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- Keijo Erik Rosberg (born 6 December 1948), best known as " Keke " (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkeke ˈruːsbæri] ⓘ), is a Finnish former racing driver and winner of the 1982 Formula One World Championship. He was the first Finnish driver to win the championship.
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Keijo Erik Rosberg (born 6 December 1948), best known as "Keke" (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈkeke ˈruːsbæri] ⓘ), is a Finnish former racing driver and winner of the 1982 Formula One World Championship. [1]
Keke Rosberg was a Finnish F1 driver who won the 1982 Drivers' Championship for Williams. He competed in Formula 1 from 1978 to 1986.
- 1978-1986
- Finnish
In 1978 he competed in 41 races on 36 weekends on five continents. Driving for the American entrant Fred Opert, he finished fifth in the European Formula Two championship, second in the North American Formula Atlantic series and, in a similar car, first in the Formula Pacific series.
Keke Rosberg won the World Drivers' Championship in 1982 with Williams. 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.
- Finland
- Keke Rosberg
- 1.70 meter / 5 feet 7 inch
- Solna
Formula One driver in the early 1980s and, despite his birthplace Stockholm, Sweden, was the first regular driver from Finland in the series. Keke had a relatively late start to his F1 career, debuting at the age of 29 after stints in the Toyota Atlantic series, Formula Vee, and a successful stint in Formula 2, then the "feeder" to F1.
Aug 29, 2023 · Rosberg was a drivers’ driver. A trailblazer – F1’s first ‘flying Finn’ – he was also majorly cool in a ‘Come to Marlboro country’ kind of way.
By that time he’d already announced his retirement from F1. He later raced in sports cars and the DTM, then managed the career of the driver who succeeded him as Finland’s next world champion, Mika Hakkinen. He also helped his son Nico progress to F1, and eventually emulate him by winning the world championship in 2016.
