Carlos Reutemann
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| First start: | 1972 Argentina Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1982 Brazilian Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1972–1976 Brabham • 1976–1978 Ferrari • 1979 Lotus • 1980–1982 Williams | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | Vice World Champion ( 1981 ) | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | 310 | ||||||||
| Podiums : | 45 | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | 661 over 3377.8 km | ||||||||
Carlos Alberto Reutemann (born April 12, 1942 in Santa Fe , Santa Fe Province ; † July 7, 2021 ibid) was an Argentine racing car driver and politician . The descendant of Swiss immigrants, known in his homeland under the nickname "El Lole", was active in the top motorsport class Formula 1 from 1972 to 1982 and went there for well-known teams such as Brabham , Ferrari , Lotus and Williamsat the start. From 1991 to 1995 and from 1999 to 2003 Reutemann acted as governor in his home province of Santa Fe . He was a senator for that province from 2003 until his death in 2021 .
Athletic career
Beginnings
Reutemann, who comes from an Argentine father and an Italian mother and had a Swiss- German grandfather, began his motorsport career in 1965 at the age of 23 in various touring car series in Argentina. In 1968 he switched to formula racing and tried his luck in Argentine Formula 2 , in which he won ten out of twelve races in the 1969 season. In 1970 he accepted an invitation from the Argentina Automobile Club to drive one of its Brabham racing cars in European Formula 2. Already in his first race at the Hockenheimring he drew attention when he collided with the Austrian Formula 1 driver Jochen Rindt . He finished the year fourth overall, which secured him a place for the next season. In 1971 he just missed winning the title against Sweden's Ronnie Peterson . Reutemann's positive development moved the boss of the Brabham Formula 1 team, Bernie Ecclestone , to offer him a cockpit for the 1972 season .
formula 1
Brabham (1972-1976)
Reutemann's Grand Prix debut in his home country and alongside ex-world champion Graham Hill , for whom he was almost 30 years old, made headlines. He immediately qualified for pole position in his Brabham BT34 , something that only Mario Andretti (1968) had achieved before him and Jacques Villeneuve (1996) after him - but unlike Reutemann, both had driven in the fastest car in the field . The debutant finished the race in seventh place after losing his lead due to tire problems. The only success of the 1972 season was a win at the Brazilian Grand Prix, which, however, did not have World Cup status. Reutemann also received a place for 1973 and was on the podium twice during the season. In 1974 he experienced his breakthrough in Formula 1: with three wins and a total of 32 points in 15 races, he achieved sixth place in the drivers' world championship. In 1975 , with a victory at the prestigious German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, he even came third in the final score. Reutemann stayed with Brabham for another year, but their vehicle for the 1976 season quickly turned out to be hardly competitive. Equipped with the new, hardly tested engines from Alfa Romeo , his Brabham kept failing due to technical failure. After twelve of 16 races, Reutemann had enough and bought himself free from his Brabham contract. After the serious fire accident of the world champion Niki Lauda , he expected to take his place at Ferrari .
Ferrari (1976-1978)
Lauda, however, struggled hard drawn back into the cockpit. In 1976 El Lole only competed in one race for Ferrari. For the 1977 season , the traditional Italian team signed him instead of the hapless Swiss Clay Regazzoni - but at the side of Niki Lauda, who had an aversion to Reutemann. Reutemann started the year with a third place and a win, but was then overshadowed by his strengthened team-mate, who won his second world title. After Lauda fell out with Enzo Ferrari and switched to Brabham at the end of the year, Reutemann sensed his chance. In fact, he won four races in 1978 , but still finished the season behind the overpowering Lotus 79 of Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson. Although Reutemann would have liked to stay, Ferrari had already signed the South African Jody Scheckter alongside Gilles Villeneuve for the next season : “I would never say anything against Villeneuve, not even against Ferrari. The atmosphere there was a bit "casino", but it was a happy time for me. I would have liked to stay, but there was a constant romance between Ferrari and Jody Scheckter. "
Lotus (1979)
The Argentine then switched to Lotus, where Ronnie Peterson's place was vacated after his death after the 1978 Italian Grand Prix . But the other teams had meanwhile copied the ground effect concept from Lotus and caught up; the team of Colin Chapman slipped into midfield. Reutemann used the superior model from last year and collected 25 points - more than his teammate Andretti with the new Lotus 80 model . But of all things, Reutemann's successor at Ferrari, Jody Scheckter, became world champion in 1979 . Reutemann wanted to quickly get out of the trap he thought he was in at Lotus. So he accepted the offer from Frank Williams, whose team had now risen to the top, and again replaced Clay Regazzoni.
Williams (1980-1982)
In 1980 Reutemann won the Monaco Grand Prix and scored points in 15 consecutive races (until Monaco 1981 ). He finished the season in third place overall but was again overshadowed by his more successful teammate, this time Australian Alan Jones , who became world champion. In 1981 - at the age of almost 39 - he saw his last chance to become Formula 1 world champion. So he ignored his contract as the number 2 driver to let Jones pass if he was behind him and won the Brazilian Grand Prix in Jacarepagua . Although he took the lead in the world championship, which he subsequently expanded, he had gambled away his credit in the team with this action and could count on its support less and less over the course of the season. Conversely, Jones also refused to support Reutemann in the fight against Brabham driver Nelson Piquet . In competition with Piquet, Reutemann's closest pursuer, who caught up with him in the course of the second half of the season, a decision was made at the Las Vegas Grand Prix in the parking lot of Caesars Palace in the fall of 1981 . Reutemann started the final race one point ahead. Although he initially qualified for pole position, he drove an inexplicably desolate race, in the course of which he was even overtaken by his team-mate and his World Cup opponent Piquet and which he only finished in eighth place. Fifth place was enough for Piquet to win the title by one point. After Alan Jones announced his resignation, Reutemann also initially considered this step, but also tackled the 1982 season at Williams. After only two races, however, he ended his eventful career and officially announced his retirement from Formula 1.
Carlos Reutemann won a total of twelve Grand Prix in Formula 1, was on the best starting position six times and scored 310 world championship points. In 1975, 1978 and 1980 he was third in the World Cup and vice world champion in 1981. Reutemann is also still the most successful Argentine Formula 1 driver behind the five-time world champion Juan Manuel Fangio .
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World Rally Championship (1980, 1985)
In addition to racing in monoposto racing cars, rallying was also a passion of Reutemann. He started in national championships and twice in the world rally championship . In 1980 he finished third in a Fiat 131 Abarth at the Codasur Rally (later called Rally Argentina ) . Reutemann tried again to classify in the 1985 Rally Argentina. This time, too, he crossed the finish line in third place with a Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 E2 . Reutemann was the first Formula 1 driver to date who managed to score points in the Formula 1 World Championship and the World Rally Championship. Later only Kimi Raikkonen succeeded in doing this in 2010 .
Political career
After the end of his active motorsport career, Reutemann withdrew from the public for a while before entering politics in the late 1980s under the influence of his friend, later Argentine President Carlos Menem . He first sought a post in the politics of his home province of Santa Fe and joined the Peronist Party . In 1991 he ran for governor. He won the election and initially held this position until 1995. Because of a passage in the Argentine constitution, Reutemann was unable to run again directly after his first term of office. He ran for re-election in 1999 and was elected to his second term, which lasted until 2003. After leaving the office of governor, he ran for senator for his province and won again. Reutemann was also under discussion as a candidate for the office of President in 2003 and 2009, but ultimately decided not to run. In 2009, Reutemann was confirmed as a senator. In 2015 Reutemann joined the Propuesta Republicana , which belongs to the electoral alliance Cambiemos . For this alliance he was re-elected as senator for the province of Santa Fe.
statistics
Career stations
Statistics in the automobile / Formula 1 world championship
These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the Formula 1 World Championship , which until 1980 was known as the Automobile World Championship.
Grand Prix victories
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| season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
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| 1972 | Motor Racing Developments | Brabham BT34 / BT37 | Ford Cosworth 3.0 V8 | 10 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 16. |
| 1973 | Motor Racing Developments | Brabham BT37 / BT42 | Ford Cosworth 3.0 V8 | 15th | - | - | 2 | - | - | 16 | 7th |
| 1974 | Motor Racing Developments | Brabham BT44 | Ford Cosworth 3.0 V8 | 15th | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 6th |
| 1975 | Martini Racing | Brabham BT44B | Ford Cosworth 3.0 V8 | 14th | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 37 | 3. |
| 1976 | Martini Racing | Brabham BT45 | Alfa Romeo 3.0 B12 | 12th | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 16. |
| Scuderia Ferrari SEFAC | Ferrari 312T2 | Ferrari 3.0 B12 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 1977 | Scuderia Ferrari SEFAC | Ferrari 312T2 | Ferrari 3.0 B12 | 17th | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 42 | 4th |
| 1978 | Scuderia Ferrari SEFAC | Ferrari 312T3 | Ferrari 3.0 B12 | 16 | 4th | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | 48 | 3. |
| 1979 | Martini Racing Team Lotus | Lotus 79 | Ford Cosworth 3.0 V8 | 15th | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 25th | 7th |
| 1980 | Albilad Williams Racing Team | Williams FW07B | Ford Cosworth 3.0 V8 | 14th | 1 | 3 | 4th | - | 1 | 49 | 3. |
| 1981 | Albilad Williams Racing Team | Williams FW07C | Ford Cosworth 3.0 V8 | 15th | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 49 | 2. |
| 1982 | TAG Williams team | Williams FW07C | Ford Cosworth 3.0 V8 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 6th | 15th |
| total | 146 | 12th | 13th | 20th | 6th | 6th | 310 | ||||
Single results
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| colour | abbreviation | importance |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside of the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not take part in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
Le Mans results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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Web links
- Official fan website (Engl./span./ital.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ex F1 racer Carlos Reutemann dies at age 79. Retrieved on July 7, 2021 (English).
- ↑ 7 de Julio de 2021: Murió Carlos Reutemann. Retrieved July 7, 2021 (European Spanish).
- ^ Nigel Roebuck: Stars of Formula 1 Serag AG, Pfäffikon 1986, p. 148
- ^ Nigel Roebuck: Stars of Formula 1 Serag AG, Pfäffikon 1986, p. 143
- ↑ ewrc-results.com: Carlos Reutemann , accessed on March 15, 2015
- ↑ 20 De Febrero De 2015: Macri sumó a Reutemann, quien será candidato a senador por el PRO en Santa Fe. Retrieved October 7, 2019 (European Spanish).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Reutemann, Carlos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reutemann, Carlos Alberto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine racing car driver and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Fe |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 2021 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Santa Fe |