1.000 km of Buenos Aires, January 9th, 1972: Overall victory for Ronnie Peterson & Tim Schenken with the Ferrari 312 PB. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Interestingly two of Mario Andretti's closest teammates were Swedish--Gunnar Nilsson and Ronnie Peterson. Both left us far too soon.
Came up on my Facesplat page so shamelessly copied: During his short career he won several national championships and the European F2, always behind the wheel of a single seat. There are 123 Grand Prix contested and 10 winners, led for March, Lotus, then March again, Tyrrell to finish with Lotus again. He was missing in the 1978 Italian Grand Prix, in an accident at the start, he had a fractured leg, but during the operation an embolishment formed and the situation escalated. This is how “SuperSwede”, twice runner-up in the world, a king without a crown. After his death Sweden banned F1 races on its territory, the ban is still in force.
This is terrible: very badly written and seemingly translated even more badly. Also Sweden never banned F1, complete nonsense. For centuries a lot of poorly educated folks worldwide have confused Sweden and Switzerland. It is the latter that banned circuit racing after the 1955 Le Mans disaster.
