Loris Kessel

Loris Kessel, a Swiss driver born in 1950, made three World Championship starts, all during the 1976 season, driving a Brabham-Ford. He was twenty-six years old during his brief spell at the top level.

His three outings in customer Brabham machinery produced no championship points, and he was not classified in the final drivers' standings.

Kessel's Formula 1 career began and ended within that single 1976 campaign, a short chapter typical of the many privateer efforts that populated the grids of the mid-1970s.