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The Museo Juan Manuel Fangio was established in Balcarce (Fangio's birthplace) in 1986. Argentina's largest oil company, Repsol YPF , launched the "Fangio XXI" gas brand. The Zonda 2005 C12 F , also known as the Zonda Fangio, was designed in honour of Fangio and was released 10 years after his death. [ 75 ]
The Mercedes-Benz W196 (sometimes written as the Mercedes-Benz W 196 R [1]) was a Formula One racing car produced by Mercedes-Benz for the 1954 and 1955 F1 seasons. Successor to the W194, in the hands of Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss it won 9 of 12 races entered and captured the only two world championships in which it competed.
The Cuban Grand Prix, also known as the Havana Grand Prix, was a sports car motor race held for a brief period in the late 1950s in Havana, Cuba, last raced in 1960. The 1958 race is best remembered as the backdrop to the kidnapping of Formula One World Champion driver Juan Manuel Fangio by anti-government rebels linked to the 26th of July ...
It is a bronze statue depicting Juan Manuel Fangio and his race car, a 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196. The sculpture corresponds to the actual size of the racing car and driver. Fangio has his right hand on the steering wheel and his helmet under his left arm. One foot stands on a deflector plate of the vehicle.
Juan Manuel Fangio is the only Drivers' Champion from Argentina winning the title five times in the 1950s. [1] Two other Argentine drivers have won a championship race: José Froilán González and Carlos Reutemann. 23 other Argentine drivers have driven F1 cars at race weekends, with many of them only racing once and failing to finish a single race.
The Ferrari 166 F2 is an open-wheel formula racing single-seater car, designed, developed and built by Italian manufacturer and team Scuderia Ferrari, for Formula 2 racing, in 1948. This is the car in which Argentinian driver, and eventual five-time Formula One world champion, Juan Manuel Fangio, became known in Europe. [1]
The 22 lap race was won by Juan Manuel Fangio, and is often cited as one of the greatest victories in racing history. It was Fangio's fourth victory out of the seven races in the season contested by Formula 1 cars - excluding the Indianapolis 500, in which only US drivers competed, using USAC Championship cars. Furthermore, due to the number of ...
Moss had pulled out only 8 seconds over Herrmann, who was pushing hard. Fangio's engine began to make unhealthy noises, and when the mechanics checked the engine, one of the very advanced fuel injection pipes had broken; the engine in Fangio's car was now running on 7 cylinders. Fangio’s Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR on the 2012 Mille Miglia