Word: castellotti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...gives them a guaranteed minimum, win or lose, thus has his pick of the world's best drivers. He picks his pilots with the care he puts into tuning an engine, teams a cool, canny technician such as World Champion Juan Fangio with a hotspur such as Eugenio Castellotti, who won this year's Mille Miglia...