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...Mans, France, this summer, the 24-hour Grand Prix sports-car race was hardly finished when Winner José Froilan Gonzalez, 33, a strapping, ruddy Argentine, climbed from his Italian Ferrari and announced to all within earshot: "Fangio never won this...
...peculiar point of pride. Gonzalez' countryman, Juan Manuel Fangio, 43, had not even entered the race. But aficionados of the Grand Prix circuit understood. José Gonzalez, to hear Gonzalez tell it, is the best sports-car pilot on the road. But year after year the veteran Fangio kept winning the battle for Grand Prix points...
While Fangio was invading Europe. Gonzalez was burning up the tracks at home. But by 1950 Gonzalez, too, was campaigning abroad. And only one year later, driving a Ferrari, he was pushing Fangio hard for the Grand Prix championship. Brusque, stubborn and fearlessly heavy-footed, Gonzalez was a match for the best. "He never let go," said one competitor. "He would drive the pistons out of a car before he'd quit...
...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 Mike Hawthrone, who clocked 89.10 m.p.h. In fourth place in a Mercedes-Benz came Argentine Star Juan Manuel Fangio, leading driver of the year, Gonzales' onetime mentor and now his archrival...
...winning driver: Argentina's Juan Manuel Fangio, now leading contender for the 1954 Grand Prix championship...