RACING DRIVER

Reg Parnell

1911 - 1964

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Reginald Parnell (2 July 1911 – 7 January 1964) was a racing driver and team manager from Derby, England. He participated in seven Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, achieving one podium, and scoring a total of nine championship points. Parnell, as both a driver and a team manager, had a considerable influence on post-war British motorsport until his premature death in 1964. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Reg Parnell has received more than 114,537 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Reg Parnell is the 329th most popular racing driver (down from 289th in 2019), the 3,282nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,122nd in 2019) and the 52nd most popular British Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Reg Parnell ranks 329 out of 1,080Before him are Peter de Klerk, Jan Lammers, Cliff Allison, Dries van der Lof, Max Biaggi, and Conny Andersson. After him are Karl Wendlinger, José Dolhem, Freddie Spencer, Takuma Sato, Carlos Menditeguy, and Jan Magnussen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Reg Parnell ranks 239Before him are Gerhard Stöck, David Seymour, Leen Vente, Paris Pişmiş, Gyula Lázár, and Giuseppe Olmo. After him are Ján Cikker, Fauja Singh, Mirza Ibrahimov, Kurt Maetzig, Leif Erickson, and Stan Kenton. Among people deceased in 1964, Reg Parnell ranks 140Before him are Eddie Cantor, Hans Moser, Hermann Barrelet, Vasily Agapkin, Adolf Šimperský, and Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt. After him are Felisberto Hernández, Erik Malmberg, Theodore Freeman, Agnes Miegel, Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, and Edith Sitwell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Reg Parnell ranks 3,282 out of 8,785Before him are Doreen Massey (1944), Cliff Allison (1932), Mick Hucknall (1960), Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931), Carey Mulligan (1985), and Noah Taylor (1969). After him are Reginald Owen (1887), Edmund Purdom (1926), Tony Christie (1943), George Chapman (1559), John Marshall (1876), and Graham Gouldman (1946).

Among RACING DRIVERS In United Kingdom

Among racing drivers born in United Kingdom, Reg Parnell ranks 52Before him are Alan Brown (1919), Geoff Duke (1923), Johnny Herbert (1964), Mike Parkes (1931), Mike Spence (1936), and Cliff Allison (1932). After him are Peter Gethin (1940), George Abecassis (1913), Brian Redman (1937), Peter Whitehead (1914), Leslie Graham (1911), and Richard Burns (1971).