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...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 that title...
...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...
...Austrian Grand Prix last month, Fittipaldi, the No. 1 contract driver for the Lotus-Ford team, passed up the group's top car (which had been having steering and transmission problems) for the older back-up model. Though his choice had a balky engine, Fittipaldi won the 198-mile race by 1.18 seconds over Former World Champion Denis Hulme of New Zealand. The Italian triumph was Fittipaldi's fifth Formula 1 Grand Prix victory in ten races this season-a remarkable record for a driver only in his second full Grand Prix season. At that torrid pace...
Brazil's new hero comes by his chosen profession naturally enough. His father, a former competition driver, is a motor-racing journalist and broadcaster. His mother, who named her son after Ralph Waldo Emerson, has raced sports cars. His older brother Wilson, 28, also races on the Grand Prix circuit. The elder Fittipaldis tried to interest their sons in a less violent form of racing-in sailboats. It did not work. "We always finished last," Emerson remembers. "We were a disaster sailing." Last is a position Emerson is not likely to see in his accelerating career on the road...
...winner is determined by the total points collected in twelve Grand Prix races. Although two of these races (the Canadian and American) have not yet been held, Fittipaldi already has enough points (61) to clinch the title...