RACING DRIVER

John Nicholson

1941 - 2017

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John Barry Nicholson (6 October 1941 – 19 September 2017) was a racing driver from Auckland, New Zealand. He participated in two Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 20 July 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Nicholson has received more than 35,689 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). John Nicholson is the 533rd most popular racing driver (down from 392nd in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 56th in 2019) and the 5th most popular New Zealander Racing Driver.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, John Nicholson ranks 533 out of 1,080. Before him are Ernst Klodwig, Joachim Winkelhock, Dennis Poore, Lloyd Ruby, Norifumi Abe, and Massimo Natili. After him are Alex Caffi, Geoffrey Crossley, François Mazet, Werner Haas, Peter Arundell, and Luigi Piotti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, John Nicholson ranks 526. Before him are Uta Frith, Jared Martin, Christopher Connelly, Nambi Narayanan, John C. Malone, and Wolfgang Fahrian. After him are Jürgen Nöldner, Kaarlo Kangasniemi, Long John Baldry, Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Péter Balázs, and Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Among people deceased in 2017, John Nicholson ranks 466. Before him are Horacio Guarany, Stefano Rodotà, Valeriu Bularca, Roberto Cabañas, Dieter Kottysch, and Massimo Natili. After him are Walter Lassally, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Molly Peters, William H. Keeler, Roberta Peters, and Erika Böhm-Vitense.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, John Nicholson ranks 73 out of 303. Before him are Andrew Adamson (1966), Hugh Walpole (1884), John Gorton (1911), Silvia Cartwright (1943), Margaret Mahy (1936), and Neil Finn (1958). After him are Lawrence Makoare (1968), Te Atairangikaahu (1931), Peter Hambleton (1960), David Lange (1942), Melanie Lynskey (1977), and Geoff Murphy (1938).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In New Zealand

Among racing drivers born in New Zealand, John Nicholson ranks 5. Before him are Bruce McLaren (1937), Denny Hulme (1936), Chris Amon (1943), and Howden Ganley (1941). After him are Graham McRae (1940), Mike Thackwell (1961), Liam Lawson (2002), Brendon Hartley (1989), Tony Shelly (1937), Hayden Paddon (1987), and Mitch Evans (1994).

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