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RACING DRIVER

Roy Salvadori

1922 - 2012

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Roy Francesco Salvadori (12 May 1922 – 3 June 2012) was a British racing driver and team manager. He was born in Dovercourt, Essex, to parents of Italian descent. He graduated to Formula One by 1952 and competed regularly until 1962 for a succession of teams including Cooper, Vanwall, BRM, Aston Martin and Connaught. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roy Salvadori has received more than 184,842 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Roy Salvadori is the 171st most popular racing driver (down from 152nd in 2019), the 2,202nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,057th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Roy Salvadori ranks 171 out of 888Before him are Didier Auriol, Olivier Gendebien, Johnny Cecotto, Keiichi Tsuchiya, Raymond Sommer, and Olivier Panis. After him are Johnny Servoz-Gavin, Carel Godin de Beaufort, Joey Dunlop, Hans-Joachim Stuck, Andrea de Adamich, and Kenny Roberts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Roy Salvadori ranks 193Before him are Carlo Lizzani, Charles Gérard, Tetsurō Tamba, Khiuaz Dospanova, George McGovern, and Jack Klugman. After him are Dorothy Dandridge, Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, Saad el-Shazly, Sinan Hasani, Virgilio Noè, and Vsevolod Bobrov. Among people deceased in 2012, Roy Salvadori ranks 161Before him are Vitaly Vorotnikov, José María Zárraga, Lisa Della Casa, Barry Commoner, George McGovern, and Jack Klugman. After him are Adrienne Rich, Rajesh Khanna, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Josef Škvorecký, Claude Pinoteau, and Ann Rutherford.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roy Salvadori ranks 2,202 out of 7,765Before him are Richard Baxter (1615), Marjorie Boulton (1924), Norman Wisdom (1915), John Canton (1718), Noel Redding (1945), and Peter Mayle (1939). After him are Damian Lewis (1971), John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886), David Trimble (1944), George Bentham (1800), George Herbert (1593), and J. B. Priestley (1894).

Among RACING DRIVERS In United Kingdom

Among racing drivers born in United Kingdom, Roy Salvadori ranks 28Before him are Alan Stacey (1933), Jenson Button (1980), Chris Bristow (1937), Tony Brooks (1932), Eddie Irvine (1965), and Guy Edwards (1942). After him are Joey Dunlop (1952), Gerry Ashmore (1936), Bob Anderson (1931), Bill Ivy (1942), Tony Brise (1952), and Peter Gethin (1940).