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Key facts
- Born
- Bengt Ronnie Peterson , ( 1944-02-14 ) 14 February 1944, Örebro , Sweden
- Died
- 11 September 1978 (1978-09-11) (aged 34), Milan , Italy
- Cause of death
- Injuries sustained at the 1978 Italian Grand Prix
- Spouse
- Barbro Edwardsson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1975 )
- Nationality
- Swedish
- Active years
- 1970 – 1978
- Teams
- Crabbe , March , Lotus , Tyrrell
- First entry
- 1970 Monaco Grand Prix
- First win
- 1973 French Grand Prix
- Last win
- 1978 Austrian Grand Prix
- Last entry
- 1978 Italian Grand Prix
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Peterson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of birth
- Örebro
- Place of death
- Milan
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Participant in
- 24 Hours of Le Mans
- Field of work
- Formula One race
- Sport
- auto racing
- Member of team
- Theodore Racing
- Image
- Ronnie Peterson 1971 Hockenheim.JPG
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- Commons category
- Ronnie Peterson
- date of birth
- 1944-02-14
- date of death
- 1978-09-11
- birth name
- Bengt Ronnie Peterson
- cause of death
- embolism
- number of wins
- 10
- points for
- 206
- pole positions
- 14
- podium finishes
- 26
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 123
- date of burial or cremation
- 1978-09-15
- manner of death
- accidental death
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Encyclopedic overview
Bengt Ronnie Peterson ( Swedish: [ˈrɔ̌nːɪ ˈpêtːɛˌʂɔn]; 14 February 1944 – 11 September 1978) was a Swedish racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1970 to 1978. Nicknamed "Superswede", Peterson twice finished runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1971 and 1978, and won 10 Grands Prix across nine seasons.
Peterson began his motor racing career in kart racing, traditionally the discipline where the majority of race drivers begin their careers in open-wheel racing. After winning a number of karting titles, including two Swedish titles in 1963 and 1964, he moved on to Formula Three, where he won the Monaco Grand Prix Formula Three support race for the 1969 Grand Prix. Later that year he won the FIA European Formula 3 Championship and moved up into Formula One, racing for the March factory team. In his three-year spell with the team, he took six podiums, most of which were scored during the 1971 Formula One season in which he also finished as runner-up in the Drivers' Championship.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ronnie Peterson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.