Rosberg

Number Thirty Seven

Father of Nico
The second most well known moustache in all of Formula One (second only to Nigel)
Looks like Jamie Hyneman (mythbusters)

Sadly before my time but I've heard Keke was absolutely something

And while he may be the OG Flying Finn- Mika was the one that made that moniker famous (at least in F1)


His familiar is a nod to the engines used my Williams during his Championship year (Ford-Cosworth)

Yes I do realise sometimes his helmet has a yellow panel at the back. But sometimes its blue. And for the sake of FR apparel limitations- I'm going with the blue one

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Formula One World Championship career Nationality: Finnish Active years: 1978–1986 Teams: Theodore, ATS, Wolf, Fittipaldi, Williams, McLaren Entries: 128 (114 starts) Championships: 1 (1982) Wins: 5 Podiums: 17 Career points: 159.5 Pole positions: 5 Fastest laps: 3 First entry: 1978 South African Grand Prix First win: 1982 Swiss Grand Prix Last win: 1985 Australian Grand Prix Last entry: 1986 Australian Grand Prix Keijo Erik Rosberg; born 6 December 1948, known as "Keke", is a Finnish former racing driver and winner of the 1982 Formula One World Championship. He was the first Finnish driver to compete regularly in the series. He is the father of 2016 Formula One World Champion Nico Rosberg. In 1989 Rosberg made his comeback in the Spa 24 Hours in a Ferrari Mondial run by Moneytron (cf. Jean-Pierre Van Rossem and Onyx), the same team that gave Rosberg's protégé JJ Lehto his debut in Formula One. Rosberg was a key element of Peugeot's extremely competitive sportscar squad in the early 1990s. But after two years with the marque and varied successes (two victories and a failed attempt at the 24 Hours of Le Mans), he moved on to the German Touring Car Championship, the DTM, driving for Mercedes-Benz and Opel. Here he set up his own team, Team Rosberg, in 1995 and at the end of that year withdrew from driving to concentrate on running it. Team Rosberg ran for another year in the DTM, until the series collapsed, and has been present in Formula BMW, German Formula Three, the Formula Three Euroseries and A1 GP since. Team Rosberg returned to the revived DTM in 2000, entering two Mercedes. Success, or even just scoring points, became harder with each passing season and Team Rosberg quit the series after their 2004 campaign, only to return in 2006, this time with Audi.

Rosberg later spent a long time managing his countrymen JJ Lehto and future world champion Mika Häkkinen. Until 2008, he also managed his son Nico who entered Formula One in 2006 driving for Williams F1. In 2013 he and Nico became the first father and son to both win at Monaco, 30 years apart from each other. In 2016, he and Nico became the second father son duo to both win Formula One World Championships, after Graham Hill and Damon Hill had won the Championships of 1962 & 1968 and 1996 respectively.

In his karting years, Rosberg had a white helmet with a blue stripe, then, in F1, Sid Mosca (who designed helmets for Brazilian drivers including Ayrton Senna, Rubens Barrichello and Emerson Fittipaldi) painted Rosberg's helmet white with a blue circle on the top and the stripe was divided in a big blue rectangle covering the visor area with some blue rectangles behind (similar to Didier Pironi's helmet design). In 1984, the rectangles were replaced by a yellow trapezium. His son Nico used a design that had similarities to Keke's helmet earlier in his F1 career, with grey replacing blue and with flame motifs, before changing to a new design in 2014.

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