RACING DRIVER

Johnny Cecotto

1956 - Today

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Johnny Alberto Cecotto Persello (born 25 January 1956), better known as Johnny Cecotto, is an Italian-born 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. Despite the auspicious beginning to his motorcycle racing career, he suffered numerous injuries and mechanical problems which curtailed his success in motorcycle Grand Prix racing.At the age of 24, Cecotto turned his attention to auto racing where he reached the pinnacle of the sport as a Formula One driver. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johnny Cecotto has received more than 210,169 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

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Johnny Cecottos by language

Over the past year Johnny Cecotto has had the most page views in the with 28,371 views, followed by English (26,990), and Italian (14,147). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Croatian (65.75%), Slovenian (35.04%), and Egyptian Arabic (34.88%)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Johnny Cecotto ranks 164 out of 1,080. Before 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 144. Before 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 183. Before 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).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Venezuela

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

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