{"id":494481,"date":"2015-06-01T00:04:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T00:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=9788"},"modified":"2023-12-31T20:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T20:22:25","slug":"super-swede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/super-swede\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Swede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HD201506-p1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-713293 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HD201506-p1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"897\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HD201506-p1-1.jpg 897w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HD201506-p1-1-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HD201506-p1-1-850x1024.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HD201506-p1-1-83x100.jpg 83w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HD201506-p1-1-770x927.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HD201506-p1-1-293x353.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\" \/><\/a>Since this month\u2019s Profile car is the March 761 with which Ronnie Peterson won the 1976 Italian Grand Prix, it seemed a good opportunity to visit the Super Swede\u2019s official web site. Like the man himself, it is unpretentious and uncomplicated, but occasionally suffers just a bit in translation. Not that it matters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All that aside, the site opens with the \u201cBiography\u201d page where we learn not just about Ronnie but his father Bengt\u2014source of his son\u2019s speed genes it seems\u2014and the rest of the family while tracing Ronnie\u2019s path from birth to Formula One.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next link waiting on the upper left corner of the page is \u201cRonnie &amp; Barbro,\u201d where their story of romance begins in 1969 and flourishes through the \u201970s, but then turns tragic. Next on the list is \u201cVoices about Ronnie,\u201d where his contemporaries in F1 assess their friend and teammate, followed by \u201cMemorial Exhibition,\u201d which looks at how his hometown of Orebro has commemorated its lost son.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last link is \u201cThe Final Grand Prix,\u201d which needs little explanation, but it does provide deep insight to the entire weekend at Monza 1978, and follows through to its ultimate conclusion. As noted, you\u2019ll need to accommodate the occasional translation glitch, but for anyone with a appreciation of Ronnie Peterson, this is a place to learn more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronniepeterson.se\/subc\/eng\/orframe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.ronniepeterson.se\/subc\/eng\/orframe.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since this month\u2019s Profile car is the March 761 with which Ronnie Peterson won the 1976 Italian Grand Prix, it seemed a good opportunity to visit the Super Swede\u2019s official web site. Like the man himself, it is unpretentious and uncomplicated, but occasionally suffers just a bit in translation. Not that it matters. All that aside, the site opens with the \u201cBiography\u201d page where we learn not just about Ronnie but his father Bengt\u2014source of his son\u2019s speed genes it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":713292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[17152,17164],"class_list":["post-494481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","tag-car-culture","tag-websites-we-love"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Super Swede<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Super Swede\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/super-swede\/\" 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