Word: fangio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mans, France, this summer, the 24-hour Grand Prix sports-car race was hardly finished when Winner José Froilan Gonzalez, 33, a strapping, ruddy Argentine, climbed from his Italian Ferrari and announced to all within earshot: "Fangio never won this...
...peculiar point of pride. Gonzalez' countryman, Juan Manuel Fangio, 43, had not even entered the race. But aficionados of the Grand Prix circuit understood. José Gonzalez, to hear Gonzalez tell it, is the best sports-car pilot on the road. But year after year the veteran Fangio kept winning the battle for Grand Prix points...
...miles around a twisting, rain-soaked course to win the British Grand Prix with an average speed of 89.69 m.p.h. In second place in another Ferrari was England's Mike Hawthrone, who clocked 89.10 m.p.h. In fourth place in a Mercedes-Benz came Argentine Star Juan Manuel Fangio, leading driver of the year, Gonzales' onetime mentor and now his archrival...
...winning driver: Argentina's Juan Manuel Fangio, now leading contender for the 1954 Grand Prix championship...
...Sebring's zigzag course had already taken a breakdown toll of cars-among them two British Aston-Martins and a Cadillac-Allard-and soon flagged down more. Fangio's Lancia went out with what the Lancia pits called ignition trouble (the word went round that it had really suffered a broken gearbox or a snapped rear axle). Midway, Taruffi's Lancia (No. 38) held the lead, but Ascari's Lancia was out with clutch trouble...