Keke was my 1st F1 hero. he was a flat-out-all-the-time racer. A cigarette smoking mustachioed swashbuckler. gave it everything and often more. a true racer.
The legendary lap at Silverstone in qualifying had the tale of him being asleep, waking up to have a cigarette, then doing the fastest lap ever recorded, then getting back out of the car and going back to sleep again. I want to believe that story!
Yes that's epic. Keke had probably 150 hp less. Gilles always passed him on straights but Keke got the corners. He really was a badass driver. His later career 83-85 Williams and also 1986 McLaren was very unreliable. Lots of tech. retirements from top places. That was one of the main reasons he retired. Also his close friend Elio de Angelis death was a factor.
Keke's World Championship year 1982 is hugely underrated. He won the title with an non-competitive and antique car. Idiots call it luck but if it were Senna who won the title, everyone would rave how amazing feat it was. Too bad he switched to McLaren just when Williams started to be competitive again. McLaren didn't suit Keke's driving style at all. Also one thing that the UK-centered F1 media always seems to "forget": Keke soundly beat Nigel Mansell when they were teammates at Williams 1985. Actually Keke said he quit in Williams because he couldn't get along with Patrick Head.
I met Keke in '83 when he was racing in the Detroit Grand Prix. ICI had reserved the restaurant I worked at for his reception dinner the day before qualifying. Pretty cool for a 19yo kid to meet the F1 World Champion. Sadly I couldn't go watch the race live, as a restaurant worker rarely gets a weekend day off (busiest night of the week).
@@teroalho847 Well Keke earned the Finnish Sports Personality of the Year in 1982 whereas the previous year Ari Vatanen came second to biathlete Heikki Ikola
@@janiandelin93 OK new info for me.👍 Good that he got some credit on thosr Times not just laughs like " DNF Keke" "worst world champion in F1 history" 😅
Keke Rosberg is one of the best to ever do it, but, as far as I’M concerned, no one will ever take the title of F1 badass away from Niki Lauda; the man had balls of steel big enough to fit in a dump truck, and what he pushed himself through to get back out on the track after that horrific ‘76 crash wasn’t just badass, it was damn near superhuman
I'll never forget the crowds chanting "Ke-Ke! Ke-Ke! Ke-Ke!" with a rising inflection like a engine revving, after Keke won the Inaugural Australian GP ibn 1985.
If anyone wants to see visual evidence of Keke’s no-holds barred and sideways style, watch the 1985 South African GP. The last part of the race he drove so hard and so spectacularly around that fast, dangerous circuit to try to catch his teammate who was leading. Keke finished 2nd- he would have won if he hadn’t been tripped up by a huge oil slick at the first corner dropped off by another car.
Keke often had two cigarettes going at the same time just before his final qualifying lap; the only driver who needed an ashtray in the car... I believe he also held the fastest F1 lap record from 1986 at Silverstone (160 mph) that stood until 2003. He was very fast.
"You can pick any lap of the Monaco GP showing Keke Sliding and drifting around Massenet and casino square, with perfect car control" then shows a video clip of Keke going round Massenet and Casino, like he is on rails. Not denying Keke's driving skills, just the awful monotonous American commentary and horrendous research and presentation of this.
You’ve also missed that Rosberg was suffering from a virus all weekend and actually threw up in his helmet later on. somehow still finished/won the race.
He won Adelaide in 1985. And retired from tech. issue from a slight lead in 1986. His last race. That kind of summed up his career. Always very unreliable cars.
5:16 To be fair: Under normal circumstances, Ferrari-driver Didier Pironi would have won the championship in 1982. But Rosberg definately deserved a title.
Following this logic we could say that Schumacher didn't deserve the 1994 and 1995 WDC's because Senna died. It doesn't work that way. And Pironi had WAY superior car. Keke won with a car that had 200hp LESS and was consistent.
In the 1970's, Canadian TV carried the Formula Atlantic series, which is where I first saw Rosberg. He was very competitive in that series. I was not surprised that he showed up in F1, but was quite surprised when he won the title in 1982. "Oh, he really is that good!" Some people I knew dismissed his title as being won by default, due to the death of Villeneuve and the career ending crash of Pironi that year (i.e. two "real" champions in waiting).
So what. With an antique and underpowered car. If Senna had done it, it would have been praised by the media since 1982. Keke soundly beat Nigel Mansell at Williams 1985. Something that UK fanboys never seem to remember.
As a Finn, I'm amazed you managed to correctly pronounce Rosberg and Lehto, but mispronounce Häkkinen. Usually it's the other way around with English speakers.
That has to be one of the worst voices on a video I've heard, trying to put to much importance into every sentence, when it's not needed, doesn't really work well outside the US. Just saying.
Keke only won the one race in 1982, and wins were pretty spread out that competitive season. However, worth noting that season had the Ferrari team lose both their drivers, Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi, killed & permanent injury respectively. Either could have been the likely title winner. Ferrari had the excellent 126C2-turbo, that gave them the 1982 Constructors title, in spite of a tragic season, with replacement drivers Patrick Tambay & even Mario Andretti late on, taking over Villeneuve & Pironi's seats.
Nah,Gilles was not consistent enough to do it. This wlhurt him in 1979,was he faster than Sheckter? Yes. But Schekter actually finished the race,got the points.
Gilles way overrated by the media. Sure he was a spectacular driver but made a lot of mistakes. That kind of argument is just as valid as if Senna had been alive, Schumacher wouldn't have won any of his titles at Benetton.
Soory, no. Juan Manuel Fangio. Early in his career he won a 6,000 - yes, 6,000 - mile long stock car race in a 1940 Chevrolet sedaan. Keke was a hard man, but he never was the equal of Fangio, nor has been any other F1 driver.
I doubt VERY much that Keke would of won the Championship in 1982, had not Didier Pironi have his horrible crash. When Didier crashed at the German GP, where Keke finished 3rd, Didier had a 39 to 27 pts lead over Keke. With the four remaining GPs, ending in Las Vegas, Keke only won the Championship by 5 pts and Didier was tied for 2nd spot with John Watson.
Yeah, again, if wishes were horses we'd all have a stable. Pironi didn't win, though he did contribute to the death of his teammate. Rosberg won. Period.
@@fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044 what are you talking about, the OP rightly pointed out the difference in driving styles between father and son. You quite obviously have an obsession with Nicos ex team mate. Strange way to show your attraction to him but all good ❤️🌈
Prost said “I’ve seen Keke do things in a car that nobody else could do.”
That’s enough for me
Reckon Peterson & Gilles Villeneuve were more spectacular
@@darrenreed3257unlike Gilles , Keke was both spectacular and did not crash often,
Keke beat Nigel Mansell in Williams 1985. That's something that UK F1 journalists don't want to remember.
Nelson Piquet said Keke was a nobody.
Keke was my 1st F1 hero. he was a flat-out-all-the-time racer. A cigarette smoking mustachioed swashbuckler. gave it everything and often more. a true racer.
Keke could walk through Hell and come out asking for a smoke. Badass indeed!
The legendary lap at Silverstone in qualifying had the tale of him being asleep, waking up to have a cigarette, then doing the fastest lap ever recorded, then getting back out of the car and going back to sleep again. I want to believe that story!
If Kimi was allowed to smoke, I could see him totally doing this when he broke the record in Monza.
True
And he had a deflating tyre
Is there any footage of the pole lap?
@@marcstafanov8431i sadly dont think there is
Watch Keke Rosberg battle Gilles Villeneuve at Long Beach 1982. 2 bad ass drivers dramatically swapping positions!
Yes that's epic. Keke had probably 150 hp less. Gilles always passed him on straights but Keke got the corners. He really was a badass driver. His later career 83-85 Williams and also 1986 McLaren was very unreliable. Lots of tech. retirements from top places. That was one of the main reasons he retired. Also his close friend Elio de Angelis death was a factor.
I have always been a huge Keke fan. I met him during a test day at Silverstone, super friendly chap.
Keke is John The Baptist of Finnish F1 star pilots . Man of honor. God bless his and son Nico's lives.
Only F1 racer to win the Dallas Grand Prix!!!!
Keke's World Championship year 1982 is hugely underrated. He won the title with an non-competitive and antique car. Idiots call it luck but if it were Senna who won the title, everyone would rave how amazing feat it was.
Too bad he switched to McLaren just when Williams started to be competitive again. McLaren didn't suit Keke's driving style at all.
Also one thing that the UK-centered F1 media always seems to "forget": Keke soundly beat Nigel Mansell when they were teammates at Williams 1985.
Actually Keke said he quit in Williams because he couldn't get along with Patrick Head.
Keke rosberg great driver and unfortunate champions in 1982 season
Yes, this Finn really amazes me! It is necessary to have unreal willpower to perform quite successfully in Formula 1 for several seasons in a row)
How come there is no footage of that Keke's Silverstone legendary world record lap? Amazing.
Due to copyright i didn't manage to put it in the video.
@@F1Peak No I mean there is no footage of that lap period. It doesn't exist (as far as I know).
oh i see@@detonator2112
I met Keke in '83 when he was racing in the Detroit Grand Prix. ICI had reserved the restaurant I worked at for his reception dinner the day before qualifying. Pretty cool for a 19yo kid to meet the F1 World Champion. Sadly I couldn't go watch the race live, as a restaurant worker rarely gets a weekend day off (busiest night of the week).
It's interesting to note that the two father-son champions have ties to Williams - Keke Rosberg & Damon Hill both won with Williams.
Nico drove for Williams too, although he didn't win with them.
Both dads had moustaches too.
Through all his career he tried convincing finnish media that F1 was a big popular thing that they should take a look on, and they never listened :(
Yep, Finland back at the late 70's and early 80's...
In those times Rally was bigger sport than F1. This was reality in
Finland and also in rest of Europe.
@@teroalho847 Well Keke earned the Finnish Sports Personality of the Year in 1982 whereas the previous year Ari Vatanen came second to biathlete Heikki Ikola
@@janiandelin93 OK new info for me.👍 Good that he got some credit on thosr Times not just laughs like " DNF Keke" "worst world champion in F1 history" 😅
My dad still has the 83 monaco gp on VHS. Keke was pioneer for finnish track sporting. As an 80's child Keke was something special to me. And still is
That vhs should be digitized and uploaded somewhere.
Cripes - you didn't include his most notable achievement of all - the 160.9 mph in qualifying - which stood until JP Montoya in 2001.?
I was there and saw it - incredible!!
@@martinh1543 Lucky you. There's still no free clips of that anywhere - thanks to F1 Inc.?
In Spain Keke have a song by the group "Siniestro Total"😮
Only Alonso, Lauda & Keke have a song in spanish😮
Take that ! 😮
I met Keke at Brands Hatch 1982 & have a really good quality autograph
Dallas 84 was Peak Rosberg.
I like Keke because he didn't just smoke the tyres - but he also smoked in real life. 🚬
Keke Rosberg is one of the best to ever do it, but, as far as I’M concerned, no one will ever take the title of F1 badass away from Niki Lauda; the man had balls of steel big enough to fit in a dump truck, and what he pushed himself through to get back out on the track after that horrific ‘76 crash wasn’t just badass, it was damn near superhuman
83 Monaco is easily top 5 best drives of anyone ever.
Might be the best F1 drive of all time
The question was often only whether the car could last to the end given Keke’s furious driving style.
I'll never forget the crowds chanting "Ke-Ke! Ke-Ke! Ke-Ke!" with a rising inflection like a engine revving, after Keke won the Inaugural Australian GP ibn 1985.
MY IDOLS ON F1 JOCHEN RINDT. ALAIN PROST. KEKE ROSBERG.
If anyone wants to see visual evidence of Keke’s no-holds barred and sideways style, watch the 1985 South African GP. The last part of the race he drove so hard and so spectacularly around that fast, dangerous circuit to try to catch his teammate who was leading. Keke finished 2nd- he would have won if he hadn’t been tripped up by a huge oil slick at the first corner dropped off by another car.
To be fair Keke was a porn star who only dabbled in F1 when not filming
😂😂😂 Aaah, right, sir! 🎉
You forgot to mention that 1982 Williams Ford Cosworth engine was non-turbo engine against others turbo engines
But that was before the turbos were reliable enough to win races (other than Renault)!
Keke was cool. Hard charger of finest quality.
What a dentist did world loose, when Keke decided to be a race car driver...
Keke often had two cigarettes going at the same time just before his final qualifying lap; the only driver who needed an ashtray in the car...
I believe he also held the fastest F1 lap record from 1986 at Silverstone (160 mph) that stood until 2003. He was very fast.
"You can pick any lap of the Monaco GP showing Keke Sliding and drifting around Massenet and casino square, with perfect car control" then shows a video clip of Keke going round Massenet and Casino, like he is on rails. Not denying Keke's driving skills, just the awful monotonous American commentary and horrendous research and presentation of this.
Yes the Source Is In the description
@F1 Peak Oh OK!! You ment Badass, as in commentary and visual interpretation of this. OK got it now.
You’ve also missed that Rosberg was suffering from a virus all weekend and actually threw up in his helmet later on. somehow still finished/won the race.
LOLing at the forced fake guttural voiceover
I think that even though it was a long time ago, you still need to know such people and be interested in his biography and successes.
Had a $100 bet that he'd win the Australian GP at Adelaide. Although my fav drivers are Australian, at the time he was my no1 driver.
He won Adelaide in 1985. And retired from tech. issue from a slight lead in 1986. His last race. That kind of summed up his career. Always very unreliable cars.
5:16 To be fair: Under normal circumstances, Ferrari-driver Didier Pironi would have won the championship in 1982. But Rosberg definately deserved a title.
Following this logic we could say that Schumacher didn't deserve the 1994 and 1995 WDC's because Senna died. It doesn't work that way. And Pironi had WAY superior car. Keke won with a car that had 200hp LESS and was consistent.
His son could only dream to be as BADASS as his dad. He can only dream to be as good as his dad at driving aswell
Keke was a fucking Viking!
Watch Keke Rosberg - Formula rock
Love how you pronounce Rosberg as Roosbergi, closer to how Finns say his name.
A great subject - but made unwatchable by the absolutely *absurd* voiceover.
In the 1970's, Canadian TV carried the Formula Atlantic series, which is where I first saw Rosberg. He was very competitive in that series. I was not surprised that he showed up in F1, but was quite surprised when he won the title in 1982. "Oh, he really is that good!" Some people I knew dismissed his title as being won by default, due to the death of Villeneuve and the career ending crash of Pironi that year (i.e. two "real" champions in waiting).
When he won Monaco next year and beat Nigel Mansell in Williams 1985 people finally shut up.
Gilles was never a champion material. Pironi wasn`t never close to it. Prost and Watson were the real challengers.
What,s this guy taking ,,sounds kindof slurry to me..
keke the best
Kudos for pronunciation of the name - it was perfect!
Not the original Flying Finn! 😆
There has been many before him.
Love them, they're amazing...
Was a huge Keke fan he was a bad ass
This is so 'American' - gushy to the point of nausea
Is this an app talking?
ケケって喧嘩強そう。
Keke bad boy f1 smoke cigarette fast driver
Thumbs up for the correct pronunciation of the names Rosberg, Lehto and Häkkinen 👍
häkkinen wasnt good, it was a perfect hakkinen, but not a häkkinen
keke foi um otimo piloto
He was soooooooo badass, that he only won 1 race in a Williams for the WC.
So what. With an antique and underpowered car. If Senna had done it, it would have been praised by the media since 1982. Keke soundly beat Nigel Mansell at Williams 1985. Something that UK fanboys never seem to remember.
Keke keke keke keke Roosberi Roosberi😂
I really like to watch races, and it will undoubtedly remain in history
As a Finn, I'm amazed you managed to correctly pronounce Rosberg and Lehto, but mispronounce Häkkinen. Usually it's the other way around with English speakers.
there have been many 'Flying Finns' but none of them were, like Keke was, born is Sweden
Yes, born in Sweden, but his is not swedish.
Cool Dude Keke 👍😎
That has to be one of the worst voices on a video I've heard, trying to put to much importance into every sentence, when it's not needed, doesn't really work well outside the US. Just saying.
You wrote Nelson Piquet wrong bro xD
Interesting video! Seriously very cool.Keijo Keke very interesting person
Fins are always strange when they drive in F1...
James Hunt was pretty cool too.....
Keke only won the one race in 1982, and wins were pretty spread out that competitive season. However, worth noting that season had the Ferrari team lose both their drivers, Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi, killed & permanent injury respectively. Either could have been the likely title winner. Ferrari had the excellent 126C2-turbo, that gave them the 1982 Constructors title, in spite of a tragic season, with replacement drivers Patrick Tambay & even Mario Andretti late on, taking over Villeneuve & Pironi's seats.
..yeah, and if wishes were horses we'd all have a stable...
Nah,Gilles was not consistent enough to do it. This wlhurt him in 1979,was he faster than Sheckter? Yes. But Schekter actually finished the race,got the points.
Gilles way overrated by the media. Sure he was a spectacular driver but made a lot of mistakes. That kind of argument is just as valid as if Senna had been alive, Schumacher wouldn't have won any of his titles at Benetton.
Get your pronunciation right.
WHY???? World Champion??!!
Why is the Goodyear hat in Mirror Image?
lol, AI voices are hilarious 🤣
Common W Keke Rosberg
Who's Rosebery???
Without a doubt, the video clip is pretty good, there are no words.
James Hunt!
Finland confirmed
Ross-berry?!!! Oh dear oh dear
@E.H.T Ok, I stand corrected!
Soory, no. Juan Manuel Fangio. Early in his career he won a 6,000 - yes, 6,000 - mile long stock car race in a 1940 Chevrolet sedaan. Keke was a hard man, but he never was the equal of Fangio, nor has been any other F1 driver.
Why is an English speaking person saying everyone’s name with a Finnish or Swedish accent? So ridiculous.
His career nearly ended before F1 contract, caused of lack of money. One Danish sex bar owner gave money enough to get back to Finland with race car.
I doubt VERY much that Keke would of won the Championship in 1982, had not Didier Pironi have his horrible crash. When Didier crashed at the German GP, where Keke finished 3rd, Didier had a 39 to 27 pts lead over Keke. With the four remaining GPs, ending in Las Vegas, Keke only won the Championship by 5 pts and Didier was tied for 2nd spot with John Watson.
You may doubt many things. Fact is that Rosberg did win the championship. He could have been last too, if.... ...whatever...
@@Kaktuskastl The "FACT" is, He wasn't last or couldn't of been last, scoring 27 pts by the German GP.
Yeah, again, if wishes were horses we'd all have a stable. Pironi didn't win, though he did contribute to the death of his teammate. Rosberg won. Period.
@@caribman10 Not interested in a horse nor a stable. And Keke is the MOST undeserved GP champion. PERIOD.
@@Yardbird68 Deserve has nothing to do with scoring the most points.
He sure didn’t pass those genes onto his son Nico , who didn’t go in for hard fighting.
Awwww...Lulu fans still bitter.
Way to go at totally misunderstanding a straightforward statement.
@@trappenweisseguy27 Nico still living rent free in Lulu fans' (wee) minds.
@@fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044 what are you talking about, the OP rightly pointed out the difference in driving styles between father and son.
You quite obviously have an obsession with Nicos ex team mate. Strange way to show your attraction to him but all good ❤️🌈
@@sultanoftippoo3857 Awww...another Lulu fan got his emotions hurt. They have an infinite number of tears.
Why are you talking like that?