RACING DRIVER

Roland Ratzenberger

1960 - 1994

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Roland Walter Ratzenberger (German: [ˈroːlant ˈratsn̩bɛrɡɐ]; 4 July 1960 – 30 April 1994) was an Austrian racing driver who raced in various categories of motorsport, including British Formula 3000, Japanese Formula 3000 and Formula One. Having had sporadic success throughout the lower formulas, Ratzenberger managed to secure an F1 seat in 1994 for the new Simtek team, at the unusually late age of 33. He was killed in a crash during qualifying for the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix just three races into his F1 career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roland Ratzenberger has received more than 1,740,605 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Roland Ratzenberger is the 35th most popular racing driver (up from 38th in 2019), the 231st most popular biography from Austria (up from 232nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Racing Driver.

Roland Ratzenberger is most famous for being the only driver to die during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 62.36

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  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Roland Ratzenbergers by language

Over the past year Roland Ratzenberger has had the most page views in the with 228,134 views, followed by German (102,830), and Spanish (68,349). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (88.64%), Scots (75.88%), and Slovenian (67.03%)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Roland Ratzenberger ranks 35 out of 1,080. Before him are Giacomo Agostini, Alfonso de Portago, Carlos Reutemann, Carlos Sainz, Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, and Fernando Alonso. After him are John Surtees, Jody Scheckter, Mika Häkkinen, Mike Hawthorn, Walter Röhrl, and Denny Hulme.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Roland Ratzenberger ranks 29. Before him are Andreas Brehme, Ebrahim Raisi, Tilda Swinton, Yoon Suk Yeol, Bono, and Kim Ki-duk. After him are Miguel Díaz-Canel, Stanley Tucci, Rafael Benítez, Ivan Lendl, Careca, and Hugo Weaving. Among people deceased in 1994, Roland Ratzenberger ranks 49. Before him are Fernando Rey, Pujie, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Raul Julia, and Jessica Tandy. After him are Jack Kirby, Matt Busby, Roberto Eduardo Viola, Julian Schwinger, György Cziffra, and Vladimir Ivashko.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Roland Ratzenberger ranks 231 out of 1,424. Before him are Božena Němcová (1820), Ferdinand II of Portugal (1816), Miep Gies (1909), Bruno Kreisky (1911), Otto Bauer (1881), and Oskar Potiorek (1853). After him are Gustav Wagner (1911), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Josef von Sternberg (1894), Peter L. Berger (1929), Paul Lazarsfeld (1901), and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Austria

Among racing drivers born in Austria, Roland Ratzenberger ranks 3. Before him are Niki Lauda (1949), and Helmut Marko (1943). After him are Gerhard Berger (1959), Helmuth Koinigg (1948), Harald Ertl (1948), Franz Tost (1956), Karl Wendlinger (1968), Alexander Wurz (1974), Dieter Quester (1939), Jo Gartner (1954), and Hans Binder (1948).

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