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...Paulo. He was building and racing go-karts at 15, speedy competition cars by the time he was 20. At 22, he put together $3,300 and left Brazil for Britain to break into big-time European racing. Today, little more than three years later, Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi is the most successful race-car driver in the world. Last week he wheeled his Lotus around the 3.51-mile track at Monza, Italy, to win both the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix and 1972's World Championship of Drivers.† At 25, he is the youngest driver ever to earn...
...Grand Prix racing, there is a tendency, sometimes justifiable, to credit victory to the car rather than the driver. Fittipaldi has proved that he can win even with autos that lack a racer's edge. Several days before the Monza race, a truck carrying his newest Lotus-Ford Formula 1 racer blew a tire and threw the car into a pepper patch and out of the race. Mechanics managed to patch up a leaking gas tank in Fittipaldi's back-up car scant minutes before the race began...