Word: ferraris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tortuous, intermittently rain-slick racecourse at Sebring, Fla., the sleek Italian Ferrari sports cars had a field day. Factory-team Ferraris finished one-two in the twelve-hour International Grand Prix of Endurance, took five of the first ten places. Winner of the other five top spots: West Germany's small, beetle-like Porsche. Notably out of it: Britain's highly touted Aston Martin and Lister-Jaguar...
Roaring around the tracks of the world in his flame red Ferrari, Racing Driver Mike Hawthorn, 29, was all that hero-hungry Britons could ask for. His big body hunched in cramped cockpits, his face set in a ferocious scowl, their Mike was a throwback to Battle of Britain fighter pilots -a carefree daredevil with unruly flaxen hair and polka-dot bowtie. In eight lusty years, lead-footed Mike punished cars, survived six serious accidents -and last October became the first world champion in British racing history. Two months later moody Mike abruptly retired from racing, said...
Some of the reasons were plain. Ever since Mike drove in the 1955 Le Mans, where 83 were killed when a track mixup sent Pierre Levegh's Mercedes into the crowd, Grand Prix racing had not seemed quite the same. Last year came the fiery deaths of his Ferrari teammates, Italy's Luigi Musso and Britain's Peter Collins. At Musso's funeral, Mike grabbed Juan Fangio's hand and muttered: "We have to quit this." (Said Fangio: "That conversation finally decided me to retire...
Last month flaxen-haired Mike Hawthorn, 29, became the first Briton to win the world's driving championship (by a single point over Britain's Stirling Moss). Last week Hawthorn announced he was retiring. Saddened by the racing deaths this year of Ferrari teammates Peter Collins and Luigi Musso, Hawthorn decided to devote his energies to his garage in Surrey. Said the champion: "I can't properly explain all the reasons, even to myself, except that it's better to get out when...
...Extraordinario Argentino. Not until he was 38 did a manufacturer (Alfa Romeo) sign him up to race full time. In his second year under contract (1951), the phlegmatic Fangio won the world driving championship. He won it again four times in the next six years, driving for Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati and Mercedes-Benz. Twice he narrowly escaped death. In 1948 his car went off the road in the Grand Prix of South America, killing his partner. In 1952 he broke his neck in a race at Monza, Italy. But Fangio developed the delicate sense of touch that enabled...