He was one of the guys me and my friends pretended to be when we were small kids (~first graders). Alongside Niki Lauda, Mario Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi, Ronnie Petterson, Jody Scheckter (because he was driving the six-wheeler),....
Strangely the older I get, the less attention I pay to F1. I barely know who won was the overall champion in the last ~5 years...