Keke Rosberg

Keijo Erik "Keke" Rosberg is an automobile old driver Finnish born the December 6th 1948 with Solna, close to Stockholm in Sweden. Present in Formula 1 of 1978 with 1986, it gained the championship of the world in 1982.

Biography

Formula 1

Keke Rosberg begins its career in Formule 1 in the modest team Theodore in 1978. Out-championship, Rosberg gains BRDC International Trophy organized by British Racing Drivers Club over the layout of Silverstone. But in championship of the world, it is qualified only once on Theodore, in 24e position. Keke knows overall a disastrous season, which also sees it controlling for Wolf and ATS with the liking of the financial troubles of the Theodore stable. Without wheel at the beginning of the season 1979, it makes its return to F1 with semi-championship at Wolf to replace the former world champion James Hunt, who has snap the door, depity by the poor services of the Anglo-Canadian cars. Rosberg will hardly make better.

At the end of 1979, the Wolf stable yields its material to the stable Fittipaldi. Keke Rosberg follows the same way and joined the Brazilian stable. Within a team with most badly financially, Rosberg is generally relegated in bottom of grid. In spite of a podium and satisfaction to show itself regularly more powerful than its prestigious team-member Emerson Fittipaldi, the season 1980 turns to the galère. The same applies in 1981, year concluded without the least point with the championship.

At the conclusion of the season 1981, Rosberg leaves the Fittipaldi brothers and is thus found without future prospect. Even if Rosberg is appreciated for its aggressiveness with wheel, large stables see not in him pilot of future (it has already 33 years), while the more modest stables also await pilot that he brings a budgetary complement, which Rosberg is not any more able to make. The buoy of help comes from the team Williams, quite simply world champion of the manufacturers. To have believed a long time (wrongly) that he would manage to make reconsider his pilot fetish Alan Jones his decision to take his retirement, Frank Williams finds itself disabled in the middle of the winter, and has of another solution only to trust Rosberg. Engaged by defect by Williams, Rosberg is even found propelled first pilot of the stable at the conclusion of the second GP of the season, when Carlos Reutemann announces his withdrawal of the competition brutally. Very regular in the absence of being truly brilliant, Rosberg benefits from the inconstancy of its main competitors (in particular the McLaren and the Renault) but especially from the dramas affecting the Scuderia Ferrari (death of Gilles Villeneuve and serious accident of Didier Pironi, solid leader of the championship until two thirds of the season) to take down with the general surprise the so much coveted title of the world champion of the pilots. This season, Rosberg gains only one race besides (the GP of Switzerland, disputed in France on the layout of Dijon-Presnois).

In 1983, Rosberg however proves that he is not a champion by defect by being essential at the time of the Race off Champions out-championship, in Brands Hatch, then in championship of the world, with the manner, at the time of the GP of Monaco. Under a wet track, benefitting from the agility of its V8 Cosworth atmospheric, it delivers a true demonstration of piloting out of tires slicks.

Always at Williams in 1984 and 1985, Rosberg takes an active part in the development of the very new engine V6 Honda turbo. With a very powerful but particularly restive car, it delivers in particular a new spectacular service to take a lead in the sinuous urban layout of Dallas. In 1985, the Honda engine finally become ripe, it gains two new races, still over urban layouts: in Detroit, then at the end of the season in Adelaide, at the end of a brawl of a rare intensity (and sometimes with the limit of the regularity) with the young person Ayrton Senna. Always in 1985, Rosberg is also highlighted at the time of the qualifications of the GP of Great Britain at Silverstone: on a track not completely dry, it signs a pole-position with the astonishing average of 256 km/h, the fastest turn of the history of Formula 1. This record will hold during nearly 20 years.

At the conclusion of the season 1985, Rosberg joined the McLaren stable, world champion titrates some with Alain Prost. One awaits a duel at the top between the two world champions, with the so different styles, but the fight turns short. From the start, Prost irresistibly takes the best on the Finn, quickly reduced to the role of team-member of luxury. Rosberg announces that it leaves Formula 1 at the end of the year 1986.

After F1

Although left Formula 1 at 37 years the sizeable age, Rosberg quickly estimates to have still things to show in track. It tries without success to find a wheel Formulates 1 of them, but is all the same called by Jean Todt in order to make begin in competition the Peugeot 905 in the championship from the world from sport-prototype. Rosberg disputes thus the end of season 1990 as well as the totality of the season 1991. But by leaving Peugeot prematurely (Keke released the prey for the shade, thinking of finding a wheel in F1), it did not take part in the most beautiful hours of the French car in 1992 and 1993.

Rosberg was then reconverted into the German championship of tourism DTM. As a pilot but also as a director of stable. A new cord with the arc of Keke, which at the end of the years 1980, also assembled a company of management of young pilots. It is thus Rosberg which launched the careers of JJ Lehto and Mika Hakkinen. More recently, Keke Rosberg also supported the accession with the more high level of his/her son Nico, become in 2006 pilot holder within the Williams stable.

Course in F1

Victories in Championship of the world of Formula 1

Prize list in F1

  • World champion of the pilots of Formula 1 1982
  • 5 victories in GP
  • 114 disputed GP
  • 159,3 registered points
  • 4 pole-positions
  • 3 better turns
  • 18 podiums

See too

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