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ROSBERG’S 1982 MARCH IN FORMULA 1’S MOST TUMULTUOUS SEASON EVER

How to remember the 1982 Formula 1 season, a tumultuous year for sure? The year that Keke Rosberg won the title? The year that Gilles Villeneuve was killed?

The year that began with a drivers’ strike and had a race boycotted by some teams? Or the year that team orders became acrimonious in the extreme at Ferrari? Those elements of the season barely scratch the surface.

Keke Rosberg won the championship, the Finn moving to Williams to replace Alan Jones who had retired at the end of ’81. He won but once, the Swiss Grand Prix held in France (which seemed apt

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