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...Mans, France, this summer, the 24-hour Grand Prix sports-car race was hardly finished when Winner José Froilan Gonzalez, 33, a strapping, ruddy Argentine, climbed from his Italian Ferrari and announced to all within earshot: "Fangio never won this...
...peculiar point of pride. Gonzalez' countryman, Juan Manuel Fangio, 43, had not even entered the race. But aficionados of the Grand Prix circuit understood. José Gonzalez, to hear Gonzalez tell it, is the best sports-car pilot on the road. But year after year the veteran Fangio kept winning the battle for Grand Prix points...
Suave Showman. A onetime bus mechanic, Fangio is a suave, taciturn showman who learned his racing in Argentina during World War II. By 1948 he was ready to go abroad. A skilled and careful driver, he whipped across the tracks of postwar Europe like a well-controlled whirlwind. Driving an Italian Alfa Romeo, he won a fistful of prizes...
...While Fangio was invading Europe. Gonzalez was burning up the tracks at home. But by 1950 Gonzalez, too, was campaigning abroad. And only one year later, driving a Ferrari, he was pushing Fangio hard for the Grand Prix championship. Brusque, stubborn and fearlessly heavy-footed, Gonzalez was a match for the best. "He never let go," said one competitor. "He would drive the pistons out of a car before he'd quit...
...Shifts. Last month, in the French Grand Prix race at Rheims, Germany's Mercedes-Benz was back in big-time auto racing after a long layoff. It seemed only natural that Fangio was picked to drive for the German team. Gonzalez, as usual, was on hand, hoping to beat Fangio. But after eleven laps Gonzalez pulled off the track, his Ferrari in flames. Fangio, in his Mercedes Silver Arrow, rolled home the winner...