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RACING DRIVER

Peter Revson

1939 - 1974

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Peter Jeffrey Revlon Revson (February 27, 1939 – March 22, 1974) was an American race car driver and heir to the Revlon cosmetics fortune. He was the Can-Am Champion for the 1971 season, and finished fifth overall in the World Drivers' Championship for both the 1972 and 1973 Formula One seasons. Revson and Dan Gurney were the only two drivers to win races in Formula One, Indy Car, Can-Am, and Trans-Am racing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Revson has received more than 435,902 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Peter Revson is the 204th most popular racing driver (down from 189th in 2019), the 4,346th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,049th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Peter Revson ranks 204 out of 888Before him are Al Unser, Gijs van Lennep, Bill Ivy, Felice Bonetto, Tony Brise, and Marcus Grönholm. After him are Sergio Pérez, Peter Gethin, Nick Heidfeld, Kunimitsu Takahashi, Romain Grosjean, and Marc Surer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Peter Revson ranks 240Before him are Al Unser, Giulio Angioni, Ileana Cotrubaș, Ekaterina Maximova, João César Monteiro, and James Galway. After him are Brigitte Fontaine, Tigran Mansurian, Corin Redgrave, Tetsuya Chiba, Yuri Bezmenov, and Arik Einstein. Among people deceased in 1974, Peter Revson ranks 111Before him are Spyridon Marinatos, Earl Warren, Silvio Moser, Sergey Lebedev, Bud Abbott, and Sattar Bahlulzade. After him are Richard Huelsenbeck, Bert Patenaude, Abraham Robinson, Lev Knipper, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, and Ernesto Vidal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peter Revson ranks 4,346 out of 18,182Before him are Dick Miller (1928), Haskell Curry (1900), Mike Porcaro (1955), Julie Adams (1926), Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823), and John G. Trump (1907). After him are William R. King (1786), Mark Tobey (1890), James Salter (1925), Michael Moriarty (1941), Sarah Rafferty (1972), and John Spencer (1946).

Among RACING DRIVERS In United States

Among racing drivers born in United States, Peter Revson ranks 9Before him are Richie Ginther (1930), Dan Gurney (1931), Kenny Roberts (1951), Wayne Rainey (1960), Mark Donohue (1937), and Al Unser (1939). After him are Lee Wallard (1910), Kevin Schwantz (1964), Brett Lunger (1945), Bill Vukovich (1918), Richard Petty (1937), and Ken Block (1967).