Word: fangio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Fitch, in the most powerful car in the race, a 5.1-liter Chevrolet Corvette (four other Corvettes started out but two failed to last). But the blue-and-white American entry was quickly passed by Hawthorn in his grey D-Jag. Behind him was Moss in his Aston Martin. Fangio, the balding ex-bus driver who was the pampered protege of Argentina's deposed Dictator Juan Peron, ran an easy third...
...first big break came in midafternoon. Driven too hard in an effort to push the leader, Moss's Aston Martin quit, its gearbox a wreck. The race settled down to a duel between Hawthorn and Fangio. But after seven hours, Hawthorn's Jag began to lag. Desperately its mechs labored in the pits, but they took too long. Fangio got the lead for keeps, and during the final five hours gave a demonstration of an old master at work...
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...
With an average speed of 84.066 m.p.h., it had covered 194 laps and a record 1,000.08 miles. Second: Fangio's teammates, Luigi Musso and Harry Schell, in another Ferrari. Third: a D-Jag driven by Indianapolis' Jack Ensley and Indianapolis 500-mile Champion Bob Sweikert. Fitch's Corvette, only U.S.-made car in the first ten, came in ninth...