Word: fangio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continually critical as old Alfieri himself, Maserati's present owner, Adolfo Orsi, refuses to be satisfied, even with success. He got off to a fast start with one of last season's six-cylinder Grand Prix racers, which World Champion Juan Fangio drove to victory in the Argentine Grand Prix at Buenos Aires last month, setting a track record in the bargain. And Motorman Orsi is already tooling up a new twelve-cylinder racer...
...coast on their winning reputation, only Ferrari seems to be in a position to challenge the new Maserati. But even the finest racing machine in the world would be nothing without the finest drivers. Maserati, fortunately, has the two best men in the business: Argentina's Juan Manuel Fangio and England's Stirling Moss. At 46, Fangio, who got his start as a Buenos Aires bus driver, is a four-time world champion. Under the benevolent sponsorship of Dictator Juan Peron he parlayed his home-town popularity into a wealthy G.M. distributorship in Buenos Aires. He has continued...
...wild twists and bends of the open road, the devil-may-care tactics of young (27) Stirling Moss make a flashy counterpart to Fangio's calm control. Fangio belongs to a school that believes any spectacular burst of speed is useless unless the driver finishes a race. To Moss, on the other hand, the trick is to floorboard the throttle and hope the car holds together. The exhilaration of acceleration more than makes up for worry about mechanical failure. For the last few years, that exhilaration has kept the nervy Briton nudging at Fangio's rear bumper...
...with his drivers and (unlike most automakers) 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...
...Fangio's fine performance, in addition to capturing $3,000 first prize money, earned third place for "index of performance," a complicated calculation by which achievement is measured against theoretically possible performance. First and second: two 1.5-liter German-made Porsches...