RACING DRIVER

Eugenio Castellotti

1930 - 1957

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Eugenio Castellotti (10 October 1930 – 14 March 1957) was a racing driver from Italy. He won the 1956 Mille Miglia and 1956 12 Hours of Sebring, and took several Formula One World Championship podiums. His career was cut short by a fatal testing accident at Modena in 1957. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugenio Castellotti has received more than 193,507 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Eugenio Castellotti is the 97th most popular racing driver (up from 159th in 2019), the 2,005th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,443rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Italian Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Eugenio Castellotti ranks 97 out of 1,080Before him are Ángel Nieto, Luigi Fagioli, Juha Kankkunen, Piero Taruffi, Ken Block, and Guy Ligier. After him are Thierry Sabine, Roger Williamson, Pedro Rodríguez, Jean Behra, Jean-Pierre Jarier, and Henri Toivonen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Eugenio Castellotti ranks 142Before him are Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Frank Lucas, Dündar Ali Osman, Guy Ligier, and James Baker. After him are Bernard Collomb, Tanya Savicheva, Stephen Sondheim, Philippe Leroy, Stephen Smale, and Tony Lip. Among people deceased in 1957, Eugenio Castellotti ranks 79Before him are Malcolm Lowry, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Josef Hofmann, Zhou Xuan, Washington Luís, and Josef Lada. After him are Shūmei Ōkawa, Irving Baxter, Hasui Kawase, Álvaro Gestido, Rudolf Schmidt, and Sholem Asch.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Eugenio Castellotti ranks 2,005 out of 5,161Before him are Giuseppe Siri (1906), Francesco Algarotti (1712), Alfredo Foni (1911), Antipope Callixtus III (null), Bobby Solo (1945), and Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria (1839). After him are Aripert II (680), Carlo Mazzone (1937), Leonello d'Este (1407), Enrico Albertosi (1939), Antonio Cabrini (1957), and Pietro Nardini (1722).

Among RACING DRIVERS In Italy

Among racing drivers born in Italy, Eugenio Castellotti ranks 18Before him are Lucien Bianchi (1934), Arturo Merzario (1943), Vittorio Brambilla (1937), Elio de Angelis (1958), Luigi Fagioli (1898), and Piero Taruffi (1906). After him are Andrea de Cesaris (1959), Ludovico Scarfiotti (1933), Luigi Musso (1924), Alberto Colombo (1946), Geki (1937), and Giancarlo Fisichella (1973).