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The Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio was born in Balcarce in 1911. Until Michael Schumacher, he was the only one F1 driver who was five times World Champion. Subscribe to our free RSS Feed and get all the latest Formula 1 information. |
Besides these titles he also was a Vice-World Champion two times. Juan Manuel Fangio obtained first successes in the European motor racing only at a "high" age of 37 years. But then it went on in rapid succession. In 1950 he joined the new founded Formula One and became Vice-World Champion in his first year behind Nino Farina. In the following year he could win the title for the first time. In 1952 he had a serious accident in Monza and broke his neck. He struggled for his life for several hours. The accident happened because Fangio promised to take part at the race in Monza after his race in Budapest. Because he missed the connection he had to drive himself the whole night from Paris to Monza. Only half an hour before the race began he arrived and took up his starting position completely overtired. In 1954, Juan Manuel Fangio left Maserati and went to Mercedes where he won his second World Champion title. In the following three years nobody was able to defeat him and he won the title four times in a row. In 1958, Fangio drove his last race at the Grand Prix of France and afterwards retired. |
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