The Most Famous
RACING DRIVERS from Chile
This page contains a list of the greatest Chilean Racing Drivers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,080 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 (b. 1954)
With an HPI of 48.85, Eliseo Salazar is the most famous Chilean Racing Driver. His biography has been translated into 22 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, who competed in Formula One from 1981 to 1983. Salazar remains the only Chilean driver to compete in Formula One. Salazar made his Formula One debut at the 1981 United States Grand Prix West, scoring a total of three championship points across 37 Grands Prix. After Formula One, Salazar participated in several motorsport disciplines, becoming the Chilean national rally champion in 1984 and 1985. Across a three-decade career, Salazar also competed in American open-wheel racing and sportscar racing.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Chilean racing drivers born between 1954 and 1954. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Chilean racing drivers include Eliseo Salazar.
