(1957-11-27) 27 November 1957 (age 66) Cookstown, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality
British
Active years
1983, 1985
Teams
RAM
Entries
10 (3 starts)
Championships
0
Wins
0
Podiums
0
Career points
0
Pole positions
0
Fastest laps
0
First entry
1983 British Grand Prix
Last entry
1985 Italian Grand Prix
Kenneth Henry Acheson (born 27 November 1957) is a British former racing driver from Northern Ireland who competed for RAM Racing in the 1983 and 1985 Formula One seasons. He completed only one of his three race starts, finishing in 12th position in the 1983 South African Grand Prix. In 1985, he was a substitute for Manfred Winkelhock, who was killed in a sportscar race during the season.
ISBN 0851127029. "KennyAcheson – 1984 CART Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 17 August 2023. "All Results of KennyAcheson". racingsportscars...
season, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans. During qualifying, the Baldi/Acheson/Brancatelli C9 recorded a speed of 400 km/h (248 mph) on the Mulsanne Straight...
driver Jacques Villeneuve, Sr. and attracting some Canadian sponsorship. KennyAcheson then took over for the rest of the season, only qualifying once, at...
Budweiser 1000 km World Sportscar Championship event. Ex-RAM driver KennyAcheson fell in for three races before the team folded. Stefan Bellof was also...
expected to return to the RAM in place of Villeneuve, British driver KennyAcheson was hired instead. He performed well enough to retain the seat for the...
at Paul Ricard. His death saw him replaced by Northern Irish driver KennyAcheson, though lack of money saw the team fold before the end of the 1985 season...
Mans in the team's Jaguar XJR-12-Jaguar 7.4L V12 with Bob Wollek and KennyAcheson for the C2 class. In the race the car started twenty-seventh and finished...
the first three R90CK chassis were completed with Northern Ireland's KennyAcheson and Brits Julian Bailey and Mark Blundell joining Italian Gianfranco...
known, never reached production. In 1997, former motorcycle world champion Kenny Roberts formed his own racing team and manufactured a motorcycle. Basing...
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Sauber Mercedes, co-driving with ex-Formula One drivers Mauro Baldi and KennyAcheson. His four other races at Le Mans (1979, 1980, 1986 and 1990) all saw...
Eliseo Salazar, Jean-Louis Schlesser, Jacques Villeneuve, Sr., and KennyAcheson, the team only managed to qualify twice, in the first and last races...
race in Canada just a week before. His place was taken in the team by KennyAcheson for his first Formula One race since the 1983 South African Grand Prix...
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