Juan Manuel Fangio (Spanish: [ˈxwan maˈnwel ˈfaŋxjo], Italian: [ˈfandʒo]; 24 June 1911 – 17 July 1995) was an Argentine racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1958. Nicknamed " el Chueco " and " el Maestro ", [b] 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 ...
Juan Manuel Fangio (born , Balcarce, Argentina—died , Buenos Aires) was an Argentine driver who dominated automobile-racing competition in the 1950s. Fangio began his Grand Prix career in 1948. He went on to win what is today called the Formula One (F1) drivers’ championship in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, and 1957.
Juan Manuel Fangio | Biography, Formula One, & Grand Prix Champion ...
Eleven years after his birth on , Fangio started working as a mechanic and then spent nearly four decades in that trade, while also racing primitive self-prepared cars in incredibly arduous South American long distance races that made Formula 1 events seem like child's play. By his superhuman efforts in these marathons of madness (held over thousands of miles for weeks at a time ...
Juan Manuel Fangio was an Argentine F1 driver who won the F1 Drivers' World Championship five times in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, and 1957.
Juan Manuel Fangio, a name synonymous with Formula One racing, stands as one of the most remarkable figures in motorsport history. Known as "El Maestro,"
The grandparents of Juan Manuel, come from the Province of Chietti, in Abruzzo, Italy. Loreto Fangio's parents were from the village of Castiglione Messer Marino. About 50 km away, in Tornarece, where the parents of Herminia Déramo lived. These families did not know each other. In 1887 the grandfather Giuseppe Fangio, came to Argentina, settling in the area of Laguna de los Padres, very close ...