Roland Ratzenberger
Austrian racing driver (1960–1994)
- Fame60.6
- Momentum25.0
- Austria rank#127
He raced one Grand Prix, finished 11th, and died the next weekend at Imola—hours before Senna's crash made the same circuit a name everyone knows. The first Formula One fatality in twelve years, remembered now mostly as the tragedy that came first.
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Roland Ratzenberger came out of Salzburg through Walter Lechner's racing school at eighteen, won Formula Ford titles through the mid-eighties, and spent 1987 driving touring cars for Schnitzer—four podiums in ten races in the BMW M3. He cycled through British F3000, then moved to Japan with Toyota, racing sports prototypes and touring cars while entering Le Mans four times between 1990 and 1993, winning the C2 class in his final attempt. Simtek signed him for 1994; he failed to qualify in Brazil, started dead last at the Pacific Grand Prix and brought it home eleventh. A week later, during qua…
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- Simtek1994–1994
- Brun Motorsport
- Sigma Advanced Racing Development
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- WikidataHigh confidencewikidata · wikidata.org
- WikipediaHigh confidencewikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
- Pantheon 2.0High confidencedatabase · pantheon.world
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