The Most Famous
RACING DRIVERS from Chile
This page contains a list of the greatest Chilean Racing Drivers. The pantheon dataset contains 888 Racing Drivers, 1 of which were born in Chile. This makes Chile the birth place of the 42nd most number of Racing Drivers behind Luxembourg and Zimbabwe.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chilean Racing Drivers of all time. This list of famous Chilean Racing Drivers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Eliseo Salazar (1954 - )
With an HPI of 47.79, Eliseo Salazar is the most famous Chilean Racing Driver. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Eliseo Salazar Valenzuela (Spanish pronunciation: [e.liˈse.o sa.laˈsaɾ ba.lẽnˈswe.la]; born 14 November 1954) is a Chilean former racing driver. As of 2024, he is the only Chilean to have participated in a Formula One World Championship. He made his Formula One debut on 15 March 1981, and ultimately contested 37 races scoring a total of three championship points. After Formula One, Salazar has participated in numerous motorsport disciplines, including the Chilean national rally championship (Champion 1984 and 1985), Formula 3000, IndyCar (including the Indianapolis 500 race seven times), and the World Sportscar Championship.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as racing drivers born between 1954 and 1954. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living racing drivers include Eliseo Salazar.
