Word: fangio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern technology and assembly-line production methods may be fine things in their places, but for the hapless car owner they are creating a a nerve-wracking situation. As cars have become faster, he has had to worry about amateur Fangio's hurtling into him on the nation's highways. And as cars have become more numerous, he has faced the even greater problem of finding a parking space on the city streets...
...triangular course at Pescara, Italy, Britain's Stirling Moss was never headed as he set a record for the Grand Prix of Pescara (2 hrs. 59 min. 22.7 sec.) and moved into second place in the race for the world championship. Second at Pescara: Juan Fangio, who already has won enough Grand Prix races for the championship...
...Monaco. Only four laps later Britain's Stirling Moss, Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn somehow escaped uninjured from a three-car pile-up on a barricade of telephone poles. All afternoon the accidents continued, but no one was hurt. Only five cars finished. Still, World Champion Juan Fangio had to push his Maserati to the limit to cross the line in 3 hr. 10 min. 12.8 sec., a scant half-minute ahead of Briton Tony Brooks's Vanwall...
...type disk brakes began to give trouble, and it began to drop back. Maserati's most consistent racing competitor, a 3.4-liter Ferrari, had also slowed down to nurse its brakes. The race was only nine hours old, but already only an accident could lose for Fangio. His excitable pit crew managed to get one of his teammates' cars disqualified by refueling it too often; later they doused his cockpit in gasoline. But he and Behra kept rolling in fine style. When the fireworks were touched off at 10 p.m. to signal the end of the race...
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...