Ronnie Peterson

Ronnie Peterson, nicknamed Superswede, was a Swedish racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1970 to 1978. He came up through karting, winning Swedish titles in 1963 and 1964, then won the Monaco Formula Three support race and the 1969 European Formula 3 Championship before joining the March factory team. He finished runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers Championship twice, in 1971 and again in 1978, and won ten Grands Prix across nine seasons. After three years at March he drove for Team Lotus beside Emerson Fittipaldi, took seven wins in his first two Lotus seasons, returned to March, spent 1977 at Tyrrell and went back to Lotus as number two to Mario Andretti in 1978. He won the South African and Austrian Grands Prix that year, and died after a first-lap accident at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.