Daniel Fausel

Daniel Fausel is a Swiss motorsport official.

2017 TCR International Series
In 2017, he held the role of chairman of the stewards for the TCR International series. having done so since the series began in 2015, along with infamous Belgian Yves Bacquelaine (of 2008 Belgian Grand Prix infamy) and Briton Jonathan Ashman (TCR founder).

In Bahrain, Monza, Oschersleben, Zhejiang and Dubai, Bacquelaine assumed the role of chairman of the stewards, whilst Fausel acted in this position in Spa, Salzburg and Buriram and Ashman in Hungaroring.

Spa
His first race as chairman came in Spa, along with Rod Parkin and ASN appointee Mathieu Remmerie. During qualifying, he punished Davit Kajaia on two seperate occasions, as well as Maťo Homola and Pierre-Yves Corthals for exceeding track limits. After deleting Kajaia's best lap times in Q1 and Q2 for abuse of track limits, he sent the Georgian to the back of the grid afterwards due to an engine change.

The two races this weekend went penalty-free.

Salzburg
His second race as chairman came in Salzburg, along with regular stalwart Yves Bacquelaine and ASN appointee Eva Kerschner. He punished Attila Tassi and Robert Huff by sending them to the back after an engine change and gave Roberto Colciago a 5 place grid penalty for a collision in the round at Monza, but he actually only lost 3 places due to Tassi and Huff starting from the back. For the second consecutive time as chairman, Fausel deleted a best laptime from Davit Kajaia, only this time the Georgian improved his sector and laptime during yellow flags - and in addition to his lap time being cancelled, he was fined €2,000.

The two races this weekend went penalty-free, as was the case with Fausel's first race as chairman.

Buriram
At this race, for the third time in this year's campaign, Fausel assumed the position of chairman of the stewards. For the second time, Rod Parkin served alongside him as International Steward as he did in Spa, and the ASN appointee was Preeda Tantemsapya. Fausel continued the tradition of punishing the Georgian Davit Kajaia in each of his races as chairman in some way, this time an engine change resulted in Aurélien Panis and Kajaia both being sent to the back of the grid for Race 1. The Malaysian Douglas Khoo was sent to the back of the grid for both races, after having not set a time within the 107% limit during qualifying.

The two races this weekend went penalty-free, as was the case with Fausel's first two races as chairman.