Ronnie Pettersson
- January 9, 2024
- Driver
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Ronnie Pettersson Biography
| Name | Ronnie Pettersson |
| Birthday | Feb 14 |
| Birth Year | 1944 |
| Place Of Birth | Örebro |
| Birth Country | Sweden |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
Ronnie Pettersson is one of the most popular and richest Driver who was born on February 14, 1944 in Örebro, Sweden. Bengt Ronnie (Swedish pronunciation: [’ron:I] ‘pet,son]; 14 February 1944 – 11 September 1978) is a Swedish racing driver. He was known as SuperSwede and was a two time runner-up at the FIA Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship.
Peterson was the Grand Prix’s first driver in a March 701 race car for Colin Crabbe’s work-supported Antique Automobiles Racing Team. Peterson finished 12th of the 16 cars that raced due to Crabbe’s limited budget. He finished 10 places behind Jackie Stewart, Chris Amon and Chris Amon on the front row in their newer specification 701s but just behind Jo Siffert in March’s second works. Peterson finished seventh in the March race. Peterson made a huge impression in 1971 when he was promoted to the full March Works team. In 1971, Peterson was promoted to the full March works team and earned five Formula One Grand Prix second place awards. He finished second to Jackie Stewart in the World Championship. Peterson won the Watkins Glen 6 hour race in that year’s World Sports Car Championship, driving an Autodelta Alfa Romeo. Peterson remained at March until 1973 when he signed with John Player Team Lotus as Emerson Fittipaldi’s partner.
Peterson’s first Grand Prix win was at the 1973 French Grand Prix, held at Paul Ricard, in a Lotus 72. He took three more wins that year, in Austria, Italy and the United States, but poor reliability restricted him to only third place in the World Championship at season’s end.
After seeing out his three-year contract at March, Peterson joined Colin Chapman’s Team Lotus in the 1973 season, partnering defending champion Emerson Fittipaldi. During his first two seasons with Lotus, Peterson took seven victories, scoring a career-best 52 points in 1973. After a poor 1975 season, Peterson moved back to March and scored his final victory for the team at the 1976 Italian Grand Prix. After spending the 1977 season with Tyrrell, he moved back to Lotus for the 1978 season as number two driver to Mario Andretti. Peterson scored two wins, at the South African and Austrian Grand Prix races, and finished second in the Drivers’ Championship standings despite his fatal first-lap accident at Monza during the Italian Grand Prix.
Peterson was the F1 driver with the highest raw speed throughout the 1970s. Andretti was the fastest qualifying time during the 1978 season. Some contemporary observers believe that Peterson was in fact the faster of the two. However, Andretti’s car-development skills were what brought the Lotus 78 and Lotus 79 to their full potential. Peterson’s apparent deference to Andretti was an implicit acknowledgment of this. Peterson received a McLaren seat in 1979 despite this. Peterson denied any controversy and stated that Andretti had just turned the faster times.
Ronnie Pettersson Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Driver |
| House | Living in own house. |
Ronnie Pettersson is one of the richest Driver from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ronnie Pettersson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Peterson started his motor racing career with kart racing. This is traditionally where most racers begin their careers. He won a variety of karting titles including two Swedish titles (1963 and 1964), before moving on to Formula Three. There he won Formula Three’s Monaco Grand Prix Formula Three support race in 1969. He won the FIA European Formula 3 Championship later that year and then moved on to Formula One racing for the March factory team. He won six podiums during his three-year tenure with the team. Most of these were earned during the 1971 Formula One season, in which he was also runner-up for the Drivers’ Champion.
He quickly gained the attention of the ambitious Tecno Italian company, who signed him in 1968. He won the 1969 Formula Three Championship with them.
Even after his elevation to F1 status Peterson still drove in lower echelon racing series (which was common at the time), winning the 1971 European Formula Two Championship driving for March.
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In 1977, he raced for Tyrrell, driving the six-wheel Tyrrell P34B. His only podium finish was a third place at the Belgian Grand Prix.
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His teammate Mario Andretti clinched the championship at the race. “It was so unfair to have a tragedy connected with probably what should have been the happiest day of my career”, Andretti said, “I couldn’t celebrate, but also, I knew that trophy would be with me forever. And I knew also that Ronnie would have been happy for me”. Peterson took second place in the 1978 drivers’ standings posthumously.