1982 F1 World Champion Keke Rosberg opened up on his recent health struggles and disappearance from the Formula 1 paddock.

As well as declining eyesight, Rosberg admitted that he has “hardly energy left” due to the impacts of long Covid, having left the F1 world behind and become “a hermit”.

Keke Rosberg: Long Covid impacts worsened by ‘isolation’

Rosberg reached the Formula 1 summit in 1982, winning his sole World Championship with Williams in a season which produced only one of Rosberg’s five grands prix wins.

Bowing out of Formula 1 after the 1986 campaign, Rosberg continued his racing career on the sportscar scene, and ended it driving for his own squad, ‘Team Rosberg’, for which Keke continues to serve as a team principal alongside his 2016 World Champion son Nico Rosberg and Arno

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