Talk:Ronnie Peterson

message: The article has two conflicting statements:
"He was trapped in the burning wreck, but Hunt, Regazzoni and Depailler managed to free him before he received more than minor burns, while track marshals were extinguishing the car. He was dragged free and laid in the middle of the track "
but also later on:
"Sid Watkins and his medical team headed over Peterson's car to extract him from the wreckage."
Who really helped Peterson out of his car?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.166.78.109 (talk) 18:16, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Inconsistencies?

message: 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.
I don´t think that the statement that RP would have survived if he had gotten medical attention sooner is correct, IF the cause of death was fat embolism. They are formed much later in the process, and 15 a 15 min delay of care would not have done any difference. Cd (talk) 17:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  His career and death 

message: 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)
replies: text: Bit of a necro-comment this (i.e. this is an old and dead conversation!), but Hunt was still laying into Patrese in his commentary as late at the 1992 South African Grand Prix. As I recall, Murray was rather embarrassed by the whole thing. 4u1e (talk) 10:38, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  James Hunt's comments re Riccardo Patrese 

message: This article seems to be written as a British racing commentator from the 1960's might've spoken it.  Unfortunately, to us Yanks, the third party references, passive voice, etc are very much out of style (as it were)(grins).  I cleaned out a bit of it.  
In addition, there is a real need to document the heck out of this article with footnotes.  There are many things in here that need citations.Twohlford 03:45, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: British English versus American English?

message: I merged part of the trivia info into the main body of the article.  The remaining needs citations, and really doesn't add to the article.  I'm voting that we kill off the rest of the trivia section.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Twohlford (talk • contribs) 01:01, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. I kept the part about the statue, and got shot of the rest since it seemed either irrelevant (in the case of Brixel's statue of Senna) or uncited (the flowers statement). That can go back in if someone finds a cite. Bretonbanquet (talk) 01:24, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Triva secion?

message: I know for a fact that as also the article states that he was married to ex model Barbro Edwardsson until his untimely death from injuries from the 1978 Italian Grand Prix. Out of curiosity, does anyone know whether Ronnie and Barbro had any children together?
Spokenwordsegment (talk) 12:55, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any Children? 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ronnie_Peterson&diff=prev&oldid=16243833
Do you really think so? I'm surprised... Formerly very active, now only occasional editor (talk) 18:11, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Numerous reliable sources including 8W, ChicaneF1, IMDb(!) and Alan Henry's Peterson biography "Superswede" all confirm Peterson's birth name as "Bengt Ronnie Peterson" (although some write it as "Bengt-Ronnie", i.e. with a hyphen). DH85868993 (talk) 21:48, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bengt? 

message: The picture of the statue of Ronnie Peterson in Örebro, by Richard Brixel has a tree growing out of the car.  It is a horrible shot and should be replaced.  Buy any standards the shot is awful.
-oo0(GoldTrader)0oo- (talk) 14:16, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand you haven't seen the statue and where it's placed. Unfortunately that's the best to make out of it. Today it's even been moved some meters so it's standing next to an electric post full of graffiti. The city is really making their best to humiliate Ronnie Peterson. In my opinion it should be moved to the roundabout at the university, which is also close to where Ronnie's grave is. Närking (talk) 17:21, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture has tree growing out of car

message: The lead states that Peterson started his F1 career with a 3-year spell with March factory team. This conflicts with the results table, which shows him driving privateer Marches in 1970, before driving for the works team in 1971 and 1972. DH85868993 (talk) 01:53, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed that yesterday when I was correcting his number of podiums, then it sailed out of my mind and I forgot it. Worth adjusting the wording, no? Bretonbanquet (talk) 19:55, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Alan Henry's Ronnie Peterson - SuperSwede indicates that Peterson was contracted to March Engineering, but an arrangement was reached whereby Colin Crabbe would run his car for the first year. So I'm not quite sure how the wording should be updated. DH85868993 (talk) 08:42, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Initial March career 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: An editor had proposed that the article Death of Ronnie Peterson (Draft:Death of Ronnie Peterson) be created. Intereseted editors are invited to respond to the proposal at Talk:1978 Italian Grand Prix.SSSB (talk) 08:15, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specific article on death