In 2002 their career paths diverged, with hamilton remaining in karts and rosberg moving up to singleseaters. As a life long willliams fan, i was most annoyed when alan jones retired he was williams. Nico rosberg career overview years in numbers the following numbers are a summary of the more detailed information available in the career details further below on the page. Australian grand prix nico rosberg f1 drivers fathers love f1 racing car and driver formula one world championship nico rosberg f1 drivers fathers love f1 racing car and driver formula one world championship. Late in 1981 keke rosberg was beginning to think he was reaching the end of his formula one career. Profile for racing driver keke rosberg from finland. Keke rosberg s fifth and final grand prix victory came at the 1985 australian grand prix on the brand new adelaide street circuit.
Click on the site to see this driver s career results at that track. The 1982 formula 1 world champion, keke rosberg competed in formula 1 between 1978 and 1986. Keke rosberg explains why he became an f1 recluse f1. When rosberg went wheeltowheel with the superfast lewis hamilton during 2014 and. He was the first finnish driver to compete regularly in the series. Lewis hamilton claims nico rosberg is not really german. Rosberg retired at the end of the season after 114 races, five wins, 17 podiums and the 1982 title. As it was the final race of the season, it was also rosberg s final race for williams.
He told it how it was, doesnt suffer fools and you always got 100%. List of formula one world drivers champions wikipedia. F1 drivers story keke rosberg the original flying finn was a swaggering swashbuckler whose dashing, daring, darting style of driving enlivened every race he was in. Raikkonens career, at least from the numbers point of view, surpassed those from rosberg and hakkinen, who competed in 20 seasons combined raikkonen is into his 18th campaign. Keke gave the winners trophy to his race engineer, frank dernie. He is the father of former mercedes grand prix driver and 2016 formula one champion nico rosberg. On the anniversary of his first, at dijon in 1982, all of them are showcased below in pictures.
Williams grand prix engineering limited is a british formula 1 racing team and constructor. It featured the 1982 formula one world championship for drivers and the 1982 formula one world championship for constructors, which. During this maintenance it is not possible to change site content like comments, pages and users. Keke rosberg, the 1982 formula one world champion, was the first finnish driver to compete regularly in formula one and the first f1 champion from this nordic country he was active in formula one from 1978 to 1986, recording 114 starts with six teams. F1 motor nico rosberg formula 1 car f1 drivers f1 racing car and driver f 1 vintage racing courses keke rosberg 1984 by f1history on deviantart indy car racing indy cars racing team williams f1 formula one le mans grand prix touring race cars. Rosberg had inadvertently fallen prey to motorsports everpresent wave effect.
Published on mar 8, 2008 this is my tribute to keke rosberg, the first finnish f1 driver to win the world championship. Driver keke rosberg formula one dnqs or wds racing. He won five races and the championship title in 1982, while he was driving for williams. Keijo erik rosberg known as keke, is a finnish former racing driver and winner of the 1982 formula one world championship. Profile for racing driver nico rosberg from germany. Click on the race number to see the complete results for that race. The autosport survey placed rosberg in 25th in the top 40 greatest f1 drivers in history. The drivers championship was first awarded in 1950, to giuseppe farina.
He is one of only two racers to win the championship in a season where he only scored one race victory, the other being mike hawthorn. Won the f1 championship once attended in 9 seasons and have 127 race entrances was born on 6 december 1948, finland. Ford racing driver keke rosberg f1 champion autograph, signed photo. Rosberg drove for theodore, ats, wolf, fittipaldi, williams, and mclaren. Red bull driver verstappen claimed his first pole in f1 at the 93rd attempt after beating mercedes duo valtteri bottas and lewis hamilton in qualifying at the hungaroring. Keke rosberg racing career profile driver database. He is the father of retired formula one driver and 2016 formula one world champion nico rosberg. In 1981 he often struggled even to qualify the fittipaldi and was starting to fear getting behind the wheel in continue reading keke rosberg. The following graph shows the change in the driverdb rating of nico rosberg and keke rosberg over time since january 1st 20. He might not have been the fastest driver of his generation, but he did what he had to do to win that title and get his place on this countdown. Good looking, articulate and fluent in five languages nico rosberg had it all except for the respect of the formula 1 fraternity it seemed. This was a quite legitimate claim since, from his very first race he had never spent any of his own money on his sport and in most years he actually showed a profit. He was the first finnish driver to compete regularly in formula 1, the first to take a.
F1 points driver keke rosberg formula 1 real all time points. He later raced in sports cars and the dtm, then managed the career of the driver who succeeded him as finlands next world champion, mika hakkinen. Keke rosberg, father of nico rosberg drove the car where they became world champion in. Nico rosberg, the son of finnish 1982 world champion keke rosberg, was born in germany and has dual nationality his karting career was backed by his father and in 2000 rosberg snr used his mercedes connections to arrange backing for nico to race with the support of top karting boss dino chiesa. This is my tribute to keke rosberg, the first finnish f1 driver to win the world championship. Coming up for sale is this photo signed by the driver himself in person. Keke won the 1982 f1 drivers championship for willaims and nico the 2016 f1 drivers. Keke rosberg, 1982 world champion and 5 grands prix winner joined mclaren. Check out the racing career of the greatest ever finnish f1 driver who was the first. This is an unofficial website and has no links to keke rosberg. If you would like to try obtain an autograph please go to the official rosberg website at.
Despite being keke s son, rico was a severely underconfident kid and didnt believe that he could be as great a racer as his father. Taking over from the retiring alan jones at williams in 1982, rosberg s sole victory that year came in the swiss gp at dijon, his maiden success in f1. Click on the site to see this drivers career results at that track view career statistics for keke rosberg. Chances of formula 1 success initially seemed remote, but the retirements of two stars and the tragic 1982 season contrived to deliver keke rosberg the world championship itself.
His son, nico rosberg, also became a professional race car driver. F1 news, drivers, results formula 1 live online sky sports. The 1982 fia formula one world championship was the 36th season of fia formula one motor racing. The conversation of smoking come up when rosberg was recalling the last time f1 visited texas. Keke rosberg was born in solna, stockholms lan, sweden on monday, december 6, 1948 baby boomers generation. Nico rosberg has admitted it was not easy to get his father keke to commit to their formula 1 demonstration in monaco this week. Nico erik rosberg born 27 june 1985 is a germanfinnish former racing driver who won the 2016 formula one. A muchneeded title sponsor failed to materialise and the modified f8c lacked development as a consequence. Therefore ron was a very interesting guy to work with. Nico erik rosberg born 27 june 1985 in wiesbaden, west germany is a retired german formula one driver who formerly drove for williams and mercedes.
Rene arnoux, ferrari 126c2b, leads keke rosberg, williams fw08ccosworth, danny sullivan, tyrrell 011. The only child of keke rosberg the 1982 formula one world champion and his german wife sina rosberg, he was raised primarily in the principality of monaco. His five race wins came with williams, between 1982 and 1985. Taking over from the retiring alan jones at williams in 1982, rosbergs sole victory that year came in the swiss gp at dijon, his maiden success in f1. Keke rosberg race car driver life, age, zodiac birthday. Keke rosberg has revealed that he avoided formula 1 during his sons. Mar 08, 2008 this is my tribute to keke rosberg, the first finnish f1 driver to win the world championship. The teambattles piechart provides a view on winsdrawslosses team battles in the f1 driver s career. He was a late arrival in formula one racing, having wheeled and dealed and raced his way around the world in other categories for a dozen years, but tried harder than ever to make up for lost time. He took the title by five points, and was the only man to outscore ferraris didier pironi who didnt take part in the final four races of the season due to careerending leg injuries. By this time all plans for a more conservative profession were abandoned and keke rosberg s passport listed his job as racing driver. Keke rosberg has revealed that he avoided formula 1 during his sons racing career because being a recluse was better than being asked questions about nico. Keke rosberg, formula one world drivers champion 1982. The finnish driver won five races and earned 17 podiums in f1.
According to nico rosberg, only one current formula one driver smokes cigarettes. When he more than matched teammate michael schumacher, the seventime champion was written off as past his prime. Former formula 1 world champion nico rosberg has admitted that he was never a michael schumacher fan growing up, as mika hakkinen was always the driver he admired. Keke rosberg is a 71 years old race car driver, who was born in december, in the year of the rat and is a sagittarius.
The win enhanced rosberg s reputation as a street fighter as. Keke rosberg had triumphed in a dramatic and bizarre 82 campaign, but turbo power was more and more what was required. In the formula bmw adac series the 17yearold rosberg now racing with a german passport won the championship and earned himself a f1 test drive with williams, the team with which keke won the driving title. Keke has had the reputation of being a loudmouth, but without him, there. Rosberg is the son of 1982 world champion keke rosberg and his german wife sina, meaning that he is. This flamboyant finn only won five grands prix but his spectacular car control and laconic character made him every inch a star. Keke rosberg williams world champion driver f1 fews.
Kekes birthstone is tanzanite, turquoise, zircon and topaz and birth flower is narcissus. Rosberg has joined verstappens team boss christian horner in declaring the 21yearold is even better than fivetime world champion and points leader hamilton on current form. Nico knows what it means to me, says keke after rosberg. Find out is keke rosberg dating anyone right now and who at celebscouples. Since its the off season and i would like to start a new topic someth. Nico erik rosberg born 27 june 1985 is a germanfinnish former racing driver who won the 2016 formula one world championship driving for mercedesamg petronas motorsport. Keke has had the reputation of being a loudmouth, but without him, there wouldve never been mika. Despite being kekes son, rico was a severely underconfident kid and didnt believe that he could be as great a racer as his father. The beer and curry secret of f1s last nonpoints race. Scuderia ferrari won the manufacturers championship with the 126c2. Both rosberg and teammate chico serra were regular nonqualifiers from midseason and rosbergs f1 prospects appeared bleak once more. Nico rosberg selects his favourite sky f1 features as both a driver and part of the team. At the bottom three tables if applicable for the selected driver with an overview of f1 wins, fastest laps and championships. I thought i was the fastest driver in the world until i went to mclaren with.
In the table below you can find the details on which drivers make up this pie chart. The mercedes drivers father, the inimitable flying finn keke rosberg, won that 1984 race in dallas. Yet keke stepped up admirably in the chaotic and tragic season that was 1982. Rosberg has driven for theodore, ats, wolf, fittipaldi, williams and mclaren between 1978 and 1986, winning 5 races and the 1982 world drivers championship. Year, age, races, win, podium, pole, laps, led, points, rank, avst, avfn, raf, llf, dnq, wd. Along with hamilton, rosberg lives in monaco, having grown up in the principality, and is the son of a german mother and a finnish father, former world champion keke. Rosberg was fittipaldis unequivocal number one driver in 1981 but it was a disastrous campaign.
Ron has brought so much into f1, be it the carbonfibre chassis on the technical side, or hospitality on the marketing side, and so on and so on. Formula 1 on sky sports get the latest f1 news, results, standings, videos and photos, plus watch live races in hd and read about top drivers. Street circuits offered the dfv runners, like rosberg s williams team, hope. Keke rosberg the original flying finn was a swaggering swashbuckler whose dashing, daring, darting style of driving enlivened every race he was in. During a formula 1 career that spanned nine seasons, 1982 champion keke rosberg scored five race wins. Keke rosberg scored his maiden race win in 1982 and, combined with five podium finishes, he also won the drivers title. Keke rosberg sf 1982 the first finnish world champion. Keke rosberg was the winner of the 1982 formula 1 world championship but many people know very little about one of the sports greatest drivers. Keke rosberg won the world drivers championship in 1982 with williams. Nico rosberg s decision to announce his retirement from formula 1 just five days after clinching his first world title is a major shock but perhaps it. His father keke rosberg has been a f1 world champion in 1982. The original flying finn was a swaggering swashbuckler whose dashing, daring, darting style of driving enlivened every race he was in. Born on the 6th of december of 1948, keijo erik rosberg had a very different journey from other drivers until finding a spot into formula 1 racing. In the formula bmw adac series the 17yearold rosberg now racing with a german passport won the championship and earned himself a f1 test drive with williams, the team with which keke won the driving.
Keke real christian name keijo gained his early motor racing experience in formula vee single seaters before making a name for himself in formula 2 and emerging a surprise winner of the rainsoaked 1978 silverstone international trophy race driving the theodoreford owned by hong kong millionaire teddy yip. Keke wouldnt let you down even when his cars often did. Nov 14, 2012 according to nico rosberg, only one current formula one driver smokes cigarettes. Nico rosberg on following in his fathers, keke rosberg s footsteps and winning a f1 world championship, plus what it was like growing up the son a famous f1 driver.
Legendary williams drivers keke rosberg easy going finn keijo keke rosberg spent four years with williams between 1982 and 1985 taking five wins and one world drivers championship. Finnish racer won the 1982 formula one world championship. Keke rosberg formula 1 driver keke rosberg debuted in 1978 at kyalami. He is the 2016 world champion, and is wellknown for beating the seventime world champion michael schumacher comprehensively on his comeback in 2010, and again in 2011. The legendary williams formula 1 team was formed in 1977, although frank williams had been running cars in f1 since 1969, and manufactured its first design a year later. The rosbergs drove two laps of the principality after the opening. Nico rosberg was born in wiesbaden, west germany, on 27th june 1985, in a prolific formula one family. He had spent four seasons in the sport with various lowranking teams. If you email this website with an autograph request you will be directed to send your request to the offical website at. Sky sports f1 nico and keke rosberg take on monaco at.
We caught up with former mclaren driver, keke rosberg, for an exclusive insight into his time at mclaren. He is the son of 1982 world champion keke rosberg, who is finnish. By that time hed already announced his retirement from f1. The mercedes driver s father, the inimitable flying finn keke rosberg, won that 1984 race in dallas.