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RACING DRIVER

Rudolf Caracciola

1901 - 1959

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Otto Wilhelm Rudolf Caracciola (30 January 1901 – 28 September 1959) was a German racing driver. He won the European Drivers' Championship, the pre-1950 equivalent of the modern Formula One World Championship, an unsurpassed three times. He also won the European Hillclimbing Championship three times – twice in sports cars, and once in Grand Prix cars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Caracciola has received more than 404,636 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Rudolf Caracciola is the 57th most popular racing driver (up from 62nd in 2019), the 1,312th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,463rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Rudolf Caracciola ranks 57 out of 888. Before him are Didier Pironi, Gerhard Berger, Lella Lombardi, Carlos Sainz, Ari Vatanen, and Riccardo Patrese. After him are Tazio Nuvolari, Colin McRae, Patrick Depailler, Alan Jones, Maria Teresa de Filippis, and Michele Alboreto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Rudolf Caracciola ranks 69. Before him are Vasili Kuznetsov, Rudolf Slánský, Tage Erlander, Hans Kammler, Stefan Wyszyński, and Vincent du Vigneaud. After him are Raimundo Orsi, Mildred Harris, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Gino Cervi, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, and Yang Kaihui. Among people deceased in 1959, Rudolf Caracciola ranks 34. Before him are Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Cecil B. DeMille, Enrico De Nicola, Alfred Kubin, Mario Lanza, and Wanda Landowska. After him are Ernest Bloch, Sidney Bechet, Olga Knipper, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, D. F. Malan, and Ichirō Hatoyama.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Caracciola ranks 1,312 out of 6,142. Before him are Mesut Özil (1988), Ludwig Quidde (1858), Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785), Karl Löwith (1897), Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria (1849), and W. G. Sebald (1944). After him are August von Kotzebue (1761), Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1756), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), Marian Gold (1954), Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682), and Brigitte Helm (1906).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Germany

Among racing drivers born in Germany, Rudolf Caracciola ranks 4. Before him are Michael Schumacher (1969), Jochen Rindt (1942), and Wolfgang von Trips (1928). After him are Sebastian Vettel (1987), Walter Röhrl (1947), Jochen Mass (1946), Ralf Schumacher (1975), Nico Rosberg (1985), Rolf Stommelen (1943), Heinz-Harald Frentzen (1967), and Hans Herrmann (1928).

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