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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...
...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...
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...
...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...