Jari Kekkonen

Jari Kekkonen (born February 27, 1993 in Espoo, Finland) is a Finnish racing driver known for his career in the F1RWRS.

F1RWRS Career

Kekkonen started off in the mid-season tirade at ArrowTech ART. There, he had middling results, but a fifth at Surfers Paradise unrejectified himself. He finished 25th in the championship. In the 2012 season, usually Kekkonen was stuck in Pre-Qualifying, but scored points to make up for this. Despite this, Kekkonen said many times during the season that he was unpleased with his preformance from the team and left at the end of the season. Kekkonen joined up with Red Bull Team Phoenix. He didn't score a point before being sacked for pay-driver Ron Mignolet. After a brief stint at MRT as third driver, Kekkonen replaced Dave McFaste at FAT Turbo.

Kekkonen had a contract with WilliamsF1 for the 2014 season in F1. Needless to say, it didn't go so well, and Jari found out that the F1RWRS was infinitely better. He was signed to a reserve role with Boxtel after Boxtel determined that Nathanael Spencer was mostly useless. He raced for the team for the Mexican, USA and Canadian Grand Prixs, scoring a confident eighth place in Mexico and helping Boxtel out of pre-qualifying in the process. His next two races were subpar; his slow pace caused Boxtel to DNPQ in Long Beach and he failed to qualify for the Canadian Grand Prix despite making it through pre-qualifying (with the help of Andrea Battani). Through the rest of the season, Kekkonen scored three points with Boxtel in the 2015 season, including a fifth place finish at the finale in Brazil, on his way to coming back into the F1RWRS scene.

However, it wasn't to be for Kekkonen. The 2016 season for Boxtel was disastrous, as the car was slow, the team was running out of money, and they were also running out of luck as well. Boxtel was mired in Pre-Qualifying for a good half of the season before escaping from it at the Monaco GP, but their pace during the race did not improve. Kekkonen was let go from Boxtel before the end of the season due to sponsorship reasons, and Kekkonen quickly signed a deal with Voeckler in the AutoReject US series, as well as becoming the Voeckler GPE reserve driver.

F1RWRS Results

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	Pts
2011	ArrowTech ART	ArrowTech AT-01	Cosworth CR-6 3.0 V10	BAV	GER	SAX	LUX	BEL	GBR 9	ENG 14	KEN 16	NED DNPQ	TAS 12	AUS DNPQ	NSW 6	SUR 5	CHN DNPQ	USA DNPQ				25th	7
2012	ArrowTech ART	ArrowTech AT-02	Lamborghini V10	BAV DNPQ	SAX 7	GER DNPQ	LUX Ret	BEL 8	NED DNPQ	GBR DNPQ	KEN 6	ENG DNPQ	TAS 16	SUR 18	NSW 25	AUS 8	CHN 20	USA 20	500 14			=23rd	7
2013	Red Bull Team Phoenix	Phoenix TP03	Audi EA389/1	TAS Ret	AUS Ret	MEX 8	USA 11	MON Ret	FRA Ret	GBR 10	GER	NED	BEL	POR	MED	MAC	CHN					NC	0
	FAT Turbo Racing	FAT01	Hart 415T															JPN DNPQ	BRA Ret
2015	Boxtel Engineering	Boxtel BOX-015	Ford HBD VI	TAS	AUS	MED	MON	MEX 8	USA DNPQ	CAN DNQ	GBR 9	GER Ret	BEL 6	AUT 9	ITA DNPQ	NDS DNPQ	CHN DNPQ	JPN Ret	BRA 5			20th	3
2016	Boxtel Engineering	Boxtel BOX-016	Ford XR8B	AUS 11	NSW 15	GBR 10	ITA 10	AUT DNPQ	CAN 8	SUS DNPQ	NUS DNPQ	GER DNPQ	NSE 7	MON DNPQ	BEL Ret	MEX 11	ARG Ret	CHN 10	JPN			26th	0
2018	Union Saver Developments	USD KS-01	Daihatsu Zeetec-R2	AUS DNPQ	NSW 16	ITA Ret	MAR 13†	CAL DNQ	USA DNQ	CAN 18	GBR Ret											41st	0
	Rob Lomas Racing	Lomas RLR-P03	Audi AF1-5									AUT DNPQ	GER Ret	SCA DNQ	BEL 11	MON DNPQ	RSA DNQ	BRA DNQ	ARG DNPQ	JPN 13†	CHN DNPQ