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DRIVERS WHO DIED IN F1 (36):
Alberto Ascari died in 1955
1950s (9):
1952
Luigi Fagioli (Italy), 54 years old
Team: Alfa Romeo
Monaco GP training
1953
Felice Boneto (Italy), 50 years old
Team: Maserati
mexico GP
1954
Onofre Marimón (Argentina), 31 years old
Team: Maserati
German GP training (Nurburgring)
1955
Alberto Ascari (Italy), 36 years old
Team: Lancia
Private training in Monza, Italy
1957
Eugenio Castellotti (Italy), 27 years old
Team: Ferrari
Private training in Modena, Italy (trying to beat the Maserati record)
1958
Luiggi Musso (Italy), 34 years old
Team: Ferrari
French GP
Peter Collins (Great Britain), 27 years old
Team: Ferrari
German GP (Nurburgring)
Stuart Lewis-Evans (Great Britain), 28 (suffered severe burns in the race and died a few days later in England)
Team: Vanwall
Moroccan GP
1959
Jean Behra (France), 38 years old
Team: Ferrari
German GP (sports car race in a Porsche)
Von Trips died in 1961
1960s (10):
1960
Chris Bristow (Great Britain)
Team: Cooper
Belgian GP
Alan Stacey (Great Britain) was hit by a bird at 220 km/h
Team: Lotus
Belgian GP
Curiosity: Bristow and Stacey died in the same race, unique in F1.
Harry Shell (USA), 39 years old
Team: Cooper
Private training in Silverstone, England
1961
Wolfgang von Trips (Germany), 32 years old
Team: Ferrari
Italian GP
Fun fact: Von Trips owned the Kerpen circuit that years later would be the track managed by the Schumacher family.
1962
Ricardo Rodrigues (Mexico), 20 years old
Team: Ferrari
Mexico GP training
1964
Carel Godin de Beaufort (Netherlands), 30 years old
Team: Porsche
German GP training
1966
John Taylor (Great Britain), 33 years old
Team: Brabham
German GP
1967
Lorenzo Bandini (Italy), 32 years old
Team: Ferrari
As a result of an accident at the Monaco GP
Bob Anderson (Great Britain), 36 years old
Team: Brabham
Private training in Silverstone, England
1968
Joseph Schlesser (France), 40 years old
Team: Honda
French GP
Jochen Rindt died in 1970
1970s (10):
1970
Piers Courage (England), 28 years old
Team: Tomaso
Dutch GP
Jochen Rindt (Austria), 28 years old
Team: Lotus
Italian GP training
1971
Joe Siffert (Switzerland), 35 years old
Team: BRM
Championships in England (Brands Hatch)
1973
Francois Cevert (France), 29 years old
Team: Tyrrell
US GP training
Roger Williamson (Great Britain), 25 years old
Team: March
Dutch GP
1974
Peter Revson (USA), 35 years old
Team: Shadow
Private training in Kyalami, South Africa
Helmut Koinigg (Austria), 25 years old
Team: Surtees
US GP training (headless)
1975
Mark Donohue (USA), 38 years old
Team: Penske
Austrian GP training (He died two days later from a blood clot in his brain)
1977
Tom Pryce (England), 28 years old
Team: Shadow
GP South Africa (hit by the track inspector's fire extinguisher)
1978
Ronnie Peterson (Sweden), 34 years old
Team: Lotus
As a result of an accident at the Italian GP
Gilles Villeneuve died in 1982
1980s (4):
1980
Patrick Depailler (France), 35 years old
Team: Alfa Romeo
Private training in Hockenheim, Germany
1982
Gilles Villeneuve (Canada), 30 years old
Team: Ferrari
Belgian GP training
Ricardo Paletti (Italy), 23 years old
Team: Osella
Canadian GP
1986
Elio de Angelis (Italy), 28 years old
Team: Brabham
Private Workouts in Paul Richard, France
Ayrton Senna died in 1994
1990s (2):
1994
Roland Ratzemberger (Austria), 31 years old
Team: Simtek
San Marino GP training
Ayrton Senna (Brazil), 34 years old
Team: Williams
San Marino GP
2000s (0):
NO PILOT
Decade of 2010 (1):
2015
Jules Bianchi (France), 25 years old
Team: Marussia
GP Japan 2014 (he was in a coma and died on 7/17/2015)
Jules Bianchi died in 2015