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The grave of F1 legend Ronnie Peterson was desecrated last Sunday night by vandals along with several other tombstones in the cemetery of Almby in Örebro, Sweden.
According to reports in the Swedish press, the attack targeted random graves but the perpetrators - who have not been identified - devastated Peterson's tomb.
"The headstone was knocked over, only the Swedish flags are still there," said Peterson's daughter, Nina Kennedy. I'm shocked. Just terrible."
Local church leader Brita Wennsten told Sweden's Nerikes Allehanda: "It's just shameful. It had nothing to do with Peterson specifically. Everything indicates that the perpetrators acted indiscriminately."
A ten-time Grand Prix winner, Peterson - known as the SuperSwede - finished runner-up in the F1 world championship twice between 1970 and 1978.
Considered as one of the greatest talents of his generation, Peterson died from an embolism suffered in the aftermath of a fiery crash at the start of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in 1978.
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