Rubens Gonçalves Barrichello is a Brazilian racing driver who competed in Formula One between 1993 and 2011.

Ascari was born in Milan, the son of Antonio Ascari, a renowned Grand Prix motor racing legend who raced Alfa Romeos in the 1920s.

Juan Manuel Fangio won the World Championship 5 times, a record that stood for 46 years until beaten by Michael Schumacher.

From 1972 to 1980, he raced in Formula One, winning the Drivers' Championship with Ferrari in 1979, he is still the only African to have won the F1 World Championship.

Jack Brabham was a Royal Australian Air Force flight mechanic and ran a small engineering workshop before he started racing.

Hunt won the 1976 World Drivers' Championship in his first year with McLaren, and he stayed with the team for another two years, though with less success.

Mario Gabriele Andretti is an Italian-born American former racing driver. Andrettti was born on February 28, 1940 in Italy.

He had won more Grand Prix races (25) and scored more Grand Prix pole positions (33) than any other driver at the time of his death, at the age of 32.

He was the first driver with the Williams team to win a Formula One World Championship, becoming World Drivers' Champion in 1980.

Jacques Villeneuve was born in 1971 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, a small town outside of Montreal in the province of Quebec.