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. Branca mainly competed in privately owned Maserati 4CLT, in Formula One and Two races. Branca made his Formula One debut at the 1950 Swiss Grand Prix, finishing 11th, and briefly led the non-championship Formula One race in Circuit des Nations at Geneva in a Simca-Gordini. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Toni Branca is the 448th most popular racing driver (up from 472nd in 2019), the 574th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 572nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swiss Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Toni Branca ranks 448 out of 1,080. Before him are Emanuele Pirro, Graziano Rossi, Hiroshi Fushida, Pedro Lamy, Héctor Rebaque, and Guanyu Zhou. After him are Carlo Maria Abate, Richard Burns, Brian Henton, Eugenio Lazzarini, Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, and Wolfgang Seidel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Toni Branca ranks 245. Before him are Helene Hanff, Ondina Valla, Milton Babbitt, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, David Brown, and Lennart Klingström. After him are Roy Ward Baker, Dorothy Cheney, Julien Darui, Ken Wharton, Gaylord Nelson, and Don Keefer. Among people deceased in 1985, Toni Branca ranks 213. Before him are Roger Maris, Ina Claire, Zoot Sims, Andy Stanfield, Hilding Rosenberg, and Milton H. Greene. After him are Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, Ronnie Rooke, George Murdock, Masten Gregory, John Holt, and Maya Kristalinskaya.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Toni Branca ranks 574 out of 1,015. Before him are Max Miedinger (1910), Mario Frick (1974), Marc Rosset (1970), Bernard Challandes (1951), Richard Dürr (1938), and Elizabeth Thompson (1846). After him are Jacques Chessex (1934), Alfred Neveu (1890), Lauro Amadò (1912), Jo Vonlanthen (1942), Walter Graf (1937), and Georges Trombert (1874).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Switzerland

Among racing drivers born in Switzerland, Toni Branca ranks 11. Before him are Silvio Moser (1941), Mick Schumacher (1999), Romain Grosjean (1986), Heinz Schiller (1930), Max de Terra (1918), and Loris Kessel (1950). After him are Jo Vonlanthen (1942), Jean-Denis Délétraz (1963), Ottorino Volonterio (1917), Heini Walter (1927), Albert Scherrer (1908), and Sébastien Buemi (1988).

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