Denis Clive Hulme
OBE, 18 June 1936 – 4 October 1992, was a New Zealand racing driver who won the 1967 Formula One World Drivers' Championship for the Brabham team. Between his debut at Monaco in 1965 and his final race in the 1974 US Grand Prix, he started 112 Grands Prix, resulting in eight victories and 33 podium finishes.
Ralph Dale Earnhardt
April 29, 1951 – February 18, 2001, was an American professional stock car driver and racing team owner, who raced from 1975 to 2001 in the former NASCAR Winston Cup Series, most notably driving the No. 3 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing.His aggressive driving style earned him the nicknames "the Intimidator", "the Man in Black" and "Ironhead".
He is regarded as one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history and named as one of the NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers class in 1998.
Keijo Erik Rosberg
born 6 December 1948, known as "Keke", is a Finnish former racing driver and winner of the 1982 Formula One World Championship. He was the first Finnish driver to win the championship.
He is the father of 2016 Formula One World Champion Nico Rosberg.
Alan Stanley Jones
born 2 November 1946, is an Australian former Formula One driver. He was the first driver to win a Formula One World Championship with the Williams team, becoming the 1980 World Drivers' Champion and the second Australian to do so following triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham. He competed in a total of 117 Grands Prix, winning 12 and achieving 24 podium finishes.
Jones also won the 1978 Can-Am championship driving a Lola.
Damon Graham Devereux Hill, OBE
born 17 September 1960, is a British former professional racing driver from England and the 1996 Formula One World Champion.
He is the son of Graham Hill, and, along with Nico Rosberg, one of two sons of a Formula One World Champion to also win the title.
Jody David Scheckter
born 29 January 1950, is a South African business proprietor and former motor racing driver. He competed in Formula One from 1972 to 1980, winning the Drivers' Championship in 1979 with Ferrari.
Scheckter is the first and, as of 2023, only driver from the continent of Africa to have won a Formula One race or the World Drivers' Championship.
Donald Glenn Garlits
born January 14, 1932, Tampa, Florida, is an American race car driver and automotive engineer. Considered the father of drag racing, he is known as "Big Daddy" to drag racing fans around the world.
Garlits was the first drag racer to officially surpass the 170, 180, 200, 240, 250, and 270 mile-per-hour marks in the quarter mile; he was also the first to top 200 mph (320 km/h) in the 1 ⁄ 8 mi (0.20 km). He has been inducted into several Halls of Fame and has won many awards during his career.
Mika Pauli Häkkinen
born 28 September 1968, nicknamed "The Flying Finn", is a Finnish former racing driver. He won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1998and 1999, both times driving for McLaren.
Häkkinen is one of three Formula One drivers from Finland that have won the World Drivers' Championship, and the only one to have done so more than once.
Juan Manuel Fangio
24 June 1911 – 17 July 1995, was an Argentine racing car driver. Nicknamed El Chueco or El Maestro, he dominated the first decade of Formula One racing, winning the World Drivers' Championship five times
Sir Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton
born 7 January 1985, is a British racing driver currently competing in Formula One, driving for Mercedes. In Formula One, Hamilton has won a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles, and holds the records for the most wins (103), pole positions (104), and podium finishes (197), among others.
Bob Glidden
August 18, 1944 – December 17, 2017, was an American drag racer. He was retired from Pro Stock racing in 1997 and returned in 2010. Glidden retired as the driver with the most wins in National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) history at that time and he was the third-most successful drag racer of the professional class drivers at the time of his death.
Glidden won 85 NHRA National Events. In the Professional classes. Among his numerous accomplishments, Glidden won nine straight NHRA national races in 1979 and was the No. 1 qualifier 23 times in a row, including the entire 1987 season. At one point, he won 50 eliminations rounds in a row.
Bruce Leslie McLaren
30 August 1937 – 2 June 1970, was a New Zealand racing car designer, driver, engineer, and inventor.
His name lives on in the McLaren team, which he founded, one of the most successful in Formula One championship history, winning a total of 8 World Constructors' Championships and 12 World Drivers' Championships.
McLaren cars dominated CanAm sports car racing with 56 wins, a considerable number of them with him behind the wheel, between 1967 and 1972, and have won three Indianapolis 500 races, as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans and 12 Hours of Sebring.
Alan Dennis Kulwicki
December 14, 1954 – April 1, 1993, nicknamed "Special K" and the "Polish Prince", was an American auto racing driver and team owner.
He started racing at local short tracksin Wisconsin before moving up to regional stock car touring series. Kulwicki arrived at NASCAR, the highest and most expensive level of stock car racing in the United States, with no sponsor, a limited budget and only a racecar and a borrowed pickup truck.
Despite starting with meager equipment and finances, he earned the 1986 NASCAR Rookie of the Year award over drivers racing for well-funded teams.
Ayrton Senna da Silva
21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994, was a Brazilian racing driver who won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1988, 1990, and 1991. Senna is one of three Formula One drivers from Brazil to win the World Championship and won 41 Grands Prix and 65 pole positions, with the latter being the record until 2006.
Daniel Sexton Gurney
April 13, 1931 – January 14, 2018, was an American racing driver, race car constructor, and team owner who reached racing's highest levels starting in 1958. Gurney won races in the Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR, Can-Am, and Trans-Am Series.
Gurney is the first of three drivers to have won races in sports cars (1958), Formula One (1962), NASCAR (1963), and Indy cars (1967).
Darrell Lee Waltrip
born February 5, 1947, is an American motorsports analyst, author as well as a former national television broadcaster and stock car driver.
He raced from 1972 to 2000 in the NASCAR Cup Series, most notably driving the No. 11 Chevrolet for Junior Johnson. Waltrip is a three-time Cup Series champion (1981, 1982, 1985).
Jimmie Kenneth Johnson
born September 17, 1975, is an American professional auto racing driver. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 84 Toyota Camry XSE for his team, Legacy Motor Club. Johnson's seven Cup championships, the first five of which are consecutive, are tied with Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for the most all-time.
From 2021 to 2022, Johnson competed in the IndyCar Series for Chip Ganassi Racing, and has competed occasionally in sports car racing throughout his career.
Michael Schumacher
born 3 January 1969, is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes.
Schumacher has a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles (tied with Lewis Hamilton) and, at the time of his retirement from the sport in 2012, he held the records for the most wins (91), pole positions (68), and podium finishes (155)—which have since been broken by Hamilton—while he maintains the record for consecutive Drivers' Championships and number of total fastest laps (77), among others.
Richard Lee Petty
born July 2, 1937, nicknamed "the King", is an American former stock car racingdriver who competed from 1958 to 1992 in the former NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series, most notably driving the No. 43 Plymouth/Pontiac for Petty Enterprises.
He was the first driver to win the Cup Series championship seven times while also winning a record 200 races during his career. This included winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times and winning a record 27 races in one season (1967).
Russell William "Rusty" Wallace Jr.
born August 14, 1956, is an American former NASCAR racing driver.
He won the 1984 NASCAR Cup series Rookie of the Year and the 1989 NASCAR Winston CupChampionship. For the accolades over the course of his successful career, Wallace has been inducted in the NASCAR Hall of Fame (2013), the International Motorsports Hall of Fame (2013), the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (2014)[3] and the National Motorsports Press Association Hall of Fame (2010).
Alain Marie Pascal Prost
born 24 February 1955, is a French retired racing driver and Formula One team owner.
A four-time Formula One World Drivers' Champion, from 1987 until 2001 he held the record for most Grand Prix victories until Michael Schumacher surpassed Prost's total of 51 victories at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix.
Willy Mairesse
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. He committed suicide in a hotel room in Ostend after a crash at the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mansforced an end to his career.
Wolfgang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximilian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips
4 May 1928 – 10 September 1961, also known simply as Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips and nicknamed 'Taffy' by friends and fellow racers, was a German racing driver. He was the son of a noble Rhineland family
He participated in 29 Formula One World Championship Grand Prix races, debuting on 2 September 1956. He won two races, secured one pole position, achieved six podiums, and scored a total of 56 championship points.
