The Most Famous
RACING DRIVERS from Israel
This page contains a list of the greatest Israeli Racing Drivers. The pantheon dataset contains 888 Racing Drivers, 2 of which were born in Israel. This makes Israel the birth place of the 35th most number of Racing Drivers behind India and Egypt.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Israeli Racing Drivers of all time. This list of famous Israeli Racing Drivers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Chanoch Nissany (1963 - )
With an HPI of 38.26, Chanoch Nissany is the most famous Israeli Racing Driver. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Chanoch Nissany (Hebrew: חנוך ניסני; born 29 July 1963) is an Israeli-Hungarian real estate developer and auto racing driver. Nissany is the first Israeli racing driver to compete in some of the higher levels of the international racing sports, such as International Formula 3000 and World Series Lights. He is also the first Israeli who participated at a Formula One Grand Prix weekend, on his birthday, 29 July 2005, in the first free practice session of the 2005 Hungarian Grand Prix, when he drove at the Hungaroring as one of the official test drivers of the Minardi F1 Team. He was 6.8 seconds slower than teammate Christijan Albers in free practice at the event. After spinning the car, he was unable to take the steering wheel out of his Minardi so he was recovered with the car. Nissany is the main investor in the Balaton Park Circuit, a motorsports venue opened in 2023. His son, Roy Nissany, is also a racing driver.
2. Robert Shwartzman (1999 - )
With an HPI of 32.45, Robert Shwartzman is the 2nd most famous Israeli Racing Driver. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Robert Mikhailovich Shwartzman (Russian: Ро́берт Миха́йлович Шва́рцман, IPA: [ˈrobʲɪrt mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ˈʂvartsmən]; Hebrew: רוברט מיכאילוביץ' שוורצמן; born 16 September 1999) is a Russo-Israeli racing driver who currently competes in the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship driving for AF Corse. Shwartzman also serves as a reserve driver for the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One team. He previously competed in the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2020 and 2021 where he finished 4th and 2nd respectively. He was a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy, and is the 2018 Toyota Racing Series and 2019 FIA Formula 3 champion.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as racing drivers born between 1963 and 1999. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living racing drivers include Chanoch Nissany and Robert Shwartzman. As of April 2022, 1 new racing drivers have been added to Pantheon including Robert Shwartzman.
