RACING DRIVER

Raymond Sommer

1906 - 1950

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Pierre Raymond Sommer (31 August 1906 – 10 September 1950) was a French racing driver. He raced both before and after WWII with some success, particularly in endurance racing. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race in both 1932 and 1933, and although he did not reach the finishing line in any subsequent appearance at the Le Mans, he did lead each event until 1938. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Sommer has received more than 77,027 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Raymond Sommer is the 175th most popular racing driver (down from 169th in 2019), the 3,140th most popular biography from France (down from 3,021st in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Raymond Sommer ranks 175 out of 1,080. Before him are Olivier Panis, Juan Pablo Montoya, Nico Rosberg, Attilio Bettega, Renzo Zorzi, and Hans Herrmann. After him are Paul Belmondo, Harald Ertl, Keiichi Tsuchiya, Nello Pagani, Stefan Johansson, and Ernesto Brambilla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Raymond Sommer ranks 163. Before him are Dmitry Likhachov, Tribhuvan of Nepal, Francisco Ayala, Marian Spychalski, Eddie Albert, and Jean Leray. After him are Fred Lawrence Whipple, Aileen Riggin, Anšlavs Eglītis, José Della Torre, James Quinn, and Olena Teliha. Among people deceased in 1950, Raymond Sommer ranks 86. Before him are Kurt Schmitt, Yi Kwang-su, Nikolai Luzin, Juan Botasso, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, and Al Jolson. After him are Gustaf John Ramstedt, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Edwin Sutherland, Santiago Casares Quiroga, Ernst Wiechert, and Dimitri Uznadze.

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In France

Among people born in France, Raymond Sommer ranks 3,140 out of 6,770. Before him are Renaud (1952), Claude Le Jeune (1528), Jean Leray (1906), Salomon de Brosse (1571), Henri Lebasque (1865), and Auguste Barbier (1805). After him are Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (1908), Madeleine Lebeau (1923), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Antoine III de Gramont (1604), Jean du Bellay (1492), and Guillaume Rondelet (1507).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In France

Among racing drivers born in France, Raymond Sommer ranks 28. Before him are Paul Frère (1917), Henri Pescarolo (1942), Louis Rosier (1905), Didier Auriol (1958), Stéphane Peterhansel (1965), and Olivier Panis (1966). After him are Paul Belmondo (1963), Johnny Servoz-Gavin (1942), Philippe Streiff (1955), Harry Schell (1921), Jean Ragnotti (1945), and Érik Comas (1963).

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