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...continually critical as old Alfieri himself, Maserati's present owner, Adolfo Orsi, refuses to be satisfied, even with success. He got off to a fast start with one of last season's six-cylinder Grand Prix racers, which World Champion Juan Fangio drove to victory in the Argentine Grand Prix at Buenos Aires last month, setting a track record in the bargain. And Motorman Orsi is already tooling up a new twelve-cylinder racer...
...Sedici Cilindri a 16-cylinder job that set a 152.9 m.p.h. record at Cremona in 1929. But the Sedici Cilindri was a bastard car, with a power plant made of a pair of eight-cylinder engines, the two crankshafts coupled in a single gear box. The new twelve-cylinder Maserati is the precocious, all-in-one brainchild of Engineer Guilio Alfieri. Every part was specifically designed for the new racing...
Taste & Talent. A tour of duty tinkering with the great, slow-churning marine turbines of such ships as the Rex and the Conte di Savoia gave Alfieri a taste for hefty engines. At Maserati he is forever trying to balance his desire for a lot of cylinders with the racer's need for resistance to wear and tear. It took Giulio more than two years of arguing, pleading, cajoling, storming to convince Maserati's high brass that a twelve-cylinder engine was the logical evolution from their successful six-cylinder, 2.5-liter racer...
Since the Mercedes-Benz manufacturers decided to break up their factory racing team and 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...
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...