RACING DRIVER

Toni Branca

1916 - 1985

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Antonio Branca (15 September 1916, Sion, Switzerland – 10 May 1985, Sierre, Switzerland) was a Formula One racing car driver from Switzerland who competed in three World Championship races. His motor racing career was allegedly financed by an admiring Belgian countess, the Vicomtesse de Walkiers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toni Branca has received more than 24,836 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Toni Branca is the 471st most popular racing driver (up from 473rd in 2019), the 571st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 529th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swiss Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Toni Branca ranks 471 out of 1,080Before him are Kenneth McAlpine, Giorgio Bassi, Max de Terra, Jacques Swaters, Marc Gené, and Pedro Lamy. After him are Daijiro Kato, Roberto Bussinello, Timo Glock, Emilio Zapico, Johnnie Parsons, and Volker Weidler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Toni Branca ranks 242Before him are Dorothy Cheney, David Brown, John Kundla, Lee Cronbach, Frank Parker, and Damián Iguacén Borau. After him are Krystyna Feldman, Lidia Wysocka, Kazimierz Brandys, Ignacio Trelles, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, and Dingiri Banda Wijetunga. Among people deceased in 1985, Toni Branca ranks 219Before him are Tom Richards, Efrem Zimbalist, Harry Hopman, Josip Primožič, Archie Stark, and Muhammad Zafarullah Khan. After him are C. B. van Niel, Paul Creston, Jacques de Lacretelle, Fritz Keller, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, and Richard Haydn.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Toni Branca ranks 571 out of 1,015Before him are Armand Borel (1923), Ernst Stueckelberg (1905), Max de Terra (1918), Ludwig Schläfli (1814), Leon Schlumpf (1925), and Uri Rosenthal (1945). After him are Karl Röderer (1868), Adolf Spinnler (1879), Jean Tamini (1919), Robert Emden (1862), David Bennent (1966), and Kurt Armbruster (1934).

Among RACING DRIVERS In Switzerland

Among racing drivers born in Switzerland, Toni Branca ranks 9Before him are Albert Scherrer (1908), Luigi Taveri (1929), Marc Surer (1951), Silvio Moser (1941), Romain Grosjean (1986), and Max de Terra (1918). After him are Jo Vonlanthen (1942), Franco Forini (1958), Mick Schumacher (1999), Heinz Schiller (1930), Heini Walter (1927), and Loris Kessel (1950).