Carlos Alberto "Lole" Reutemann was an Argentine racing driver who raced in Formula One from 1972 to 1982, and later became a politician in his native province of Santa Fe, for the Justicialist Party, and governor of Santa Fe in Argentina.
41 Facts About Carlos Reutemann
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Carlos Reutemann scored 12 Grand Prix wins and six pole positions.
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Carlos Reutemann finished in third overall three times for three separate teams, 1975 for Brabham, 1978 for Ferrari, and 1980 for Williams.
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Carlos Reutemann finished third, just behind Peterson, who had died in an accident at Monza earlier that autumn.
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In 1981, Carlos Reutemann instead relied on consistency, but narrowly lost out to Nelson Piquet for the title.
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Carlos Reutemann became the second Formula One driver after Leo Kinnunen to be at the podium of a World Rally Championship event, when he finished third in the 1980 and 1985 editions of Rally Argentina.
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Carlos Reutemann was for three decades the only Formula One driver to score drivers' championship points in both F1 and WRC, until Kimi Raikkonen's eighth place at the 2010 Jordan Rally.
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Carlos Reutemann died in a medical facility in Santa Fe, Argentina, on 7 July 2021 after suffering from issues relating to a haemorrhage as well as other health issues.
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Carlos Reutemann first raced in 1965 in a Fiat saloon car.
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Carlos Reutemann immediately received attention when he took out Austrian Formula One driver Jochen Rindt on the first lap of his first race at Hockenheim, but carried on to finish fourth.
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Brabham F1 team boss Bernie Ecclestone signed Carlos Reutemann to drive alongside veteran and two-time World Champion Graham Hill for the 1972 season.
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Carlos Reutemann finished the race in seventh after having to pit to replace his soft tyres, and the main highlight for the rest of the year was his win in the non-championship Interlagos Grand Prix.
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Carlos Reutemann might have won the first race of the year in Argentina, too, but the Brabham team apparently failed to properly fuel his car and he ran out of fuel with less than two laps to go while safely in the lead.
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Lauda's unexpected speedy recovery resulted in Carlos Reutemann racing only once for the team, in a third car at Monza, and then sitting out for the final three races.
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When Lauda moved to Brabham in 1978, Carlos Reutemann became the senior member of the Ferrari team, joined by the young Canadian Gilles Villeneuve.
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Carlos Reutemann used the 312T2B to win in Brazil, and a 312T3 to win in Britain and twice in the United States.
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However, the Lotus team was dominant once their new 79 was introduced at Monaco, and Carlos Reutemann finished a close third in the points standings behind Andretti and Peterson.
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Carlos Reutemann had a huge accident at the Spanish Grand Prix after a tyre failure and a collision with Jacques Laffite sent his Ferrari into the air, clearing the Armco barrier and landing in the debris fencing.
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Carlos Reutemann leaving Ferrari for Lotus for the 1979 season was poorly timed because with the introduction of the model 312T4, Ferrari was able to make a big comeback and place its drivers in 1st and 2nd place in the final standings of the season.
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Carlos Reutemann got out of the car, took off his helmet, sat down next to his car, and burst into tears in full view of cameras broadcasting the race worldwide and in front of the 80,000 spectators at the track.
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Jones never forgave this act of disobedience on the part of his teammate, while Carlos Reutemann felt frustrated at Jones' refusal to acknowledge his help, especially after having just given him the victory at the Long Beach.
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Carlos Reutemann continued to score more points than Jones throughout the remainder of the season, and the Brazilian victory helped put him in a position to challenge for the title in a three-way battle with Nelson Piquet and Jacques Laffite at the season-ending race in Las Vegas.
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In what was probably a defining moment of the season, Carlos Reutemann was ordered in Germany to turn over his unit to teammate Jones for the race due to the latter's car failure and had to race with the third unit of the team.
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Carlos Reutemann arrived in Las Vegas with a one-point lead in the championship over Brazilian Nelson Piquet.
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Carlos Reutemann began the race from pole position, ahead of Jones, who had vowed not to provide any "help" in Reutemann's quest, while Piquet was fourth.
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At the start, Jones jumped into the lead and Carlos Reutemann was quickly passed by Villeneuve, Alain Prost, and Bruno Giacomelli.
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Carlos Reutemann continued to slip backwards with gearbox trouble, having lost fourth gear as early as lap two.
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Carlos Reutemann finished the race in eighth, a lap down, and the title went to Piquet.
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Meanwhile, if that year's season opener, in South Africa, which had been run as a Formula Libre race and one which Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Renault, and Ligier didn't attend, had been a race with World Championship points awarded, Carlos Reutemann would have been World Champion with 58 points against Piquet's 56.
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Carlos Reutemann returned with Williams for 1982, finishing second in the South Africa, the only Cosworth-engined runner able to take the fight to the much more powerful turbo-engined Renaults.
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The Falklands War generated a tense political period between Argentina and the United Kingdom, and Carlos Reutemann chose to distance himself from the team and retire after the Brazilian race.
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In 2016, in an academic paper that reported a mathematical modeling study that assessed the relative influence of driver and machine, Carlos Reutemann was ranked the 27th best Formula One driver of all time.
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Carlos Reutemann was approached by Fiat during the 1980 F1 season with an offer to drive a Fiat 131 in the inaugural 1980 Codasur Rally, where he finished in third place.
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Carlos Reutemann won the election and ran the province for one four-year term.
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Carlos Reutemann finally presented himself for the 2003 general election and won a seat in the National Senate.
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Carlos Reutemann declined to run for governor of Santa Fe again in the 2007 elections.
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On 1 January 2006 Carlos Reutemann was named Commendatore della Repubblica by President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
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Carlos Reutemann was re-elected to the Senate both in 2009 and 2015, when he formed part of the Cambiemos alliance nationally and supported Mauricio Macri in the presidential election.
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Carlos Reutemann died in office, so Maria Alejandra Vucasovich replaced him for the remainder of his term.
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Carlos Reutemann suffered an intestinal haemorrhage in May 2021, and was hospitalized.
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Carlos Reutemann's condition worsened, and he suffered from anaemia, dehydration, hypoalbuminemia, haemodynamic instability, very rapid weight loss.