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Almost as ingenious was an idea from Industrialist Henry Kaiser. At Cordoba, 400 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, he looked over the state-owned plant that produces cars, tractors, motorcycles, jet planes, light planes, gliders, parachutes, trucks and plastic boats. Kaiser's offer was to put $25 million into...
A Lot of Shifts. Last month, in the French Grand Prix race at Rheims, Germany's Mercedes-Benz was back in big-time auto racing after a long layoff. It seemed only natural that Fangio was picked to drive for the German team. Gonzalez, as usual, was on hand...
Just two weeks later, on a rain-soaked course at Silverstone, England, things were different. There were no long, straight stretches on which Fangio's Mercedes could wind up to top speed, and Gonzalez took his cat-quick Ferrari across the finish line in front. This week, at Niirburgring...
For 16 laps at Nürburgring, Gonzalez hung on grimly; then he gave up. Fangio and the Silver Arrow were too good. Averaging nearly 83 m.p.h. on the tricky course, Fangio finished first in 3:45:45.8. In second place, in Gonzalez Ferrari: England's Mike Hawthorn. Said...
¶ At Silverstone, England, Argentina's Froilan Gonzales pushed his Italian Ferrari into an early lead, raced for 270 miles around a twisting, rain-soaked course to win the British Grand Prix with an average speed of 89.69 m.p.h. In second place in another Ferrari was England's...