RACING DRIVER

Johnny Cecotto

1956 - Today

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Johnny Alberto Cecotto Persello (born 25 January 1956), better known as Johnny Cecotto, is a Venezuelan former professional Grand Prix motorcycle racer and auto racer. He rose to prominence as a teenage prodigy in 1975 when he became the youngest motorcycle road racing world champion at the age of 19. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johnny Cecotto has received more than 238,170 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Johnny Cecotto is the 164th most popular racing driver (up from 167th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Venezuela (down from 24th in 2019) and the most popular Venezuelan Racing Driver.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Johnny Cecotto ranks 164 out of 1,080Before him are Gijs van Lennep, Didier Auriol, Hans-Joachim Stuck, Jarno Trulli, Carel Godin de Beaufort, and Stéphane Peterhansel. After him are Timo Salonen, Giancarlo Baghetti, Slim Borgudd, Bob Anderson, Olivier Panis, and Juan Pablo Montoya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Johnny Cecotto ranks 144Before him are Kostas Karamanlis, Sinan Sakić, Abdalla Hamdok, José Luis Brown, Carlo Rovelli, and Momir Bulatović. After him are Franky Vercauteren, Kevin McNally, Gregg L. Semenza, Akio Toyoda, Cecilia Roth, and Keiichi Tsuchiya.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Johnny Cecotto ranks 25 out of 183Before him are Rómulo Gallegos (1884), Juan Vicente Pérez (1909), José Antonio Abreu (1939), Teresa Carreño (1853), Rafael Urdaneta (1788), and Rafael de Nogales Méndez (1879). After him are Cipriano Castro (1858), Carlos Delgado Chalbaud (1909), Simón Rodríguez (1769), Octavio Lepage (1923), José Gregorio Hernández (1864), and Jaime Lusinchi (1924).

Among RACING DRIVERS In Venezuela

Among racing drivers born in Venezuela, Johnny Cecotto ranks 1After him are Pastor Maldonado (1985), and Rodolfo González (1986).