The Most Famous
RACING DRIVERS from Philippines
This page contains a list of the greatest Filipino Racing Drivers. The pantheon dataset contains 888 Racing Drivers, 1 of which were born in Philippines. This makes Philippines the birth place of the 45th most number of Racing Drivers behind Turkey and Morocco.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Filipino Racing Drivers of all time. This list of famous Filipino Racing Drivers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Tony Settember (1926 - 2014)
With an HPI of 42.36, Tony Settember is the most famous Filipino Racing Driver. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Anthony Frank Settember (July 10, 1926 – May 4, 2014) was a racing driver and engineer from the United States. He was born in Manila, Philippines. He participated in seven Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on July 21, 1962. He scored no championship points. Settember was the nominal head of the Scirocco racing team, and a very efficient driver in sportscars. In addition, he competed in the Trans-Am Series and attempted to qualify for the 1983 Winston Western 500 in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. His last known participation in motorsport was on his 70th birthday. Settember died after a short illness at a hospice in Reno, Nevada in May 2014.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as racing drivers born between 1926 and 1926. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased racing drivers include Tony Settember.
