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RACING DRIVER

Elio de Angelis

1958 - 1986

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Elio de Angelis (26 March 1958 – 15 May 1986) was an Italian racing driver who participated in Formula One between 1979 and 1986, racing for the Shadow, Lotus and Brabham teams. He was killed in an accident while testing the Brabham BT55 at the Paul Ricard circuit, near the commune of Le Castellet, France, in 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elio de Angelis has received more than 520,033 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Elio de Angelis is the 92nd most popular racing driver (down from 86th in 2019), the 1,810th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,805th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Italian Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Elio de Angelis ranks 92 out of 888Before him are Sébastien Loeb, Jacques Villeneuve, Luigi Musso, Luigi Fagioli, Tom Pryce, and Jean-Pierre Beltoise. After him are Patrick Tambay, Lucien Bianchi, Björn Waldegård, Ángel Nieto, David Purley, and Thierry Sabine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Elio de Angelis ranks 49Before him are Angela Bassett, Giancarlo Esposito, Quique Setién, Madeleine Stowe, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, and Lorenzo Lamas. After him are Gian Piero Gasperini, Javier Aguirre, Holly Hunter, Kais Saied, Steve Guttenberg, and Adrian Newey. Among people deceased in 1986, Elio de Angelis ranks 75Before him are Alfredo Binda, Arthur Grumiaux, Lyudmila Rudenko, Gia Carangi, Omar Ali Saifuddien III, and Bernard Malamud. After him are Alexandre Tansman, Christopher Isherwood, Thierry Sabine, Ferdinand Daučík, Aleksandr Akimov, and Pierre Fournier.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Elio de Angelis ranks 1,810 out of 4,668Before him are Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1629), Tonino Guerra (1920), Galileo Ferraris (1847), Corax of Syracuse (-500), Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus (-180), and Giuditta Pasta (1797). After him are Ettore Bastico (1876), Lucius Licinius Crassus (-140), Gian Piero Gasperini (1958), Senesino (1686), Louis, King of Sicily (1338), and Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613).

Among RACING DRIVERS In Italy

Among racing drivers born in Italy, Elio de Angelis ranks 15Before him are Maria Teresa de Filippis (1926), Michele Alboreto (1956), Vittorio Brambilla (1937), Arturo Merzario (1943), Luigi Musso (1924), and Luigi Fagioli (1898). After him are Lucien Bianchi (1934), Ludovico Scarfiotti (1933), Andrea de Cesaris (1959), Piero Taruffi (1906), Ignazio Giunti (1941), and Giancarlo Fisichella (1973).