The Most Famous
RACING DRIVERS from Hungary
This page contains a list of the greatest Hungarian Racing Drivers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,080 Racing Drivers, 2 of which were born in Hungary. This makes Hungary the birth place of the 39th most number of Racing Drivers behind Malaysia, and Philippines.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Hungarian Racing Drivers of all time. This list of famous Hungarian Racing Drivers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Gábor Talmácsi (b. 1981)
With an HPI of 46.05, Gábor Talmácsi is the most famous Hungarian Racing Driver. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Gábor Talmácsi (born 28 May 1981 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian former professional motorcycle racer. He was the 2007 125cc World Champion, and he is the first and only Hungarian to win a road racing World Championship. He has a younger brother, Gergő, who is also a motorcycle racer. Due to a leg injury suffered in 2013, Talmácsi has retired from racing professionally. After retiring from racing, he set up his own team Talmácsi Racing, which competed in the European Superstock 600 Championship and raced with Honda CBR600RRs, until the series folded at the end of 2015.
2. Vivien Keszthelyi (b. 2000)
With an HPI of 34.71, Vivien Keszthelyi is the 2nd most famous Hungarian Racing Driver. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Vivien Keszthelyi (born 7 December 2000) is a Hungarian racing driver who started her career at the age of 13. She is a member of the Audi Sport Racing Academy. Keszthelyi started her professional career in 2014, in the Suzuki Swift Cup Europe series. She became the youngest and only female member of Audi Sport Racing Academy in 2015, also becoming the first Hungarian racing driver with factory connection. In 2016, she won her first races in an Audi TT in the Central European Zone Trophy, where she won both the sprint and the endurance categories. In 2017, Keszthelyi became the youngest Hungarian point scorer in international series, when she competed in the Audi Sport TT Cup. In 2018, she finished second in the Audi Sport R8 Cup, making her the youngest female racing driver in the international GT4 championships to finish the season in the top 3.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Hungarian racing drivers born between 1981 and 2000. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Hungarian racing drivers include Gábor Talmácsi, and Vivien Keszthelyi. As of April 2024, 1 new Hungarian racing drivers have been added to Pantheon including Vivien Keszthelyi.
