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Bertil Roos
Born	12 October 1943
Died	31 March 2016 (aged 72)
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Swedish
Active years	1974
Teams	Shadow
Entries	1
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	1974 Swedish Grand Prix
Last entry	1974 Swedish Grand Prix

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Bertil Ingemar Roos^[1] (12 October 1943 – 31 March 2016)^[2] was a Swedish racing driver from Gothenburg. He participated in a single Formula One Grand Prix, his home race in 1974, from which he retired with transmission failure.

Career

Despite enjoying early promise in winning the US Formula Super Vee title in 1973, and also doing well in Formula 2 in Europe and Formula Atlantic in Canada, Roos only received one shot at Formula One. He and his team, Shadow, did not get on particularly well, and ultimately the team chose to work with Tom Pryce instead. Roos went back to the US and Canada, where he continued racing.

He was the senior driving instructor for the Fred Opert racing school in Pennsylvania, USA near Pocono Raceway,^[3] a business that he later purchased.

Still racing in the 1980s, Roos was a two-time Can-Am champion in the 2 liter and under category.^[4]

Roos died at Pocono Medical Center, East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania, on 31 March 2016.^[2]

Racing record

US Formula Super Vee

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
1973		TUI BH3	VW Brabham	LRP 1	WG1 1	ROL Ret	WG2 1	ROA Ret	POC 5	SIR	LS 6	RIV 3	1st	86
Source:^[5]^[6]^[7]

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

Year	Track	Car	Engine	Class	Finish	Start	Status
1987	Road Atlanta	Martini Mk. 47		Formula Atlantic	13	4	DNF

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	WDC	Points
1974	UOP Shadow Racing Team	Shadow DN3	Cosworth V8	ARG	BRA	RSA	ESP	BEL	MON	SWE Ret	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA	NC	0

References

^ "Motorsport Memorial - Bertil Roos". Motorsport Memorial. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b Jenkins, Richard. "The World Championship drivers - Where are they now?". OldRacingCars.com. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
^ Roos Racing Archived 19 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Auto Racing History Can-Am Champions". Archived from the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
^ "1973 SCCA Formula Super Vee Championship Bertil Roos - Champion". champcarstats.com. Champ Car Stats. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
^ "Bertil Roos Racing highlights". driverdb.com. Driver Data Base. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
^ "Formula Super Vee". autosport.com. Autosport. Archived from the original on 16 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.

External links

Obituary
Bertil Roos career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Bill Scott	US Formula Super Vee Champion 1973	Succeeded by Elliott Forbes-Robinson

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[1] "Motorsport Memorial - Bertil Roos". Motorsport Memorial. Retrieved 23 May 2024.

[WATN-2] Jenkins, Richard. "The World Championship drivers - Where are they now?". OldRacingCars.com. Retrieved 5 April 2016.

[3] Roos Racing Archived 19 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine

[4] "Auto Racing History Can-Am Champions". Archived from the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2010.

[5] "1973 SCCA Formula Super Vee Championship Bertil Roos - Champion". champcarstats.com. Champ Car Stats. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014. Retrieved 2 July 2021.

[6] "Bertil Roos Racing highlights". driverdb.com. Driver Data Base. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2021.

[7] "Formula Super Vee". autosport.com. Autosport. Archived from the original on 16 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.

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+| birth_date  = {{birth date|1943|10|12|df=y}}
+| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|03|31|1943|10|12|df=y}}
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+'''Bertil Ingemar Roos'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Motorsport Memorial - Bertil Roos |url=http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/LWFWIW/focusLWFWIW.php?db2=LWF&db=LWF&n=2338|access-date=23 May 2024 |website=Motorsport Memorial}}</ref> (12 October 1943 – 31 March 2016)<ref name="WATN">{{cite web |url=http://www.oldracingcars.com/driver/Bertil_Roos |title= The World Championship drivers - Where are they now? |accessdate=5 April 2016 |last=Jenkins |first=Richard |publisher=OldRacingCars.com}}</ref> was a Swedish [[racing driver]] from [[Gothenburg]]. He participated in a single [[Formula One]] Grand Prix, his home race in 1974, from which he retired with transmission failure.
+==Career==
-Despite enjoying early promise in winning the US [[Formula Super Vee]] title in 1973, and also doing well in [[Formula 2]] in Europe and [[Formula Atlantic]] in [[Canada]], Roos only received one shot at Formula One.  He and his team, [[Shadow Racing Cars|Shadow]], did not get on particularly well, and ultimately the team chose to work with [[Tom Pryce]] instead.  Roos went back to the USA and Canada, where he continued racing.
+Despite enjoying early promise in winning the US [[Formula Super Vee]] title in 1973, and also doing well in [[Formula 2]] in Europe and [[Formula Atlantic]] in [[Canada]], Roos only received one shot at Formula One.  He and his team, [[Shadow Racing Cars|Shadow]], did not get on particularly well, and ultimately the team chose to work with [[Tom Pryce]] instead.  Roos went back to the US and Canada, where he continued racing.
-In 1975, he created an eponymous [[racing school]] in Pennsylvania, USA near [[Pocono Raceway]].<ref>[http://www.racenow.com/a02_history.htm Roos Racing<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The school is accredited by the [[SCCA]] to be able to recommend graduates for race licenses at the regional and national levels.<ref>[http://www.racenow.com/a03_sccca.htm Roos Racing<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
+He was the senior driving instructor for the [[Fred Opert]] [[racing school]] in Pennsylvania, USA near [[Pocono Raceway]],<ref>[http://www.racenow.com/a02_history.htm Roos Racing<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070919063908/http://www.racenow.com/a02_history.htm |date=19 September 2007 }}</ref> a business that he later purchased.
-Still racing in the 1980s, Roos was a two-time [[Can-Am]] champion in the 2 liter and under category.<ref>http://www.deepthrottle.com/History/can_am_champs.shtml</ref>
+Still racing in the 1980s, Roos was a two-time [[Can-Am]] champion in the 2 liter and under category.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.deepthrottle.com/History/can_am_champs.shtml |title=Auto Racing History Can-Am Champions |accessdate=27 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626091915/http://www.deepthrottle.com/History/can_am_champs.shtml |archivedate=26 June 2009 }}</ref>
-{{-}}
+Roos died at Pocono Medical Center, East Stroudsburg [[Pennsylvania]], on 31 March 2016.<ref name="WATN"/>
 ==Racing record==
+===US Formula Super Vee===
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%"
+|-
+! Year
+! Team
+! Chassis
+! Engine
+! 1
+! 2
+! 3
+! 4
+! 5
+! 6
+! 7
+! 8
+! 9
+! Rank
+! Points
+|-
+| [[1973 SCCA Formula Super Vee season|1973]]
+!
+! TUI BH3
+! [[Volkswagen|VW]] [[Brabham]]
+|style="background:#FFFFBF;"| [[Lime Rock Park|LRP]]<br><small>1</small>
+|style="background:#FFFFBF;"| [[Watkins Glen International|WG1]]<br><small>1</small>
+|style="background:#EFCFFF;"| [[Road Atlanta|ROL]]<br><small>Ret</small>
+|style="background:#FFFFBF;"| '''[[Watkins Glen International|WG2]]'''<br><small>1</small>
+|style="background:#EFCFFF;"| [[Road America|ROA]]<br><small>Ret</small>
+|style="background:#DFFFDF;"| [[Pocono Raceway|POC]]<br><small>5</small>
+|| [[Pacific Raceways|SIR]]<br><small></small>
+|style="background:#CFEAFF;"| [[WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca|LS]]<br><small>6</small>
+|style="background:#FFDF9F;"| [[Riverside International Raceway|RIV]]<br><small>3</small>
+|style="background:#FFFFBF;"| '''1st'''
+|style="background:#FFFFBF;"| '''86'''
+|-
+!colspan="16"|{{center|{{small|Source:<ref>{{cite web |title=1973 SCCA Formula Super Vee Championship Bertil Roos - Champion |url=http://www.champcarstats.com/vee/year/1973.htm |website=champcarstats.com |publisher=Champ Car Stats |access-date=2 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104164007/http://www.champcarstats.com/vee/year/1973.htm |archive-date=4 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bertil Roos Racing highlights |url=https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/bertil-roos/ |website=driverdb.com |publisher=Driver Data Base |access-date=2 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112113217/https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/bertil-roos/ |archive-date=12 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Formula Super Vee |url=https://forums.autosport.com/topic/38270-formula-super-vee/ |website=autosport.com |publisher=Autosport |access-date=28 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616205430/https://forums.autosport.com/topic/38270-formula-super-vee/https://pbase.com/mwphoto0524/image/164998681 |archive-date=16 June 2021}}</ref>}}}}
+|}
 ===SCCA National Championship Runoffs===
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 | [[1974 Belgian Grand Prix|BEL]]
 | [[1974 Monaco Grand Prix|MON]]
-|style="background:#EFCFFF;"| [[1974 Swedish Grand Prix|SWE]]<br /><small>Ret</small>
+|style="background:#EFCFFF;"| [[1974 Swedish Grand Prix|SWE]]<br />{{small|Ret}}
 | [[1974 Dutch Grand Prix|NED]]
 | [[1974 French Grand Prix|FRA]]
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 {{Reflist}}
+==External links==
-{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
+*[http://www.bensing-thomasfuneralhome.com/obituaries/obituary-listings?obId=856543 Obituary]
-| NAME              = Roos, Bertil
+*{{DriverDB driver|bertil-roos}}
-| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
-| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Swedish racing driver
+{{S-start}}
-| DATE OF BIRTH     = October 12, 1943
+{{S-sports}}
-| PLACE OF BIRTH    =
+{{Succession box|title= US [[SCCA Formula Super Vee|Formula Super Vee]]<br>Champion |before=[[Bill Scott (racing driver)|Bill Scott]]|after=[[Elliott Forbes-Robinson]]|years=1973}}
-| DATE OF DEATH     =
+{{S-end}}
-| PLACE OF DEATH    =
-}}
 {{DEFAULTSORT:Roos, Bertil}}
 [[Category:1943 births]]
-[[Category:Living people]]
+[[Category:2016 deaths]]
 [[Category:Swedish racing drivers]]
 [[Category:Swedish Formula One drivers]]
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 [[Category:Atlantic Championship drivers]]
 [[Category:SCCA Formula Super Vee drivers]]
+[[Category:Formula Super Vee Champions]]
+[[Category:SCCA National Championship Runoffs participants]]
+[[Category:Sportspeople from Gothenburg]]