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Juan Manuel Fangio
Juan Manuel Fangio was an Argentine racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1958. Nicknamed "el Chueco" and "el Maestro", Fangio won five Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles and—at the time of his retirement—held the record for most wins (24), pole positions (29), fastest laps (23), and podium finishes (35), among others.
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business · Argentine racing driver (1911–1995) · entrepreneur · Formula One driver · racing automobile driver · also Juan Manuel Fangio, Juan-Manuel Fangio, Fangio
Born 24 June 1911 · Died 17 July 1995 · Q2069
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2026· 2 entries
El Destape: Fórmula 1: el homenaje que recibiría Juan Manuel Fangio si vuelve el Gran Premio de Argentina
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2021· 1 entry
The remains of Fangio were moved from the Balcarce Cemetery to the Museum that bears his name, in the same city where he was born and grew up more than 110 years ago, being the culmination of a ceremony that lasted two d
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2018· 1 entry
Praised Fangio calling him the "Godfather of our sport"
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2011· 1 entry
On the centenary of his birth, Fangio was remembered around the world and various activities were held in his honor
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2007· 1 entry
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of his fifth and final world championship triumph
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2005· 4 entries
In 2005, Rubén Juan Vázquez, a former railway and hotelier employee born in Balcarce and currently residing in the town of Cañuelas, filed a paternity suit similar to the one already filed by “Cacho” Espinoza to find out if he is indeed also Fangio's son.
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After ten years and after receiving an increasing number of comments about his resemblance to Fangio, not only physically but also in his voice, in 2005 Vázquez decided to confront his mother to find out the truth about whether or not he was the son of the former racer, although she was still weighed down by the extramarital relationship she had had with the “Chueco” decades ago.
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Vázquez decided to confront his mother to find out the truth about whether or not he was the son of the former racer, although she was still weighed down by the extramarital relationship she had had with the “Chueco” dec
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Rubén Juan Vázquez, a former railway and hotelier employee born in Balcarce and currently residing in the town of Cañuelas, filed a paternity suit similar to the one already filed by “Cacho” Espinoza to find out if he is
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2000· 1 entry
Espinoza publicly admitted in an interview to Olé that he was the former racer's unrecognized son and in 2008 he initiated a case in a Buenos Aires civil court to prove his filiation and to be able to use his paternal su
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1995· 1 entry
Died 1995-07-17.
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1994· 2 entries
For the 25th anniversary of the 84 Hours of Nürburgring 1969, they met again and only shook hands
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When he publicly opposed a new Province of Buenos Aires law denying driving licences to those over 80 (which included Fangio)
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1993· 2 entries
In Stuttgart, for which he had to be hospitalized
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Aboard an Alfetta 159 in the company of other figures of his time
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1992· 1 entry
Underwent surgery to remove a benign tumor from his kidneys
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1990· 1 entry
And continued to make public appearances especially in international exhibition races until his health began to deteriorate
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1987· 1 entry
The only distinction granted in its history by the German company, and held the position until 1994
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1981· 3 entries
Fangio travelled to Monza for the Italian Grand Prix, where he was reunited with his Tipo 159 Alfa Romeo from 1951 and the 1954 Lancia D50 for a couple of demonstrative laps
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After exhibiting a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR in Dubai, he had another heart attack
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Fangio participated aboard a Chevrolet TC in the Gran Premio del Recuerdo, a caravan held in 1983 through the center of the Buenos Aires city to raise funds for the Patronato de la Infancia and the Asociación de Ayuda al
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded diamond Konex award (1980).
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Konex Foundation granted him the Diamond Konex Award as the best Sportsman of the decade in Argentina
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1979· 2 entries
Some residents of the city of Balcarce began to promote the formation of a work commission to the construction of a Museum when they learned of Fangio's intention to gather all his trophies, cars and presents accumulated
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Raced at the English circuit of Donington Park on the occasion of an event organized by the Gunnar Nilsson Foundation
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1968· 1 entry
Fangio collaborated with Automóvil Club Argentino in the organization of the Formula 2 International Championship held in Argentina, a task that would become constant during the following years
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1960· 1 entry
Carried out an exhibition at the Sarmiento Park in Córdoba city, with a Maserati 2500 of Ettore Chimeri, with which he suffered a run off the track, brushed a curb and accidentally lifted into the air without conseque
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1957· 1 entry
Fangio returned to Maserati, who were still using the same iconic 250F which Fangio had driven at the start of 1954
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1956· 1 entry
Fangio moved to Ferrari to win his fourth title
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1955· 1 entry
Fangio began legal proceedings for the adoption of his own eldest son, something he abandoned shortly thereafter
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1954· 2 entries
And 1955 was sold for a record $30 million at an auction in England on 12 July 2013
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Fangio raced for Maserati until Mercedes-Benz entered competition in mid-season
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1953· 2 entries
The Carrera Panamericana in Mexico were much like the races he competed in South America in the 1940s (except all the roads used in Italy and Mexico were paved)
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Fangio rejoined Maserati for the championship season, and against the dominant Ferraris led by Ascari he took a lucky win at Monza
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1951· 1 entry
In the Swiss, French and Spanish Grands Prix, and with the new 4
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1950· 3 entries
Fangio was taken on by the Alfa Romeo team alongside Farina and Luigi Fagioli
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Going down a long straight called the Flying Kilometer, he was clocked doing 194 mph (310 km/h) in his Alfa
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To dominate the first decade of the championship
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1949· 1 entry
Winning four of them against top-level opposition
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1946· 1 entry
Fangio returned to racing with two races in Morón and Tandil driving a Ford T
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1945· 1 entry
In Balcarce and currently residing in the same City, underwent an initial DNA study with Oscar Fangio, who had known each other for more than three decades, although at that time both did not know they were brothers, bec
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1942· 1 entry
Took tenth place in the South Grand Prix
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1941· 1 entry
Fangio beat Oscar Gálvez in the Grand Prix Getúlio Vargas in Brazil, which was a six-day, 3,731-kilometre (2,318 mi) public road race starting from and ending at Rio de Janeiro, going through various cities and towns all
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1940· 1 entry
Competed with Chevrolet, winning the Grand Prix International Championship and devoted his time to the Turismo Carretera becoming its champion, a title he successfully defended a year later
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1938· 2 entries
Debuted in the newly-formed Argentine stock car racing series Turismo Carretera, competing in a Ford V8
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Fangio never married, but was romantically involved for more than twenty years with Andrea “Beba” Berruet, with whom he had a son on 6 April 1938: Oscar “Cacho” Espinoza.
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1936· 1 entry
Driving a 1929 Ford Model A that he had rebuilt
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1932· 1 entry
Was enlisted at the Campo de Mayo cadet school near Buenos Aires
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-06-24.
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