The Most Famous
RACING DRIVERS from Monaco
This page contains a list of the greatest Monegasque Racing Drivers. The pantheon dataset contains 888 Racing Drivers, 3 of which were born in Monaco. This makes Monaco the birth place of the 30th most number of Racing Drivers behind Norway and Estonia.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Monegasque Racing Drivers of all time. This list of famous Monegasque Racing Drivers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Louis Chiron (1899 - 1979)
With an HPI of 60.47, Louis Chiron is the most famous Monegasque Racing Driver. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Louis Alexandre Chiron (French pronunciation: [lwi ʃi.ʁɔ̃]; 3 August 1899 – 22 June 1979) was a Monégasque racing driver who competed in rallies, sports car races, and Grands Prix. Among the greatest drivers between the two World Wars, his career embraced over thirty years, starting in 1923, and ending at the end of the 1950s. He is still the oldest driver ever to have started a race in the Formula One World Championship, having taken 6th place in the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix when he was 55. Three years later he became the oldest driver to enter a Formula One race, at 58. The Bugatti Chiron takes its name from him. As of 2024, he is the only Monegasque driver to have won the Monaco Grand Prix.
2. Charles Leclerc (1997 - )
With an HPI of 46.89, Charles Leclerc is the 2nd most famous Monegasque Racing Driver. His biography has been translated into 49 different languages.
Charles Marc Hervé Perceval Leclerc (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ləklɛʁ]; born 16 October 1997) is a Monégasque racing driver, currently racing in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari. He won the GP3 Series championship in 2016 and the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2017. Leclerc made his Formula One debut in 2018 for Sauber, a team affiliated with Ferrari, for which he was part of the Ferrari Driver Academy. With Sauber having finished last the year before, Leclerc led the charge to improve its finishing position in the Constructors' Championship to eighth, and was the higher ranked of the two Sauber drivers. He joined Ferrari the next season and became the second-youngest driver to qualify on pole position in Formula One at the 2019 Bahrain Grand Prix. The 2019 season also saw Leclerc take his first career win in Belgium. He won the FIA Pole Trophy for most pole positions in the 2019 season, becoming the youngest driver to win it, before winning it again in 2022. Leclerc finished runner-up to Max Verstappen in the 2022 World Drivers' Championship. Leclerc has won 5 races and attained 23 pole positions in Formula One. He scored the first grand slam of his career at the 2022 Australian Grand Prix. Leclerc is set to remain at Ferrari until at least the end of the 2026 season.
3. Olivier Beretta (1969 - )
With an HPI of 42.35, Olivier Beretta is the 3rd most famous Monegasque Racing Driver. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages.
Olivier Henri Aldo Léopold Beretta (born 23 November 1969) is a professional racing driver from Monaco who raced in Formula One in 1994 for the Larrousse team, partnering Érik Comas. He participated in 10 Grands Prix, debuting on 27 March 1994. He scored no championship points, and was replaced when his sponsorship money ran out. During 2003 and 2004, he tested for the Williams team.
Pantheon has 3 people classified as racing drivers born between 1899 and 1997. Of these 3, 2 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living racing drivers include Charles Leclerc and Olivier Beretta. The most famous deceased racing drivers include Louis Chiron.
