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Fangio A Pirelli Album By Stirling Moss (Paperback)

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Author: Stirling Moss, Softbound, 168 Pages, ISBN: 97818514587217, 1st Paperback Edition, 1992 - Second-Hand book in excellent condition !

Juan Manuel Fangjo is, quite simply, the greatest Grand Prix racing driver that has ever lived. Not only because he won a record five Formula One World Championships — two more than any other man — but also because his iron will, computer-like driving precision and uncanny ability to take calculated risks that always paid off combined to produce a dominant driving ability that was both feared and admired by his contemporaries.

In motor racing terms, Fangio was already an old man when in 1949 he came to Europe with his three car racing team sponsored by the Auto Club of Argentina. At 37 he had already become a superstar in his own country, where he had won many of the hair-raising long distance races of up to 5000 kms each, which typified motor sport in Argentina before and immediately after the Second World War. But he was completely untried on the Grand Prix circuits of Europe.

That he would become the greatest Grand Prix racer of all time never entered his head. He was, after all, just a mechanic from the potato-growing town of Balcarce. But in just over a decade, this mechanic won the Formula One World Championship of 1951 in an Alfa Romeo, 1954 and 1955 in a Mercedes, 1956 for E,nzo Ferrari and 1957 in a Maserati. Fangio's score of five world titles will, probably, never be equalled, much less beaten.

When the winning was over, Juan Manuel Fangio became a successful businessman and property owner and, to this day, is still Honorary President of Mercedes-Benz in Argentina. Everywhere he goes, Fangio is treated like royalty, a potential embarrassment he handles with great dignity and understanding.

Stirling Moss, himself the winner of 16 Grand Prix and four times runner-up in the Formula One World Championship, competed against Fangio for much of his Fl racing career. The two men, plus Karl Kling were the all-conquering Mercedes-Benz team of 1955.

There is nobody better than Moss, the best pure racer Britain has ever produced to discard the impersonal record books and tell us what it was like to have the great Fangio as an opponent, team-mate and friend. This book is a lavishly illustrated warm tribute by one great driver to the greatest Grand Prix racer of them all.


STIRLING MOSS took up racing in 1948 and at the age of 20, in 1950, won his first major victory — the Tourist Trophy. Five years later he partnered Fangio and after their victory Moss's career became part of racing legend.

His last full season was in 1961 with his victories in Monte Carlo and the Nurburgring after which came the tragic crash at Goodwood which nearly ended his life.

Still part of the British racing scene, however, Moss continues to influence the sport and this, together with his longstanding friendship with Fangio, makes him the ideal author of this special biography.

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