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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...
...tough field," said World Champion Racing Driver Juan Manuel Fangio. as he looked over his competition at Florida's "International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance." "But if my car holds...
Slip-Stick Specialist. Fangio's swift, shovel-nosed, 34-liter Ferrari had all the power and acceleration a skillful driver needs, but its conventional drum-and-shoe brakes were not designed for that demanding course. The best of Fangio's competitors had cars that seemed better fitted. Former British Champion Mike Hawthorn was at the wheel of a big (20 cc. more displacement than the Ferrari), D-type Jaguar fitted out with husky disc brakes, a type relatively unaffected by heat. Current British Champ Stirling Moss was driving a light (2.9-liter), cat-quick Aston Martin, also with...
...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...