Word: fangio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago TIME sized up the line-up for the year's big auto racing, came to the conclusion that Italy's Maserati was the car most likely to sweep the grand prizes, foresaw more loving cups for World Champion Driver Juan Manuel Fangio and the rest of the Maserati team. The conclusion was borne out at last week's Sebring, Fla. Grand Prix test, as Winner Fangio was quick to note. See SPORT, Fireworks for Fangio...
More than Speed. On the track the other drivers settled stoically to their work. Steadily, the high, whining scream of a big (4.5 liters) bright red Maserati moved out in front of the pack. Handled by World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio and France's Jean Behra, a pair of extraordinarily delicate car conservers, the 400-h.p. Maserati was in fact taking it easy. No one knew better than Fangio and Behra that speed alone is not enough on Sebring's demanding course; the trick is to keep a car going all the way to the finish...
...Lose. The personal timetable with which Portago has charted his course to the world's championship does not necessarily call for a Sebring victory this year. But the leading point-winners on the international circuit-Argentina's Juan Fangio and Britain's Stirling Moss-will both be driving Maseratis (TIME, Feb. 18), and Portago is inclined to think that the 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...
Talents of Two Schools. With the skill of its two other drivers, France's Jean Behra and Argentina's Carlos Menditeguy, to back up Fangio and Moss, the Maserati team will be the favorite in almost every race on the fat Grand Prix calendar ahead. They will be trying for the Cuban Grand Prix at Havana later this month. They will be at Sebring, Fla. in March...
...stable, it is a young Italian driver. "It is a matter of pride to us," says Omar Orsi, Adolfo's son and manager of the racers, "that all the great racing drivers, whatever cars they may win in now, all started first at the wheel of a Maserati. Fangio in 1947, Moss in 1954, the great Ascari who was twice world champion, Villoresi, Collins, they all started with us. There is practically no victory anywhere in the world to which Maserati hasn't contributed a little...