{"id":136474,"date":"2025-09-14T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/136474\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:52:10","slug":"the-f1-title-winner-that-was-produced-with-an-entirely-different-plan-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/136474\/","title":{"rendered":"The F1 title winner that was produced with an entirely different plan in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By April of 1982, Keke Rosberg must have wondered \u2013 but could never have guessed \u2013 what was coming next. Thrust from lowly Fittipaldi into a prime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/williams\/36474\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Williams<\/a> seat as replacement for 1980 world champion Alan Jones, who had made a snap decision to walk away from Formula 1, life in a topline team was proving something of a soap opera for F1\u2019s first Flying Finn.<\/p>\n<p>There had been the drivers\u2019 strike he didn\u2019t particularly agree with, at his first race for the team in South Africa; a maiden podium at his second in Rio, which was then stripped away by disqualification 29 days later; a subsequent boycott of the San Marino Grand Prix. Oh, and amid all of that his illustrious 12 GPs-winning team-mate had upped sticks and stalked off without a backward glance after a messy DNF in Brazil. It was enough to make your moustache curl.<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By April of 1982, Keke Rosberg must have wondered \u2013 but could never have guessed \u2013 what was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,63711,56,54,55,2922],"class_list":["post-136474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-the-f1-title-winner-that-was-produced-with-an-entirely-different-plan-in-mind","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}