05/23/2021 10:55 AM
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 05/23/2021 11:00
The national senator for Santa Fe and former Formula 1 driver, Carlos Reutemann, who was hospitalized in recent weeks due to a digestive hemorrhage, followed this Sunday from his home the actions of the Monaco Grand Prix, the jewel of the calendar of the maximum category that knew how to see him as a winner far back in 1980, when he was one of the main animators of the discipline.
"Dad enjoying the Monaco Grand Prix,"
wrote Mariana, one of his daughters on her Twitter account, through a post in which Lole is seen, in an armchair with a blanket and accompanied by her pet, following the actions of the race that runs through the streets of the Principality.
Both Mariana and Cora, Lole's other heiress, have been reporting in recent days about their father's health through emotional posts.
Pope Enjoying The Monaco Grand Prix 🇲🇨🏁🙌 pic.twitter.com/6lZRKNl0ID
- Mariana Reutemann (@matreutemann) May 23, 2021
Reutemann, 79, had been discharged last Friday after being hospitalized for 16 days due to bleeding from which he recovered after surgery.
This was confirmed by Dr. Juan José Boretti, medical director of the Sanatorio Parque de Rosario, where the former Formula One driver was hospitalized since May 8 after being transferred from a clinic in the city of Santa Fe.
Reutemann, twice governor of the province of Santa Fe, suffered a digestive hemorrhage that led him to go into hospital on his own on May 5.
Three days later he was transferred to a medical institution in Rosario where he was operated on on the 12th of this month, after undergoing an enteroscopy, a procedure used to observe the inside of the small intestine.
As reported by the head of the Sanatorio Parque, Roberto Villavicencio, this study made it possible to determine the exact place where the bleeding that caused the hemorrhage occurred and, thus, intervene.
Champion Home !!!
❤️ pic.twitter.com/GdDIzDDpxS
- Mariana Reutemann (@matreutemann) May 21, 2021
Reutemann's unforgettable victory in Monaco
This week marks the 41st anniversary of the day Reutemann entered the category's big history by winning with Williams on the glamorous street circuit.
On May 18, 1980, the Santa Fe won the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix in a Williams, driving in the rain.
Reutemann started from the guard position in a bumpy start, due to the dismissal of the Irish Derek Daly (Tyrrell), who was quickly out of the race, flying over Jean Pierre Jarier (Tyrrell), Alain Prost (McLaren) and Bruno Giacomelli ( Alfa Romeo).
The second driver of the British team, at that time financed with Saudi capital, was expectant in third place.
"Passing (Didier) Pironi and (Alan) Jones would have been crazy. On this circuit, it is impossible. I also had the feeling that Pironi was not making the most of himself. I saw Alan looking for him everywhere and he could not pass him" He told the magazine "El Gráfico" after his triumph.
The day that Carlos Reutemann was Prince of Monaco.
With the calm that always characterized the Argentine pilot, Lole had a clear strategy: he took the race with caution and began to advance due to the misfortune of others.
So much so that he became second when Jones left because of the broken differential on his Williams.
The Frenchman Pironi's Ligier seemed to be heading for the second consecutive joy (he had just won in Belgium), but the rain, an involuntary protagonist, gave another denouement to the story.
As the vehicles passed by lap 55, Pironi felt that dreamed victory slip through his hands when he hit the guard-rail at the exit of the Casino curve.
"He skidded in the rain," explained Reutemann, who handled the last 20 laps with extreme care.
The man from Santa Fe drove the race at will to win decisively on a very special circuit, despite some problems that his car began to manifest in the final part.
The day that Carlos Reutemann was Prince of Monaco.
“The second and third gears weren't going well.
The left rear tire began to deflate and the car was slightly off balance.
Laffitte was coming a long way, so he wasn't going to stop to change the tires in any way.
I knew that three-quarters of the race had passed and that the organizers should stop it if it rained harder, ”said Reutemann.
The victory came after 115 minutes of sober driving, for the emotional account of Héctor Acosta from Cordoba, the journalist who narrated the alternatives of the test for an incipient Argentina Televisora Color, the state signal that transmitted Formula 1 in those years.
Again in the Race !!! 💪❤️🏆 pic.twitter.com/QC2QS3y8uq
- Mariana Reutemann (@matreutemann) May 18, 2021
The Santa Fe alone ascended to the Monegasque podium, since at that time only the winner had access to the stage, where he was crowned by His Highness, Prince Rainier, and his wife, Princess Grace Kelly.
"I feel like this was a late rematch. Maybe too late," he lamented.