Tomas Kaiser

Tomas Kaiser (born 2 December 1956) is a Swedish former racing driver from Saelen.

Kaiser began his career racing Formula Fords. In 1979 he raced in the European Formula Three Championship and British Formula Three Championship. In 1980 he finished fourth in the Swedish Formula Three Championship and competed in 1 race each in the British, European, and German F3 series. In 1981 he finished third in Swedish F3 and maintained a similar part-time schedule in the other series. In 1982 he made two starts in the European Formula Two Championship. In 1983 he drove in 8 of the 12 European F2 races but was only running at the finish in two of them. In 1984 he competed in 9 European F2 races and finished 11th in points, finishing in the points in fourth in the season finale at Brands Hatch. In 1985 European F2 gave way to International Formula 3000 and Kaiser competed in 7 races and finished 4th at Thruxton Circuit, good enough for 14th in points. In 1986 he competed in all 11 races for BS Automotive and finished 14th in points with a best finish of 4th at Pergusa. 1987 was his last season of professional racing as he competed in a full season of F3000 but failed to qualify for three races and didn't finish in the points in any races.

Alongside his driving career, Kaiser created Hello Sweden, a support and development program for emergent Swedish racing drivers. Prominent drivers such as Thomas Danielsson, Kenny Bräck, Björn Wirdheim and Sebastian Hohenthal were some of the recipients of this support.

In 1986 and early 1987, Kaiser had negotiations with Brabham and Arrows to become a Formula 1 driver in the 1987 season. He was very close to signing for Brabham to race alongside Riccardo Patrese but he was denied a Superlicence.

Kaiser was mentored by James Hunt throughout his Formula 3000 career.

As of 2022, Kaiser still acts as a tutor, manager and consultant for young racing drivers.

Racing record

Complete European Formula Two Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Pos.	Pts
1982	Strandel Motorsport	Toleman TG280	Hart	SIL	HOC	THR NC	NÜR	MUG DNS	VAL DNQ	PAU	SPA						NC	0
		March 812	BMW									HOC 15	DON Ret	MAN Ret	PER	MIS
1983	Bertram Schäfer Racing	Maurer MM82	BMW	SIL Ret	THR Ret	HOC Ret	NÜR Ret	VAL 8	PAU 9	JAR	DON Ret	MIS	PER	ZOL Ret	MUG		NC	0
1984	BS Automotive	March 842	BMW	SIL Ret	HOC 9	THR Ret	VAL 7	MUG Ret	PAU	HOC	MIS 8	PER 7	DON 8	BRH 4			11th	3

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Pts
1985	BS Automotive	March 85B	Cosworth	SIL 10	THR 4	EST DSQ	NÜR C	VAL 8	PAU	SPA	DIJ	PER Ret	ÖST 11	ZAN 9	DON 8	14th	3
1986	BS Automotive	Lola T86/50	Cosworth	SIL 5	VAL 18	PAU Ret	SPA 12	IMO Ret	MUG 11	PER 4	ÖST Ret	BIR 9	BUG 13	JAR 10		14th	4
1987	Eddie Jordan Racing	March 87B	Cosworth	SIL 13	VAL 9	SPA DNQ	PAU Ret	DON Ret	PER DNQ							NC	0
	BS Automotive	Lola T86/50	Cosworth							BRH 22	BIR DNQ	IMO Ret
		Lola T87/50											BUG 16	JAR 12