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...weeks ago TIME sized up the line-up for the year's big auto racing, came to the conclusion that Italy's Maserati was the car most likely to sweep the grand prizes, foresaw more loving cups for World Champion Driver Juan Manuel Fangio and the rest of the Maserati team. The conclusion was borne out at last week's Sebring, Fla. Grand Prix test, as Winner Fangio was quick to note. See SPORT, Fireworks for Fangio...
Since 1950, when they began playing host to the country's biggest sports-car race, Sebring's citizens have learned to make sense of the foreign names and the continental accents that color the annual invasion of their sleepy town. They have learned to tell a Maserati from a Ferrari; they know a Mercedes-Benz when they see one. But Goldich's death was Sebring's first Grand Prix fatality. Now, at last, the spectators knew the danger and fear that ride with the high-speed racers...
...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 failure...
...richest men, turned 21, was cheered by the gift of a $425,000 Beverly Hills estate, complete with waterfall, from his sixfold-married mamma, Heiress Barbara Hutton. Two days later, Speed Demon Reventlow, who flies low about town in a Mercedes-Benz and races in a scarlet Maserati, was uncheered on getting the boot from the Sports Car Club of America. Paying no mind to young Reventlow's third-place victory in an amateur sports-car race in Florida a year ago, the club, which permits no minors to race under its aegis, suspended Lance upon learning that...
...there is anything at all needed to round out the Maserati racing 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...