http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2008/08/10/100-f1-race-winners-part-6-1974-1977/ F1 Fanatic - The Formula 1 Blog with F1 news, pictures, video, comment and analysis Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:24:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2008/08/10/100-f1-race-winners-part-6-1974-1977/comment-page-1/#comment-188146 qazuhb Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:02:08 +0000 http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/?p=8240#comment-188146 After his only win at Zolder, Gunnar Nilsson did a series of poor qualifying efforts in the remainder of the '77 season, but it was largely unbeknownst that this was a consequence of his cancerous condition. He was unable to retain his position at Lotus, but signed for Arrows for the '78 season, altought he was unable to drive even a single race. He lived enough, however, to see the death of fellow Swede, close friend and own Lotus' seat replacement Ronnie Peterson. He died in October 1978. See http://grandprix.com/gpe/drv-nilgun.html http://thespeedblog.com/racers-past-gunnar-nilsson-1948-1978/ After his only win at Zolder, Gunnar Nilsson did a series of poor qualifying efforts in the remainder of the ’77 season, but it was largely unbeknownst that this was a consequence of his cancerous condition. He was unable to retain his position at Lotus, but signed for Arrows for the ’78 season, altought he was unable to drive even a single race. He lived enough, however, to see the death of fellow Swede, close friend and own Lotus’ seat replacement Ronnie Peterson. He died in October 1978. See
http://grandprix.com/gpe/drv-nilgun.html
http://thespeedblog.com/racers-past-gunnar-nilsson-1948-1978/

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