RACING DRIVER

Luigi Taveri

1929 - 2018

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Luigi Taveri (19 September 1929 – 1 March 2018) was a Swiss professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He competed in the FIM motorcycle Grand Prix world championships from 1954 to 1966. Taveri is notable for being a three-time 125cc road racing world champion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luigi Taveri has received more than 49,726 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Taveri is the 198th most popular racing driver (down from 196th in 2019), the 326th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 321st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Luigi Taveri ranks 198 out of 1,080. Before him are Jackie Oliver, Bruno Giacomelli, Roberto Moreno, Franz Tost, Martin Donnelly, and Roy Salvadori. After him are Guy Edwards, Marc Surer, Fabrizio Meoni, Silvio Moser, Phil Read, and Ignazio Giunti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Luigi Taveri ranks 227. Before him are Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, Péter Szondi, Lee Shau-kee, Bob Hawke, Ronald Golias, and George Crumb. After him are Christian Marin, Gerhard Hanappi, Haruo Nakajima, Piero Cappuccilli, Sunil Dutt, and Moses Gunn. Among people deceased in 2018, Luigi Taveri ranks 187. Before him are Penny Marshall, Jesús López Cobos, Zhores Medvedev, Abbas, Stefán Karl Stefánsson, and René Houseman. After him are Gianfranco Parolini, Philip Bosco, Juraj Herz, Levko Lukianenko, Ramón Chao, and Frank Carlucci.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Luigi Taveri ranks 326 out of 1,015. Before him are Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), Maurice Bavaud (1916), Pierre Musy (1910), Gustave Ador (1845), Salomon Gessner (1730), and Paul Sacher (1906). After him are Hans-Rudolf Merz (1942), Moritz Leuenberger (1946), Johann Kaspar Bluntschli (1808), Marc Surer (1951), Louis Niedermeyer (1802), and Bertha Wegmann (1847).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Switzerland

Among racing drivers born in Switzerland, Luigi Taveri ranks 4. Before him are Clay Regazzoni (1939), Jo Siffert (1936), and Albert Scherrer (1908). After him are Marc Surer (1951), Silvio Moser (1941), Romain Grosjean (1986), Max de Terra (1918), Toni Branca (1916), Jo Vonlanthen (1942), Franco Forini (1958), and Mick Schumacher (1999).

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