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Juan Manuel Fangio

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You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.


— Juan Manuel Fangio


#everything #great #great pleasure #need #passion

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.


— Juan Manuel Fangio


#ball #bash #billiards #cue #drive

The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.


— Juan Manuel Fangio


#car #changed #component #damaged #driver

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.


— Juan Manuel Fangio


#crazy #finishes #man

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!


— Juan Manuel Fangio


#better #changed #english #everything #had

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.


— Juan Manuel Fangio


#little #my time #needed #speak #time

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany.


— Juan Manuel Fangio


#germany #i #learn #live #mercedes

Women rule our lives, don't they?


— Juan Manuel Fangio


#our #our lives #rule #women






About Juan Manuel Fangio

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Did you know about Juan Manuel Fangio?

One of the gunmen guarded the doorway while another pointed a pistol into Fangio's back and ordered him to leave the hotel. During the rest of his life after retiring from racing Fangio sold Mercedes-Benz cars often driving his former race cars in demonstration laps. Fangio had agreed to drive for Maserati in a non-championship race at Monza the day after the Dundrod race but having missed a connecting flight he decided to drive through the night from Paris arriving half an hour before the start.

After retirement Fangio presided as the honorary president of Mercedes-Benz Argentina from 1987 a year after the inauguration of his museum until his death in 1995. In 1940 he competed with Chevrolet winning the Grand Prix International Championship and devoted his time to the Argentine Turismo Carretera becoming its champion a title he successfully defended a year later.

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