RACING DRIVER

Eric Thompson

1919 - 2015

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Eric David Thompson (4 November 1919 – 22 August 2015) was a British racing driver, book dealer and insurance broker. He participated in sports car racing between 1949 and 1955 taking his greatest success by finishing third in the 1951 Les 24 Heures du Mans and took part in the 1952 RAC British Grand Prix. Thompson worked as a broker for Lloyd's of London. His racing career started in 1948, racing cars for HRG. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Thompson has received more than 1,223,776 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Eric Thompson is the 439th most popular racing driver (down from 374th in 2019), the 3,943rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,632nd in 2019) and the 70th most popular British Racing Driver.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Eric Thompson ranks 439 out of 1,080. Before him are Richard Attwood, Moisés Solana, Mário de Araújo Cabral, Héctor Rebaque, Eric van de Poele, and Jan Flinterman. After him are Adrian Sutil, Christian Danner, Ken Kavanagh, Brian Henton, Trevor Taylor, and Hubert Auriol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Eric Thompson ranks 273. Before him are Axel von dem Bussche, Lance Macklin, Leona Woods, Strother Martin, Jan Flinterman, and Annemarie Renger. After him are Jacques Laurent, Masao Takemoto, Joe Seneca, Kira Zvorykina, Aldo Campatelli, and Bahriye Üçok. Among people deceased in 2015, Eric Thompson ranks 344. Before him are Stein Eriksen, Richard Bass, Héctor Silva, Errol Brown, Andrei Eshpai, and Gerrit Voorting. After him are Héctor Salva, Dominique Dropsy, Nirmala Joshi, James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, Dave Mackay, and Nurlan Balgimbayev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eric Thompson ranks 3,943 out of 8,785. Before him are Jim Capaldi (1944), Gary Daniels (1963), Ælfric of Eynsham (955), Alec Jeffreys (1950), Murray Walker (1923), and Thomas Thomson (1817). After him are Lachlan Macquarie (1762), Albert Lee (1943), Thomas Picton (1758), Donald Nicol (1923), Thomas Love Peacock (1785), and Barry Foster (1931).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In United Kingdom

Among racing drivers born in United Kingdom, Eric Thompson ranks 70. Before him are Ivor Bueb (1923), Lance Macklin (1919), Leslie Johnson (1912), Tom Walkinshaw (1946), Ken Wharton (1916), and Richard Attwood (1940). After him are Brian Henton (1946), Trevor Taylor (1936), Brian Naylor (1923), Chris Lawrence (1933), Geoff Lees (1951), and Henry Taylor (1932).

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