Kessel was an F1 Reject: he participated in six races in 1976 and 1977, driving privately entered Brabham and Williams chassis. His best result was 12th at the 1976 Belgian Grand Prix.
"One day Bruno told me that he had heard the engine momentarily making a strange sound; his suspicion was that all the cylinders had been operating." --Nigel Roebuck
RIP Loris Kessel. You forgot to mention his efforts running his own team: the awesomely named Apollon Fly, which was based on a 3-year old Williams, and was rejectfully slow.
I have a listing of F1 drivers who are still alive (from Paul Pietsch to Jaime Alguersuari) and Loris Kessel was somewhere around the middle in terms of age.
My parents have seen him race in F1 back in the 70s and remember him fondly from the paddock.
"I don't think we should be used to finance (the manufacturers') R&D because they will produce that engine anyway" said Monisha Kaltenborn. "You will never see a Mercedes using a Ferrari engine or the other way round."
Kessel racing is the officious ferrari works team for the GT3 category (at least they prepare the cars, they don't always race them) but could well be that they're doing the challenge-ferraris to. Would certainly not be unlogical.
A driver who has the courage to build his own car based on an pretty old williams, respect!
