RACING DRIVER

Perry McCarthy

1961 - Today

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Perry Edward McCarthy (born 3 March 1961) is a British racing driver, who drove for the Andrea Moda team in Formula One in 1992, though never making it into a race, before moving into sportscars, including driving in the 24 Hours of Le Mans five times between 1996 and 2003. McCarthy also portrayed The Stig in the first two series of the revamped version of BBC motoring show Top Gear. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Perry McCarthy has received more than 1,255,001 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Perry McCarthy is the 736th most popular racing driver (down from 634th in 2019), the 5,610th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,947th in 2019) and the 126th most popular British Racing Driver.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Perry McCarthies by language

Over the past year Perry McCarthy has had the most page views in the with 142,632 views, followed by Russian (10,131), and Italian (7,298). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (116.90%), Catalan (67.86%), and French (57.14%)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Perry McCarthy ranks 736 out of 1,080. Before him are Troy Ruttman, Thierry Neuville, Nigel Stepney, Les Leston, Yuki Tsunoda, and André Lotterer. After him are Allan McNish, Nyck de Vries, Markus Winkelhock, Vladimir Chagin, Robert Doornbos, and Ernst Loof.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Perry McCarthy ranks 546. Before him are Bob Loughman, Yutaka Ikeuchi, Sheila Kelley, Natalia Shaposhnikova, Ron Klain, and Ann Cusack. After him are Sharon Lawrence, Atsushi Natori, Safra Catz, Kate Mosse, Kiyotaka Matsui, and Erich Gamma.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Perry McCarthy ranks 5,610 out of 8,785. Before him are Hughie Gallacher (1903), John McEnery (1943), Herbert Baker (1862), Frances Wright (1795), William Orbit (1956), and Thomas Hood (1799). After him are Ben Wallace (1970), Rupert Evans (1976), Emily Bergl (1975), Eddie Baily (1925), Roger C. Field (1945), and Colin McDonald (1930).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In United Kingdom

Among racing drivers born in United Kingdom, Perry McCarthy ranks 126. Before him are John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (1958), Horace Gould (1921), Cuth Harrison (1906), Michael Park (1966), Nigel Stepney (1958), and Les Leston (1920). After him are Allan McNish (1969), Jackie Lewis (1936), Tom Bridger (1934), Peter Westbury (1938), Robin Montgomerie-Charrington (1915), and Ian Stewart (1929).

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