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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 46,612 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Luigi Taveri is the 196th most popular racing driver (down from 184th in 2019), the 322nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 293rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Luigi Taveri ranks 196 out of 888Before him are Karl Kling, Timo Salonen, Gerry Ashmore, Pedro de la Rosa, Nanni Galli, and Bob Anderson. After him are Toulo de Graffenried, Al Unser, Gijs van Lennep, Bill Ivy, Felice Bonetto, and Tony Brise.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Luigi Taveri ranks 227Before him are Lee Shau-kee, Hermann Prey, Jeremy Thorpe, Link Wray, Józef Glemp, and Lyudmila Zykina. After him are June Squibb, Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, Karl Koller, Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, István Kertész, and Toshiko Akiyoshi. Among people deceased in 2018, Luigi Taveri ranks 186Before him are Lindsay Kemp, Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Juraj Herz, Vladimir Lyakhov, Karl Lehmann, and Frank Carlucci. After him are Luis Posada Carriles, Penny Marshall, Siegfried Rauch, Henri Namphy, Phan Văn Khải, and Andrei Bitov.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Luigi Taveri ranks 322 out of 876Before him are Felix Manz (1498), François Le Fort (1656), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), Kurt Koch (1950), Heinrich Sutermeister (1910), and Hans Erni (1909). After him are Albert Heim (1849), Werner Bischof (1916), Murat Yakin (1974), Erhard Loretan (1959), Jean Reynier (1771), and Max Abegglen (1902).

Among RACING DRIVERS In Switzerland

Among racing drivers born in Switzerland, Luigi Taveri ranks 4Before him are Clay Regazzoni (1939), Jo Siffert (1936), and Silvio Moser (1941). After him are Romain Grosjean (1986), Marc Surer (1951), Mick Schumacher (1999), Heinz Schiller (1930), Jo Vonlanthen (1942), Loris Kessel (1950), Toni Branca (1916), and Max de Terra (1918).