The original "Flying Finn" (Keke Rosberg)

Member Name: MichaelR

Product:	Keke Rosberg
Date:	28/01/01 (28 review reads)
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Advantages: Won the championship......

Disadvantages: ......didn't do much else

Keke Rosberg was the first driver from Finland to achieve any real success within Formula One, and was probably responsible for the increased interest in F1 from within Finland more than another other person.

Finland has always been a country that has been more interested in Rallying than in circuit racing. (All that snow and ice you see!)

Keke is now Mika Hakkinen's manager, but he enjoyed quite a healthy racing career in his time.

I certainly would not classify him a great driver, although he was definitely "very good".

He won the 1982 World Championship, driving for Williams alongside Carlos Reuetemann, and the key to his success that year was consistency more than anything else.

He only took a single win that year, at Dijon (the Swiss Grand Prix) but still took the championship.

A lot of people thought he was cocky, arrogant even (I'm starting to hate that word!) but I think everyone agreed that he has a good sense of humour, and he was liked because he was able to laugh at his own misfortunes, rather than just moan.

He didn't enjoy great success in F1... but he won a World Championship, which is more than a lot of drivers can say. Only five wins, but a wholly likeable driver who had one championship win.

Not one of the greats, not by any stretch of the imagination, but still a very good driver.

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Keke Rosberg - Grand Prix Record

Grand Prix - 114
Wins - 5
Win Ratio - 4.4%
Poles - 5
Fastest Laps - 3
Points Scored - 159.5
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