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  Formula 1 complete - F1 info, stats and news - Rosberg, Keke
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.
Rosberg wasn't able to qualify for a race afterwards, and was signed by another uncompetitive team, ATS for 3 races after the Theodore team scrapped the unreliable car design.
Rosberg's post championship years would be hamstrung by both uncompetitive chassis from Williams, and the powerful but unreliable (until 1985) Honda turbo engine.
www.f1complete.com /content/view/423/273   (617 words)

  
  Keke Rosberg
Keijo "Keke" Rosberg (born December 6, 1948) was a popular 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.
Rosberg wasn't able to qualify for a race afterwards, and was signed by another uncompetitive team, ATS[?] for 3 races after the Theodore team scrapped the unreliable car design.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ke/Keke_Rosberg.html   (385 words)

  
  Keke Rosberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Keijo Erik "Keke" Rosberg (born December 6, 1948) was a popular Formula One driver in the early 1980s and, despite his birthplace Stockholm, Sweden, was the first regular driver from Finland in the series.
Rosberg wasn't able to qualify for a race afterwards, and was signed by another uncompetitive team, ATS for 3 races after the Theodore team scrapped the unreliable car design.
Keke was a key element of Peugeot's extremely competitive sportscar squad in the early 1990s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Keke_Rosberg   (722 words)

  
 Nico Rosberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is the son of Finnish 1982 Formula One world champion Keke Rosberg, but races under the German flag because of his mother's nationality.
In November 2005, Rosberg was officially confirmed as a WilliamsF1 driver for the 2006 season, in the Engineering aptitude test, administered to all new Williams drivers, Rosberg scored the highest score in the team's history.
Rosberg did manage to get into the points for the second time in the 2006 season, which was at the European Grand Prix, finishing ahead of his more expierienced teammate, who had retired after a hydralic failure.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nico_Rosberg   (598 words)

  
 F1 News - Grandprix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Keke Rosberg
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 rain-soaked 1978 Silverstone International Trophy race driving the Theodore-Ford owned by Hong Kong millionaire Teddy Yip.
Rosberg proved to be an absolute revelation and got the job.
Initially Rosberg was expected to take the number two role as teammate to Carlos Reutemann, but when the Argentine driver quit the sport after only two races the Flying Finn was propelled into the team leadership, a role he fulfilled with enormous relish.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-roskek.html   (312 words)

  
 Keke Rosberg - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Keke Rosberg (Dismember 6, 1279-Gaypril 11, 1456) is the 49th President of Finland and racing driver.
Keke was born in the little village of Stockholm, in Sweden.
Rosberg have Matti Nykänen and Osama bin Laden.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Keke_Rosberg   (273 words)

  
 Deutsche Post SPEED ACADEMY - DTM
Man könnte das Team von Keke Rosberg auch als die Talentschmiede der DTM bezeichnen: Vor einem Jahr stieg Christijan Albers aus der Mannschaft des früheren Formel-1-Weltmeisters in die HWA-Werksmannschaft auf und wurde Vizemeister.
Das DTM-Team von Keke Rosberg ist seit der Neugründung der DTM Partner von Mercedes-Benz und eine eingespielte Mannschaft.
Keke Rosberg, der 1986 seine Formel-1-Karriere beendet hatte, siegte 1992 bei seinem Comeback mit Mercedes im 190 E Evo II in der DTM.
www.speed-academy.de /dtm.html   (5824 words)

  
 The Official Formula 1 Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Keijo Erik Rosberg - he later called himself Keke to make it easier for the media to remember his name - was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 6, 1948, where his Finnish parents were students at the time.
By this time Keke was 33 years old and while his lifestyle was continually improving (he eventually had a Lear jet, a penthouse in Munich, a country mansion in England, a chalet in Austria and a villa on Ibiza where he spent most of his time) his Formula One career was going nowhere fast.
But Keke scared himself on that occasion and eventually burnt himself out from the wear and tear of his all-out-all-the-time approach that was not conducive to longevity in comparison to the greater circumspection employed by such long-serving champions as Niki Lauda and Alain Prost.
www.formula1.com /archive/halloffame/driver/204.html   (986 words)

  
 CNN.com - Williams confirm Rosberg as driver - Nov 3, 2005
Rosberg, who will be the first son of a champion to race in Formula One since Briton Damon Hill retired in 1999, won the inaugural GP2 support series this season.
Finland's Keke Rosberg won the world championship with Williams, despite only one victory in that season, and retired in 1986 with five wins from 114 starts.
Rosberg junior will start his new duties for the team in winter testing, with the debut run of their new Cosworth V8 engine in Barcelona scheduled on November 29.
www.cnn.com /2005/SPORT/11/03/f1.rosberg   (455 words)

  
 A Race to Remember
Keke Rosberg, who had dropped to the very back of the field after his early colision with Senna and Piquet, had fought himself back to tenth place already, setting the fastest lap of the race in the process.
Rosberg and Prost were running close, but the Frenchman showed no sign of wanting to risk his title for third place, while de Angelis was fifth some four seconds behind Prost.
Keke Rosberg was the man of the race in third, while Alain Prost claimed his first World Championship in fourth place.
www.atlasf1.com /2000/eur/preview/schot.html   (3433 words)

  
 Nico Rosberg Press Releases
Rosberg, the 21-year-old rookie who will undoubtedly be a part of the Grove based squad in 2007, told his Castrol column that it is a 'huge' step for a team that presently forks out for Cosworth V8s.
Nico Rosberg has picked up just four points for Williams this season Williams have announced they are to switch to Toyota engines next season in a new three-year deal.
Nico Rosberg has turned the heat on Williams team-mate Mark Webber by claiming that the Aussie is a better qualifier than he is a racer.
www.topix.net /formula1/nico-rosberg/pr   (1480 words)

  
 CNN.com - Williams confirm Rosberg as driver - Nov 3, 2005
Rosberg, who will be the first son of a champion to race in Formula One since Briton Damon Hill retired in 1999, won the inaugural GP2 support series this season.
Finland's Keke Rosberg won the world championship with Williams, despite only one victory in that season, and retired in 1986 with five wins from 114 starts.
Rosberg junior will start his new duties for the team in winter testing, with the debut run of their new Cosworth V8 engine in Barcelona scheduled on November 29.
edition.cnn.com /2005/SPORT/11/03/f1.rosberg   (481 words)

  
 8W - When? - 1983 South African GP
Rosberg, who had started the race with hard tyres, found out that the car behaved much better with the soft ones fitted at the stop and started trying to improve his 10th position.
Rosberg was up to 7th but rubber from the circuit had found its way into the radiator causing it to overheat.
Keke Rosberg's early experience had been gained in Formula Vee single-seaters, and he gradually worked his way up the motor racing ladder, scoring a significant victory in streaming wet conditions at the 1978 Silverstone International Trophy meeting.
www.forix.com /8w/za83.html   (2850 words)

  
 Keke Rosberg
Doch Keke Rosberg ist 1982 der erste Automobilweltmeister aus dem Norden Europas überhaupt.
But in 1982 Keke Rosberg became the first worldchampion in closed circuit racing coming from Northern Europe.
He had been born in Swedish Stockholm in the year 1948, his parents had been still studying (his father later became a dentist), but in spite of that he is a real Finn.
www.research-racing.de /keke.rosberg.htm   (782 words)

  
 Formula 1 : Biography Nico Rosberg - F1-Live.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Son of 1982 World Champion Keke, Nico Rosberg moves up to Formula One after a dominant season in the new GP2 championship in which he took the title with ART Grand Prix.
Rosberg's rise to Formula One saw the German take the traditional karting route starting in 1996 when he became the Regional Côte d'Azur mini-kart Champion.
Rosberg remains with the team in 2007 and is joined by veteran Alex Wurz and Toyota power.
www.f1-live.com /f1/en/drivers/rosberg.shtml   (415 words)

  
 Nico Rosberg promises to be model driver | Formula One | Motor Sport | Sport | Telegraph
Keke was nothing more than a proud father delighting in the achievements of his son.
The grandstand seat allowed Keke to maintain a metaphoric as well as literal distance from the maelstrom enveloping the 20-year-old tyro in his first week in the job.
Rosberg ticks more boxes than most, which is why commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone was so keen to get him.
www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2005/12/02/smgars02.xml&sSheet=/sport/2005/12/26/ixmoto.html   (1054 words)

  
 Son of a gun - Motorsport - Sport - theage.com.au
Keke Rosberg won the 1982 world championship for Williams —; three years before Nico was born.
Rosberg's answer is blunt when I wonder if he might secretly yearn to have competed in those different days.
Rosberg hesitates when prompted to put forward a name from the current era who might have thrived in racing's more vibrant past.
www.theage.com.au /news/motorsport/son-of-a-gun/2006/03/11/1141701735000.html   (1245 words)

  
 motoring.iafrica.com | formula 1 Mika my idol - Rosberg Jr
Rosberg (20) will join Mark Webber at Williams for next season after agreeing a long-term contract on Thursday to follow in the footsteps of his Finnish father Keke who won the 1982 Formula 1 world championship with Williams.
Rosberg, who was born in Germany but lives in Monaco, won this year's GP2 Series championship but acknowledges the media glare of Formula 1 brings much more pressure, particularly because of his father's achievements.
Rosberg became the youngest driver in Formula One history in 2002 when he did a one-off test for Williams as a raw 17-year-old and team boss Englishman Frank Williams believes he is mature beyond his years.
motoring.iafrica.com /formulaone/525692.htm   (609 words)

  
 Rosberg – A Terrifically Fast Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
For Keke Rosberg, this amounts to a homecoming in a way, although he has always been present in the DTM environment.
The return of Audi Sport Team Rosberg, entering two Audi A4 DTM cars, for Frank Stippler and Timo Scheider, marks the DTM comeback of a team which is rich in tradition.
Following his Formula 1 and sportscar careers, Keke Rosberg personally participated in the DTM between 1992 and 1995 – first as a driver, then with a team of his own.
www.audiworld.com /news/06/031706b/content.shtml   (285 words)

  
 Formula One: Rosberg follows his father's formula | Formula one | Guardian Unlimited Sport
Rosberg hesitates when prompted to put forward a name from the current era who might have thrived during racing's more vibrant past.
Rosberg may eventually be worn down but, for now, he actually apologises for his "not so scintillating answers".
Rosberg may not cry as many tears as he did all those years ago when losing to his father on the tennis court, but the same intensity of emotion still surges through both men.
sport.guardian.co.uk /formulaone/story/0,,1725017,00.html?gusrc=rss   (1510 words)

  
 Formel 1 by Thomas Staedeli
The Finn Keke Rosberg was born in Stockholm in 1948.
Rosberg came relative late to the Fourmula One.
Rosberg concluded his career with McLaren where he was in Prost's shadow.
www.cyranos.ch /formel-e.htm   (4976 words)

  
 Castrol Motor Oil and Lubricants - Nico Rosberg profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nico Rosberg has already been hailed Formula 1’s latest ‘Golden Boy’ and it’s not just a less-than-subtle reference to his blonde, flowing locks.
With such a famous ‘racing dad’ it was perhaps unsurprising that Nico was already sitting in single-seaters at the age of 11.
But Rosberg has always played down his family name, and rather looked on the positives of having a former world champion sitting at the dinner table.
www.castrol.com /castrol/genericarticle.do?categoryId=8262008&contentId=7014139   (767 words)

  
 Rosberg snares inaugural championship in Bahrain; HRPWorld.com Race Car Parts and Supplies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Rosberg won the race from pole position followed by his teammate for ART Grand Prix, Alex Premat, and his rival in the championship, Heikki Kovalainen.
The son of former F1 World Champion Keke Rosberg drove the race as truly number one, showing he came to Shakir to take the title and no one was able to stop him.
Rosberg dominated the race with a car that worked perfectly to achieve another victory this season.
www.hrpworld.com /index.cfm?template=news&news_id=2160   (956 words)

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