RACING DRIVER

Didier Pironi

1952 - 1987

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Didier Joseph Louis Pironi (26 March 1952 – 23 August 1987) was a French racing driver and offshore powerboat racer, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1982. Pironi was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1982 with Ferrari, and won three Grands Prix across five seasons. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Didier Pironi has received more than 803,670 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Didier Pironi is the 44th most popular racing driver (up from 51st in 2019), the 1,253rd most popular biography from France (up from 1,412th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Racing Driver.

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  • 61.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Didier Pironi ranks 44 out of 1,080. Before him are Mika Häkkinen, Mike Hawthorn, Walter Röhrl, Denny Hulme, Jean Todt, and Phil Hill. After him are Ari Vatanen, Lorenzo Bandini, René Arnoux, Valentino Rossi, Jacques Laffite, and Stirling Moss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Didier Pironi ranks 55. Before him are Desireless, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Charles Scott Sherrington, George Papandreou, Umberto Tozzi, and Salam Fayyad. After him are Ari Vatanen, Mahamadou Issoufou, Ko Yong-hui, Uli Hoeneß, Maria Schneider, and George Strait. Among people deceased in 1987, Didier Pironi ranks 34. Before him are Jacques Anquetil, Jean Anouilh, Andrés Segovia, Joseph Campbell, Nobusuke Kishi, and Jaco Pastorius. After him are André Masson, Einar Gerhardsen, Douglas Sirk, Luis Federico Leloir, Peter Tosh, and Erskine Caldwell.

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In France

Among people born in France, Didier Pironi ranks 1,253 out of 6,770. Before him are Lúcio Costa (1902), Emmanuelle Béart (1963), Victor Noir (1848), Robert Badinter (1928), Anthony, Duke of Brabant (1384), and Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734). After him are Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples (1460), Élisabeth Borne (1961), Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (1393), Clément Ader (1841), Philipp Spener (1635), and Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In France

Among racing drivers born in France, Didier Pironi ranks 4. Before him are Alain Prost (1955), François Cevert (1944), and Jean Todt (1946). After him are René Arnoux (1948), Jacques Laffite (1943), Patrick Depailler (1944), Michèle Mouton (1951), Maurice Trintignant (1917), Patrick Tambay (1949), Jean Alesi (1964), and Jean-Louis Schlesser (1948).

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