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...Lose. The personal timetable with which Portago has charted his course to the world's championship does not necessarily call for a Sebring victory this year. But the leading point-winners on the international circuit-Argentina's Juan Fangio and Britain's Stirling Moss-will both be driving Maseratis (TIME, Feb. 18), and Portago is inclined to think that the Maserati is too fragile to win. "There's no predicting when a silly thing will stop a driver just as quickly as a major breakdown," says he. A stark example of how "a silly thing"-gear...
...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...
Talents of Two Schools. With the skill of its two other drivers, France's Jean Behra and Argentina's Carlos Menditeguy, to back up Fangio and Moss, the Maserati team will be the favorite in almost every race on the fat Grand Prix calendar ahead. They will be trying for the Cuban Grand Prix at Havana later this month. They will be at Sebring, Fla. in March...
...stable, it is a young Italian driver. "It is a matter of pride to us," says Omar Orsi, Adolfo's son and manager of the racers, "that all the great racing drivers, whatever cars they may win in now, all started first at the wheel of a Maserati. Fangio in 1947, Moss in 1954, the great Ascari who was twice world champion, Villoresi, Collins, they all started with us. There is practically no victory anywhere in the world to which Maserati hasn't contributed a little...