RACING DRIVER

Piero Taruffi

1906 - 1988

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Piero Taruffi (12 October 1906 – 12 January 1988) was an Italian racing driver, motorcycle road racer, motorsport executive and engineer, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956. Taruffi won the 1952 Swiss Grand Prix with Ferrari. In endurance racing, Taruffi won the Mille Miglia in 1957, also with Ferrari. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Piero Taruffi has received more than 335,404 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Piero Taruffi is the 94th most popular racing driver (up from 117th in 2019), the 1,957th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,055th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Italian Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Piero Taruffi ranks 94 out of 1,080. Before him are Rubens Barrichello, Stig Blomqvist, Elio de Angelis, Ángel Nieto, Luigi Fagioli, and Juha Kankkunen. After him are Ken Block, Guy Ligier, Eugenio Castellotti, Thierry Sabine, Roger Williamson, and Pedro Rodríguez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Piero Taruffi ranks 106. Before him are Junio Valerio Borghese, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Heinrich Schwarz, Clifford Odets, Humberto Delgado, and Wolf Albach-Retty. After him are Dita Parlo, Giuseppe Siri, Hamazasp Babadzhanian, Philo Farnsworth, Berthold, Margrave of Baden, and Chester Carlson. Among people deceased in 1988, Piero Taruffi ranks 68. Before him are Lev Pontryagin, Bluma Zeigarnik, Henry Murray, Branko Zebec, Takeo Miki, and Anna Mahler. After him are Viktors Arājs, Charles Addams, Andrija Artuković, Edgar Faure, Ilona Elek, and Raymond Dart.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Piero Taruffi ranks 1,957 out of 5,161. Before him are Bonanno Pisano (1150), Francesco Maria Veracini (1690), Andrew Avellino (1521), Daniele De Rossi (1983), Saint Fabiola (400), and Leopoldo de' Medici (1617). After him are Marco Minghetti (1818), Moschus (-200), Michele Sanmicheli (1484), Democedes (-600), Marcel Bich (1914), and Simone Boccanegra (1301).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Italy

Among racing drivers born in Italy, Piero Taruffi ranks 17. Before him are Michele Alboreto (1956), Lucien Bianchi (1934), Arturo Merzario (1943), Vittorio Brambilla (1937), Elio de Angelis (1958), and Luigi Fagioli (1898). After him are Eugenio Castellotti (1930), Andrea de Cesaris (1959), Ludovico Scarfiotti (1933), Luigi Musso (1924), Alberto Colombo (1946), and Geki (1937).

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