Nation:	Denmark
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	Grand Prix of Germany 2003
Last start:	2003 Japanese Grand Prix
Constructors
2003  Minardi
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-23. ( 2003 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 5 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Nicolas Kiesa (born March 3, 1978 in Copenhagen ) is a former Danish automobile racing driver .

Career

In 1990 and 1991 he became Danish kart champion. In 1992 he won second place in the Kart World Championship. 1993 drove in the European Kart Championship and the Danish Kart Championship, in which he was runner-up. In 1994 he drove in the European Kart Championship. In 1994 and 1995 Kiesa was the winner of the Viking Kart Trophy, in 1996 Danish kart champion, Scandinavian kart champion, runner-up in the world kart championship and fourth in the European kart championship.

In 1998 he immediately finished third in the British Formula Ford Championship and the Formula Ford Festival. In 1999 Nicolas Kiesa became British Formula Ford Champion, third in the Formula Ford European Championship and fourth in the Formula Ford Festival. In 2000 he finished sixth in the British Formula Ford Championship. In 2001 he drove in the British and German Formula 3 championships. In 2002 he was twelfth in Formula 3000 . In 2003 he drove in Formula 3000, won the race in Monaco and had five outings in Formula 1 at Minardi . In 2004 he was a driver of a Formula 1 two-seater.

In 2005 he was a Formula 1 test driver at the Jordan Grand Prix . In 2006 he finished third in the GT1 class at the Sebring 12-hour race and drove for Audi in the DTM . Kiesa lives in Hemel Hempstead and Zurich . With the end of the 2007 season, he ended his driving career.

statistics

Career stations

1990-1997: karting 1998: British Formula Ford (3rd place) 1999: British Formula Ford (champions)

2000: British Formula 3 (3rd place) 2001: British Formula 3 2002: Formula 3000 (12th place)

2003: Formula 3000 2003 : Formula 1 (23rd place) 2005 : Formula 1 (test driver)

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
2003	Minardi F1 team	Minardi PS03	Ford Cosworth 3.0 V10	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	23.
total				5	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
2003
												12	13	12	11	16

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
2006	Lister Storm Racing	Lister Storm LMP Hybrid	Gavin Pickering	Jens Møller	failure	accident

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2006	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin DBR9	Tomáš Enge	Darren Turner	Rank 6

Web links

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