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Ronnie Peterson from Sweden from the north failed to get championship medals Like Finland's Keke Rosberg, Mika Häkkinen and Kimi Räikkönen.

When Wolf dropped out of F1 he sold to Fittipaldi, which is why Keke Rosberg became their driver

Delete your channel. The autoosy is clear , he died of a massive heart attack .

Brilliant driver who deserved so much more. Great video I must say, but you missed some parts. In 1972 the car was so bad that March picked up their F2 car and swapped it with an F1 engine, that being the replacement of the tea trey. In 1974 the new Lotus 76 was also so bad that Lotus went to their own storage, dusting off the 72 to race for another 2 seasons of 74 and 75. The 1976 March was also considered undriveable by many. I don't recall his name but an F2 driver got the chance to race the 76 March but after 2nd practice got out of the car and said, this car is beyond driveable, how a driver could take this to finish or even more bring it to a win is beyond my mind. That being said, Ronnie was indeed fantastic. In 1978 the fantastic Lotus 79 was not brought to Ronnie until halfway into the season as for Mario being their no 1 driver, he didn't even want Ronnie as a team mate, nothing personally, but he knew what Ronnie was capable of. Anyway he got the 79 eventually but was held back on multiple occasions due to his no 2 status in the team. He had signed a contract for the 1979 season with McLaren as their no 1 driver, but thats a story we unfortunately never got to see. He had a massive talant that often pushed the cars over the limit of what they held for, just look at clips of him driving a F1 car with opposite lock, drifting around corners. Magical! Thanks for a great video!

Wait a second; Phil Hill DOES have an F1 title (1961).

Ronnie was to F1 what ABBA was to the pop charts in the 1970s. Few could hold a candle to him, he was right up there with the very best. Jochen was my first hero, then Francois, then Ronnie... tragic, may God rest their souls. 😢

Toshio Suzuki raced in 1993.

Great video!👍👍👍 FORZA FERRARI

Shouldn't Finland count for AAW Racing? It was Leo Kinnunen's privateer team and Finland has nothing else so surely it would count as much as Ray's Engineering

Walter Wolf Racjng may be the most underrated F1 team of all time.

My childhood hero.

The opening sentence is immediately incorrect. The first F1 race was in 1947. The first round of F1 in 1950 was not Silverstone either. Silverstone in 1950 was the first round of the Drivers world championship. Please, if you want to post make sure of your facts before you do. You think I am wrong? Read the history and think again.

It's pretty funny that you claim a Three Time World Champion is a Paydriver at Caterham 😂😂😂

Saying that no Irish driver has had success is a little harsh - Eddie Irvine did drive under an Irish license occasionally; he'd essentially get his licence from whichever country charged least for it that year. I'm fairly sure John Watson did the same.

Juan Pablo Montoya is a driver who gave Michael Schumacher a hard time won races but not a title

Redbull didn't complain haha funny stuff

Congratulations! Great video!

"Includng a front wing like a dildo" Squidward. And i aint even a spongebob fan

Yeh Ferrari and Italy *are F1* and tbh even with their droughts they are still *always* a top team (2020 and some other years being the exception), its rare they dont win at least 1 race during a season, heck even in 2023 Sainz got that Singapore master class Compare them with the likes of other powerhouses like Williams and Mcclaren and they have much bigger swings and less consistency and arguably they will/would always be less political to shit in the actual perf but even still they are nowhere near Ferrari

Dude... wtf is a hong konger? Isnt it just 'Cantonese' when describing peoples from HK??

Speaking on unique suffexes Americans usually use their State for it. I was born in New York and live in North Carolina which for both New Yorker or Carolinian are def unique ones

Regarding the Netherlands...did Count Carel Godin de Beaufort's privately entered Porsche, painted in Dutch orange colour, count as an F1 team for the country?

Apparently, the '60s was the last decade when a (technically savvy) driver with win his own car can win a race, even championship.F1 had become more specialized after that.

Well done once again Nedzo. I think you’ve confused Jo Bonnier with John Wolfe, Wolfe was killed in his privately entered 917 at Masion Blanche in ‘69 on the first lap haven’t done up his seatbelts-same race Ickx walked across the start and did up his belts in his gulf/wyer gt40. Bonnier was killed in ‘72 in the early hours of the morning when his private Lola collided with a gt Ferrari 365gtb/4 and was sent over the Armco into the woods shortly before Indianapolis corner. Other then that, spot on

Disagree on Mercedes 4 year engine head start all the teams had the same blue print it is what it is. Wolff and Lewis have a fraction of the talent of the Brawn x Schumi pairing I mean Lewis and would've won those titles with Brawn so can't disagree. Also Rosberg played his part in developing that car he's slightly overlooked imo.

Tbh, UK should be McLaren but this is quite solid.

Brabham won their first two championships with Australian Repco engines and was designed by Ron Tauranac, that's as close to Australian as you can get without flying the flag

Great work sir! I was 13 when I went to my first motor race at Silverstone, the Grand Prix in 1973. Ronnie was my hero from that day on, I still treasure my hardback copy of ‘A story of a search for perfection’ that Ronnie signed for me at the International Trophy race in 1978. A great reminder of his class and charisma in this video.

Thanks for a great review-I couldn't agree more with the choice of Ronnie Peterson. Having followed F1 closely in the 70s he was by far my favorite driver as a huge Lotus fan, extremely exciting to watch with his speed and car control. It could be said that he was somewhat hard on his cars mechanically which probably didn't suit fragile Lotus cars well and that he wasn't great at setting up a car or conveying to the mechanics what needed to be adjusted, unlike Mario and Emmo. Road and Track once did an analysis of one of his fastest laps-I think the 73 Spanish GP- and he basically drove over the limit the entire lap-balls out the whole time-classic Ronnie. Probably the only driver whose heart rate went down when he climbed in the cockpit of a race car. Rest easy Superswede, there hasn't really been anyone quite like you-thanks for the memories.

Ronnie's speed was also his greatest weakness. He always drove as fast as possible every lap, which the cars of the day usually couldn't handle over a grand prix distance. Drivers like Stewart had the skill to drive "as slow as possible and still finish first" (quote from Fangio, I think). With a few more seasons, perhaps Peterson could have developed a better tactical approach, which would probably have made him champion. What a legend!

It should be Hamilton from Schumacher. And Verstappen in the Top 5 and Vettel in the Top 7

Thank you for cocering this! Really like Nico, will watch your video tomorrow 😊.

Over rated. In his time- if he was good enough- he would have.

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Peterson is not criminally underrated. British bias and lack of knowledge of how the Ferrari -apparatus worked back in the day has made you completely ignore the absolute greatest driver to never win a championship. I will give you a tip. A Belgian and he went by two nicknames. Le beau Jacky and Monsieur Le Mans. To put Peterson anywhere close to in the same category is ludicrous. Peterson was either on or off and he never had the smarts to just bring it home. People forget his overdriving the car on a number of occasions

I enjoyed the potted history lesson, thankyou very much. I would, though, point out that that Lotus were “famous” for component failure. Colin Chapmans tenet of “Build in lightness”, together with material science that was a shade of what it is now, resulted in cars that were quick, agile and fragile…Jimmy Clark’s death was the result of component failure.

James Hunt came to taunt Ricciardo Patrese following Peterson's death, because Hunt thought that Patrese was to blame for the accident. Quite ridicilous for Hunt to do that, as it was clear as a day that the responsibility lies on the shoulders of the race starters and their miscommunication.

Ronnie was my childhood hero. We went to the 1977 British GP and arrived during the morning warm-up (remember those)? The first thing I saw was that blue helmet flashing past!

14:28 Daly broke down, he had already crashed many laps before and lost his rear wing. He was driving around without a rear wing for several laps and you can see this very clearly on the broadcast

Watching Brazilian GP 2012 over and over again and waiting that Nico do not slide in to Lewis and he will win that race finaly. :) Btw it looks like conspiracy against him. 40 sec lead and safety car comming. After that he got hard drive through penalty for racing incident and again Gods conspiracy against Nico. :)

For me he was one of the five fastest ever along with Jimmy, Nigel, Ayrton and Lewis. Love to Time Machine them all to a race in an ‘88/9 Ferrari!!!!

It's insane, how history repeats itself, arguable the most naturally talented driver ever in Jim Clark is killed in a terrible accident, Graham Hill has to pick up the pieces in 1968, 26 years later in 1994 arguably the most naturally talented driver ever Ayrton Senna is killed in a terrible accident, Damon Hill has to pick up the pieces in 1994, absolutely insane, they should make a movie about it to honour and pay homage to these great drivers!