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RACING DRIVER

Willy Mairesse

1928 - 1969

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Willy Mairesse (French pronunciation: [wi.li mɛ.ʁɛs]; 1 October 1928 – 2 September 1969) was a Formula One and sports-car driver from Belgium. He participated in 13 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 19 June 1960. He achieved one podium and scored a total of seven championship points. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willy Mairesse has received more than 84,371 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Willy Mairesse is the 135th most popular racing driver (up from 138th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 338th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belgian Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Willy Mairesse ranks 135 out of 888Before him are Ove Andersson, Giancarlo Fisichella, Guy Ligier, Rolf Stommelen, Reine Wisell, and Riccardo Paletti. After him are Jenson Button, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Stéphane Peterhansel, Richie Ginther, Robert Kubica, and Stefan Johansson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Willy Mairesse ranks 193Before him are Jack Tramiel, Nora Nova, Ernest Simoni, Ciriaco De Mita, Tom Sharpe, and Howard S. Becker. After him are Vitaliy Masol, Line Renaud, Orson Bean, Horace Silver, William Peter Blatty, and Édouard Glissant. Among people deceased in 1969, Willy Mairesse ranks 86Before him are Josef Blösche, Rómulo Gallegos, John Kennedy Toole, Constantin Ion Parhon, Eduardo Mondlane, and Ivar Ballangrud. After him are Aleksandras Stulginskis, André Salmon, Krzysztof Komeda, He Long, Leonard Woolf, and Ismail al-Azhari.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Willy Mairesse ranks 325 out of 1,019Before him are Lucien Van Impe (1946), Achille Van Acker (1898), Marc Wilmots (1969), Adeliza of Louvain (1103), Abraham Brueghel (1631), and Henry IV, Duke of Brabant (1251). After him are Patrick Sercu (1944), Lambert I, Count of Louvain (1000), Gaston Reiff (1921), Lambert Lombard (1505), Jan Sanders van Hemessen (1500), and Arnulf, Count of Holland (951).

Among RACING DRIVERS In Belgium

Among racing drivers born in Belgium, Willy Mairesse ranks 4Before him are Jacky Ickx (1945), Max Verstappen (1997), and Thierry Boutsen (1957). After him are Olivier Gendebien (1924), Georges Berger (1918), Charles de Tornaco (1927), Jacques Swaters (1926), Camille Jenatzy (1868), Patrick Nève (1949), Arthur Legat (1898), and Alain de Changy (1922).