Keke Rosberg
Keijo Erik " Keke " Rosberg [ ru ː kɛkɛ sbærj ] (born 6 December 1948 in Solna, Sweden) is a Finnish businessman and TV commentator and former race car driver. He started 1978-1986 in the highest class of motorsports Formula 1 and became World Champion in 1982. Rosberg's son, Nico ( born 1985 ) is also a racing driver and starts since 2006 in Formula 1
- 3.1 Statistics in Formula 1 3.1.1 Grand Prix wins
- 3.1.2 Individual Results
Driving career
Keke Rosberg was the eldest of three children of a veterinarian Lars Erik Rosberg and his wife, Lea Aino Marjatta Rosberg, born Lautala in Sweden to the world. He spent his childhood in Oulu in northern Finland and in Iisalmi. He inspired at an early age for racing, as his parents drove rallies. He had originally intended to be a dentist. In 1965, Rosberg took himself to automobile racing part and managed through various junior formulas Finally, in 1978 a relatively late to jump into Formula 1, where he remained until 1986, before other racing series like the DTM turned to.
Formula 1
In his first season started Rosberg for three different teams. First, he drove a race for the Theodore team, prior to signing on for five runs in the German entrepreneur Günter Schmid and his ATS team. He then moved again, this time to Walter Wolf Racing, where he played the following season in 1979. After two years and 16 Grand Prix was for Rosberg not a single point result to book. Nevertheless, the team committed him to former world champion Emerson Fittipaldi as number 2 Driver for the years 1980 and 1981. Indeed, Rosberg was now able to retract his first counter, but remained without great success.
After former world champion Alan Jones had announced his retirement at the end of the 1981 season Williams, Keke Rosberg was unceremoniously and so to speak, taken as a " last resort " by Frank Williams to the team. He was there to support the Argentine Carlos Reutemann in the hunt for the title. As, however, Reutemann suddenly felt tired after two races of the new season on racing, Rosberg was suddenly in the spotlight. He justified the trust and was established in 1982 with just one win from 16 races world champion. With this performance, he equaled the record set by Mike Hawthorn in 1958, which still stands today.
In subsequent years, Rosberg remained loyal to the Williams team and won more Grands Prix. In 1985 he was again World Cup bronze medalist, prior to signing for 1986 at McLaren - TAG Porsche next world champion Alain Prost. In his last season he managed a second place in Monaco and gave a pole position in the Grand Prix of Germany retired from Formula 1 is known. In his last race, the Australian Grand Prix, he retired after suffering a puncture in management of lying and so helped his teammate Prost to the world title. A total of 114 completed Rosberg Grand Prix, which he won five.
DTM
The Finn was racing as a promoter and manager faithful until he returned in 1990 as a pilot. From 1992 he competed in the German Touring Car Championship ( DTM ) for the AMG-Mercedes team, and in 1993 he moved within the series to Opel, before he in 1994 founded his own team. His last assignment as an active driver was on October 15, 1995 at the DTM season finale at Hockenheim on an Opel Calibra. In his honor, there were from the Opel Calibra DTM next to the special model also Keke Rosberg Edition.
Manager, team owner and television commentator
As a manager Keke Rosberg placed his Finnish countrymen JJ Lehto and Mika Hakkinen as drivers in Formula 1 until March 2002 Rosberg worked as a manager of Hakkinen, who won the Formula 1 world championship with McLaren -Mercedes twice.
Today, he is also active as the owner of the racing team Team Rosberg in the DTM and Formula 3 Euro Series.
With the start of the Formula 1 2008 season became the new Formula 1 expert with the pay- TV broadcaster Sky Munich Keke Rosberg, succeeding Hans -Joachim Stuck. Since April 2009, Keke Rosberg is also an ambassador for the Nürburgring. He represents here the world's traditional racetrack and their offers.