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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2011 16:15:32 GMT -5
Was looking up some info on line on the Crosley car and it somehow tripped a memory bank on Juan Manuel Fagio. I'm sure Peter knows a lot more about him than I do. Fagio, from Argentina, was world F1 driving champ five times back in the 1950s in an era when few drivers lived long enough to die of old age. And he was in his 40s during his most successful period. I read one account where he was leading in a race and his pit crew messed up and when he go back on the track he was 35 seconds behind the cars running in first and second. During the rest of the race almost every lap he ran was faster than his qualifying lap and he won!
He retired after the 1958 season and lived until the mid 1990s.
. There are quite a few Youtube pictures of him driving.
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Post by Randy on Sept 16, 2011 22:10:25 GMT -5
Stupid automatic censor didn't like fag.
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Post by daveh on Sept 17, 2011 14:10:41 GMT -5
I think there is a missing 'n' - Fangio.
Many died too young on the track. Some like Hill (Graham), Hailwood and Hawthorne joined them, but in 'normal' plane or road accidents.
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Post by nikkortorokkor on Sept 17, 2011 17:39:38 GMT -5
There are so many stories circulating about Fangio's brilliance. (Fangio, of course, never circulated, but raced). I like the one about the time at Monte Carlo when he slowed in time to avoid an unseen (to him) crash on the next corner. Asked how he knew to slow, Fangio replied that normally when he came into a corner he'd see a sea of faces on the barrier as the crowd watched him intently. This time, there was a sea of black - the back of the crowd's collective heads. They were not watching Fangio. Something more spectacular had caught their attention, ergo there was a crash ahead. All this analysis made in a split second entering a corner.
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Post by photax on Sept 19, 2011 12:32:18 GMT -5
As I was a very young child, must have been 1969, Jochen Rindt organized the "Jochen Rindt Sportscar Show" in Vienna. My dad and I went there and Rindt, Hill, Fangio and many others signed my Formula-1 poster. Many years later, as I understood from whom these autographs are, I had lost the poster. Never found it again, what a pitty...
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Post by daveh on Sept 19, 2011 17:01:52 GMT -5
There must be a drawer somewhere in the world full of all those things we have had and mislaid. I had an autograph book, which is also in that drawer, with a signed photo of Ken Wharton. Although not as well known as MIK's three, he was racing in Formula One in the early 1950s. He was killed during a race at the age of 40.
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