RACING DRIVER

Vittorio Brambilla

1937 - 2001

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Vittorio Brambilla (Italian pronunciation: [vitˈtɔ.rjo bramˈbil.la]; 11 November 1937 – 26 May 2001) was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1974 to 1980. Nicknamed "the Monza Gorilla", Brambilla won the 1975 Austrian Grand Prix with March. Born and raised in Monza, Brambilla competed in Formula One for March, Surtees and Alfa Romeo. A wet weather specialist, Brambilla won the curtailed Austrian Grand Prix in 1975 with a 27-second margin over James Hunt in only 29 laps. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vittorio Brambilla has received more than 191,471 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Vittorio Brambilla is the 82nd most popular racing driver (down from 75th in 2019), the 1,803rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,613th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Racing Driver.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.05

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Vittorio Brambilla ranks 82 out of 1,080. Before him are Jochen Mass, Jean-Louis Schlesser, Lucien Bianchi, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Sebastian Vettel, and Arturo Merzario. After him are Jo Siffert, Tom Pryce, Björn Waldegård, Jacques Villeneuve, Pierre Levegh, and Rubens Barrichello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Vittorio Brambilla ranks 104. Before him are Francis Veber, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Shirley Bassey, John Horton Conway, Kōichirō Matsuura, and Baden Powell. After him are Tom Simpson, Anna Hazare, Eugen Doga, Ryutaro Hashimoto, Peter Burke, and Monika Ertl. Among people deceased in 2001, Vittorio Brambilla ranks 64. Before him are Henry Lee Lucas, Stanley Kramer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Masao Ono, Joseph Greenberg, and Francisco Varela. After him are Mirza Delibašić, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy, Nikos Sampson, John Phillips, and Marcos Pérez Jiménez.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Vittorio Brambilla ranks 1,803 out of 5,161. Before him are Charles I, Lord of Monaco (1300), Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio (-181), Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (1838), Maria Domenica Mazzarello (1837), Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658), and Agostino Chigi (1465). After him are Nevio Scala (1947), Vitalis of Milan (null), Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538), Luigi Pulci (1432), Giovanni Battista Gaulli (1639), and Margherita de' Medici (1612).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Italy

Among racing drivers born in Italy, Vittorio Brambilla ranks 14. Before him are Lella Lombardi (1941), Riccardo Patrese (1954), Maria Teresa de Filippis (1926), Michele Alboreto (1956), Lucien Bianchi (1934), and Arturo Merzario (1943). After him are Elio de Angelis (1958), Luigi Fagioli (1898), Piero Taruffi (1906), Eugenio Castellotti (1930), Andrea de Cesaris (1959), and Ludovico Scarfiotti (1933).

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