Keijo Erik Rosberg (born 6 December 1948) is a Finnish former racing driver. He was the first Finnish driver to compete regularly in the Formula One series. He won the 1982 F1 World Championship with a five-point gap to Didier Pironi. He retired from Formula One at the end of the 2011 season. He is the father of 2016 Formula One World Champion Nico Rosberg.
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Keijo Erik Rosberg (born 6 December 1948) is a Finnish former racing driver. He was the first Finnish driver to compete regularly in the Formula One series. Rosberg won the 1982 F1 World Championship with a five-point gap to Didier Pironi. He is the father of 2016 Formula One World Champion Nico Rosberg. His father Lars Rosberg and mother Lea Lautala were both natives of Hamina, Finland. The family moved back to Finland in the spring of 1950, originally settling in Lapinjärvi and later moving to Hamina and Iisalmi. He made his Formula One debut in 1978 with the Theodore team. His first memorable season came in a year where no driver won more than two races. His 1982 Championship proved to be the last World Championship win for the old Cosworth DFV engine which had been introduced to F1 by Lotus in 1967. His post-championship years would be hamstrung by both uncompetitive chassis from Williams, and the powerful but unreliable Honda turbo engine. He retired from Formula One at the end of the 2011 season. He has a son, Nico, who is a Formula One driver and a former Formula One world champion. He also has a daughter, Emma, who competed in Formula One in the 1990s and 2000s. He currently lives in the U.S. with his wife and two children. He used to work as a car salesman in New York City and has been involved in a number of charities, including the Save the Children Foundation and the World Wildlife Fund.
His son Nico is also a F1 racing driver and has competed in several Formula One races. He won the World Championship in 1982 with a Williams FW07C. He died in a car crash in 2013. He had previously driven in Formula Vee, Formula Super Vee,. Can-Am, Formula Atlantic and its antipodean counterpart Formula Pacific and Formula Two, then F1’s feeder series to Formula One. He competed in the non-Championship BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone in just his second race with the team, emerging victorious after many of the big names had been caught out by a tremendous downpour. He raced for Fred Opert, his American patron, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His last F1 race was in the Swiss Grand Prix at Dijon-Prenois late that year. He drove for the Fittipaldi Automotive team in the 1980s, winning two races and finishing on the podium three times. His most successful season was the 1981 season, when he won the Brazilian Grand Prix and finished second in the Italian Grand Prix. He went on to drive for the Williams FW08 on the opening race of the season in Brazil and then won both races at Brands Hatch and the Race of Champions at Monaco thanks to a choice of slicks at the start of the Monaco Grand Prix in Monaco. His teammate Jacques Laffite got their first F1 Championship win in 1982.
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