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...places last month at Sebring, Fla., the moody Italian intends to cut down his activities. For one thing, he is 65. For another, Ferraris barreling along at 160 m.p.h. have cracked up and killed an awesome roll of racing's best drivers-Ascari, De Portago, Von Trips, Castellotti, Musso. For all his ordinary tyranny with engineers, mechanics and drivers, Ferrari calls in his cars and broods whenever a driver dies. Taunts of "murderer" in Italian newspapers have only increased his determination to step down. Partly because he feels ill-treated in Italy, partly because he believes that Americans understand...
...Luigi Musso was a mere 100 yds. behind Britain's Mike Hawthorn. Musso gunned his Ferrari, hit the curve at 140 m.p.h., catapulted off the triangular course into a wheatfield, died. He was the last of Italy's great three. Alberto Ascari was killed in 1955; Eugenio Castellotti, Musso's closest friend and rival...
Last year at Sebring Fangio had finished first with a Ferrari. (His teammate then: the late Eugenio Castellotti, killed testing another Ferrari for this year's race...
...Maserati is too fragile to win. "There's no predicting when a silly thing will stop a driver just as quickly as a major breakdown," says he. A stark example of how "a silly thing"-gear failure-can suddenly alter the picture: Portage's own teammate, Eugenio Castellotti of Italy, who was one of his closest competitors for third place in Grand Prix standings, was killed last week while testing a Ferrari at Modena (see MILESTONES...
Died. Eugenio Castellotti, 26, wealthy Italian playboy and racing driver, who streaked to his greatest triumph by winning Italy's Mille Miglia last year; in a crash of his Ferrari during testing for the forthcoming Monaco race; in Modena, Italy...