RACING DRIVER

Peter Collins

1931 - 1958

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Peter John Collins (6 November 1931 – 3 August 1958) was a British racing driver. He was killed in the 1958 German Grand Prix, just weeks after winning the RAC British Grand Prix. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Collins has received more than 33,464 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Peter Collins is the 118th most popular racing driver (down from 68th in 2019), the 1,677th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,174th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Racing Driver.

Memorability Metrics

  • 33k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Peter Collins by language

Over the past year Peter Collins has had the most page views in the with 33,848 views, followed by German (15,529), and Spanish (11,487). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (363.54%), Russian (239.02%), and Italian (197.25%)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Peter Collins ranks 118 out of 1,080. Before him are Andrea de Cesaris, Sébastien Loeb, Dan Gurney, Reine Wisell, Jo Schlesser, and Paul Frère. After him are Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Gunnar Nilsson, Henri Pescarolo, Jos Verstappen, Ludovico Scarfiotti, and Thierry Boutsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Peter Collins ranks 159. Before him are Guido de Marco, Claude Piron, Magali Noël, Carmen Dell'Orefice, Shintaro Katsu, and Freddy Quinn. After him are Mukaghali Makatayev, Cristina Deutekom, Adriana Asti, Heisuke Hironaka, Umberto Lenzi, and Carl Brashear. Among people deceased in 1958, Peter Collins ranks 60. Before him are Rudolf Rocker, Edward Weston, José Miaja, Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium, Claire Lee Chennault, and Grigory Petrovsky. After him are Pierre-Étienne Flandin, Haykanoush Danielyan, Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria, Joseph Klausner, and Vítězslav Nezval.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Collins ranks 1,677 out of 8,785. Before him are David Trimble (1944), David A. Stewart (1952), Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (1783), Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415), Ken Russell (1927), and James Cosmo (1947). After him are Eric Knight (1897), Albert Austin (1881), James McAvoy (1979), Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766), Tim Staffell (1948), and Stephen Langton (1150).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In United Kingdom

Among racing drivers born in United Kingdom, Peter Collins ranks 18. Before him are Damon Hill (1960), Colin McRae (1968), Mike Hailwood (1940), Tom Pryce (1949), Roger Williamson (1948), and David Purley (1945). After him are David Coulthard (1971), John Watson (1946), Eddie Irvine (1965), Alan Stacey (1933), Stuart Lewis-Evans (1930), and Chris Bristow (1937).

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