Jari Kekkonen

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Jari Kekkonen
Nationality Flag of Finland svg.png Finnish
Born 27 February 1993
Espoo, Finland
Former Teams ArrowTech ART
Team Phoenix
FAT Turbo Racing
Races 59 (39 starts)
Championships 0
Victories 0
Podiums 0
Points 17
Pole Positions 0
Fastest Laps 0
First Race 2011 F1RWRS British Grand Prix
First Victory N/A
Last Victory N/A
Last Race 2016 F1RWRS Belgian Grand Prix
Best Finish 20th (2015)


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 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 DC Pts
2011 ArrowTech ART 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 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 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 JPN
DNPQ
BRA
Ret
2015 Boxtel Engineering 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 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 NC 0