Ronnie Peterson

[Galileo]

I'm a bit of a 70s F1 geak and have lots of pictures around the place of various cars.

One of my favourites is the Lotus 72 and have several pictures of Ronnie Peterson at the wheel.

A couple of pictures show Peterson in 1974 running the Lotus72 and Lotus76 with the number 1 on it.

Im convinced that he never won the F1 title so can anyone tell me why he ran number one on, what I can gather, was several occasions?

I've googled the question is various ways, but to no avail.

Any ideas?

It's probably a simple and boring reason, but an 'itch that needs scratching'

Many thanks,


Below; Lotus 76
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Below; Lotus 72
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[FourWheelDrift]

1974 is the first season they had fixed numbers for the teams, the world champion would take the number 1 but since Jackie Stewart had retired the number 1 went to the constructors champions Lotus, so they had 1 and 2 that year and it didn't matter which one had which.

[anonymous-user]

For 1974 numbers were awarded in pairs according to finishing order in the Constructors’ Championship in ‘73. Lotus won that in ‘73 so got 1 and 2.

After that numbers didn’t move except for the 1 and 2 which moved with the Champion Driver.

Fittipaldi would probably have run 1 but he went off to McLaren. Petersen was senior driver for ‘74 so got 1.

[Mr_Thyroid]

Have any other drivers, apart from Damon, run number zero?

[FourWheelDrift]

Mr_Thyroid said:

Have any other drivers, apart from Damon, run number zero?

Jody Scheckter on his Yardley McLaren for the last 2 races (Mosport & Watkins Glen) of the 1973 season as that was the number he had run in the Can Am championship. 73 was the last year of numbers that could change from race to race.

[Galileo]

Many thanks.

[CanAm]

Mr_Thyroid said:

Have any other drivers, apart from Damon, run number zero?

Not F1, but Graham Hill and Richie Ginther ran 00 on the Rover-BRM at LeMans in 1963.

[FourWheelDrift]

CanAm said:

Mr_Thyroid said:

Have any other drivers, apart from Damon, run number zero?

Not F1, but Graham Hill and Richie Ginther ran 00 on the Rover-BRM at LeMans in 1963.

See my post above.

[CanAm]

FourWheelDrift said:

See my post above.

Sorry, I didn't mean that nobody had run 0 in F1, but that the Rover-BRM 00 was in sports cars rather than in F1. Badly phrased by me.

[FourWheelDrift]

Ah..

I wonder if someone else might have as well, one of the 3rd or even 4th drivers they used to have that did the odd race in a year.

Just Damon & Jody, all F1 numbers - http://www.statsf1.com/en/statistiques/numero/pilo...



Ps. Lella Lombardi number 208 in 1974 is the highest number ever used - http://www.statsf1.com/en/statistiques/numero/pilo...

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Edited by FourWheelDrift on Friday 4th January 17:51