Rosberg newcomer to team
NZPA-Reuter London
Carlos Reutemann, of Argentina, will be the No.l driver for the Williams Formula One team.in the 1982 Grand Prix motor racing season.
Reutemann, runner-up to Brazil’s Nelson Piquet in this year’s world drivers’ championship, moves up from N 0.2 to replace the Australian, Alan Jones, who has retired.
He will team up with Finland’s Keke Rosberg, who has priviously driven for Theodore, A. T. S. Wolf and Fittipaldi. Rosberg won the New Zealand Formula Pacific series in 1977 and 1978.
Announcing the line-up for next season, Mr Frank Williams said: “We are most encouraged that Carlos has decided not to retire after all and to continue with the team for a third year.
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Press, 19 December 1981, Page 64
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