Talk:Ronnie Peterson
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Re the clean up tag: I don't know in what way the article needs to be cleaned up I think it looks good. --Fred-Chess July 5, 2005 02:08 (UTC)
- I've tidied up the English, broken this into sections, and provided wiki links. I think this is probably what the cleanup was looking for. NickF 6 July 2005 19:33 (UTC)
[edit] His career and death
Right now I think that the text about Peterson's death is too long compared with the text about his career. I will try to write a little more about the career.
[edit] His surname is "Pettersson", not "Peterson"
Ronnie Peterson - complete name: Bengt Ronnie Pettersson. Source for "Pettersson" is Paul Sheldon "Formula 1 Register Record Book 1966", p. 140, I quote: "... an excellent entry including the young Ronnie Pettersson - it was only later that he adopted the English spelling of his name."
So his name is Pettersson (i.e. usual Swedish spelling), nothing else.
- I don't think so. As far as I know he was actually born Peterson. It's odd, but it's not that odd.
- However, I'm a bit skeptic to "Ronnie Peterson married former top model Barbro Edwardsson". I thought she was an ordinary secretary that he met in his hometown. It is of course possible that she had done some modeling, but I don't think top model is correct. 83.248.26.40 10:35, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] James Hunt's comments re Riccardo Patrese
I am concerned that the comments attributed to James Hunt in regard of Riccardo Patrese are subjective at best, and add little if anything to the content in repect of Peterson's death.
To clarify, I concur that Hunt (and others) did condemn Patrese for his alleged part in the accident contributing to Peterson's injuries, but the further comment that Hunt engaged in "bitter diatribe" against Patrese as a commentator, is, in my subjective opinion, unfounded.
It is true that Hunt was not shy about mentioning the incident, and indeed apportioning blame, but over the years his opinion certainly mellowed, and (I cannot give an example citation) he came to be of the opinion that even if the accident was Patrese's "fault" (and I believe that he was persuaded over time otherwise) that Peterson's death certainly was not.
--62.64.236.17 21:03, 16 July 2006 (UTC) Dave Wright
In the recently published book "Memories Of James Hunt" by Christopher Hilton, one of Hunt's broadcasting colleagues had this to say :
"After years of being a commentator James discovered the Press Room. He came to me after one race and said 'this is amazing. Do you know they produce lap times for everybody's laps throughout the entire race?' I said 'Yes, I've been picking them up for years James'. He said 'apparently, there's a place called the Press Room where I can get all this stuff. I shall have to send someone up there to get it for me of course.' He said 'you know, this is absolutely fantastic because now I can prove Patrese's useless rather than just tell everybody' ". I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions about Hunt's 'vendetta' against Patrese. Lec CRP1 11:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
