RACING DRIVER

Stefan Bellof

1957 - 1985

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Stefan Bellof (20 November 1957 – 1 September 1985) was a German racing driver. Bellof was the winner of the Drivers' Championship in the 1984 FIA World Endurance Championship, driving for the factory Rothmans Porsche team. His lap record on the Nordschleife configuration at the Nürburgring, set while qualifying for the 1000 km race in 1983, stood for 35 years, when it was beaten by Timo Bernhard in 2018. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stefan Bellof has received more than 503,683 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Stefan Bellof is the 142nd most popular racing driver (up from 163rd in 2019), the 2,751st most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,871st in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Racing Driver.

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  • 60.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Stefan Bellof ranks 142 out of 1,080. Before him are David Coulthard, John Watson, Kunimitsu Takahashi, Giancarlo Fisichella, Alex Zanardi, and Alejandro de Tomaso. After him are Eddie Irvine, Sandro Munari, Alan Stacey, Stuart Lewis-Evans, Hermann Lang, and Onofre Marimón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Stefan Bellof ranks 101. Before him are Patrick Battiston, Clive Burr, Anna Vissi, Ray Winstone, Cynthia Rothrock, and Marlon Jackson. After him are Mikhail Pletnev, Christian Schmidt, Steve Harvey, Goodluck Jonathan, Kenji Kawai, and Hansi Müller. Among people deceased in 1985, Stefan Bellof ranks 90. Before him are André Hunebelle, Oreco, Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, Hermann Priess, Anton Karas, and Géza Toldi. After him are Susanne Langer, Evgeny Lifshitz, Paul Castellano, Omayra Sánchez, Élias Sarkis, and Sergei Yutkevich.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Stefan Bellof ranks 2,751 out of 7,253. Before him are Richard Heidrich (1896), Mario Götze (1992), Tilly Fleischer (1911), Carl Brockelmann (1868), Louis V, Elector Palatine (1478), and Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine (1300). After him are Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1850), Andreas Werckmeister (1645), Poppo von Osterna (1200), Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1865), Max Skladanowsky (1863), and Gertrud von Le Fort (1876).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Germany

Among racing drivers born in Germany, Stefan Bellof ranks 12. Before him are Jochen Mass (1946), Sebastian Vettel (1987), Ralf Schumacher (1975), Heinz-Harald Frentzen (1967), Rolf Stommelen (1943), and Karl Kling (1910). After him are Hermann Lang (1909), Hans-Joachim Stuck (1951), Nico Rosberg (1985), Hans Herrmann (1928), Manfred Winkelhock (1951), and Kurt Adolff (1921).

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