Word: castellotti
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...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...
...Rain slicked the winding mountain roads, slowing the entrants in Italy's 992-mile road race, the Mille Miglia. But before Milan's Eugenio Castellotti drove his tomato-red Ferrari to victory, two drivers and three spectators were killed, 16 others (including ten drivers) were injured...
Spitting Sparks. Fangio and his co-driver, Eugenic Castellotti, roared steadily on. Behind them, car after car dropped out with mechanical troubles. Argentina's Carlos Menditeguy turned over in his 2.9-liter Maserati, and was rushed to the hospital with a fractured skull...
With only 45 minutes left, the Ferrari's worn brakes were spitting sparks-but they had lasted long enough. At the final pit stop, Co-Driver Castellotti offered the car to Fangio, but Fangio magnanimously waved him on. "Eugenic, you finish," he said. "You've earned it." Then the world champion lit a cigar, slapped a battered canvas hat on his head, and settled back to watch his Ferrari slide home a winner...