RACING DRIVER

Michele Alboreto

1956 - 2001

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Michele Alboreto (Italian pronunciation: [miˈkɛːle alboˈreːto]; 23 December 1956 – 25 April 2001) was an Italian racing driver. He was runner-up to Alain Prost in the 1985 Formula One World Championship, as well as winning the 1997 24 Hours of Le Mans and 2001 12 Hours of Sebring sports car races. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michele Alboreto has received more than 582,713 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Michele Alboreto is the 71st most popular racing driver (down from 63rd in 2019), the 1,605th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,492nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Italian Racing Driver.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Michele Alboretos by language

Over the past year Michele Alboreto has had the most page views in the with 114,481 views, followed by English (73,101), and Japanese (22,173). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (516.67%), Afrikaans (399.12%), and Catalan (136.74%)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Michele Alboreto ranks 71 out of 1,080Before him are Louis Chiron, Riccardo Patrese, Maria Teresa de Filippis, Maurice Trintignant, Colin McRae, and Patrick Tambay. After him are Jean Alesi, José Froilán González, Mike Hailwood, Carlos Pace, Jochen Mass, and Jean-Louis Schlesser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Michele Alboreto ranks 59Before him are Michael Biehn, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, Joe Satriani, David Sassoli, Stevie Young, and Bidzina Ivanishvili. After him are Joan Allen, Thomas N'Kono, Jan Peter Balkenende, Adnan Oktar, Almazbek Atambayev, and Sultan bin Salman Al Saud. Among people deceased in 2001, Michele Alboreto ranks 53Before him are Edward Gierek, Francisco da Costa Gomes, Poul Anderson, Ken Kesey, Emilie Schindler, and Birendra of Nepal. After him are Rehavam Ze'evi, Joey Ramone, Seishiro Shimatani, Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen, Henry Lee Lucas, and Stanley Kramer.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Michele Alboreto ranks 1,605 out of 5,161Before him are Welf I, Duke of Bavaria (1035), Paolo Villaggio (1932), Antonio Sant'Elia (1888), Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (1630), Nicholas of Tolentino (1245), and Silvia Federici (1942). After him are Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici (1421), Ornella Vanoni (1934), Francesco del Cossa (1436), Pope Pontian (200), Gianfranco Zola (1966), and Giovanni Battista Bassani (1650).

Among RACING DRIVERS In Italy

Among racing drivers born in Italy, Michele Alboreto ranks 11Before him are Valentino Rossi (1979), Alfredo Ferrari (1932), Tazio Nuvolari (1892), Lella Lombardi (1941), Riccardo Patrese (1954), and Maria Teresa de Filippis (1926). After him are Lucien Bianchi (1934), Arturo Merzario (1943), Vittorio Brambilla (1937), Elio de Angelis (1958), Luigi Fagioli (1898), and Piero Taruffi (1906).