Victorias de Fangio en Fórmula 1 - Campeonatos Mundiales.

RESUMEN

Juan Manuel Fangio was born in Balcarce on June the 24^th, 1911. At the age of ten years old, just being a student, he started to work in a blacksmith’s workshop. Then he kept on working for different trade marks’ concessionaires, like Ford, Rugby and Studebaker.

The first sports he embraced was football, and for a short time later he enjoyed boxing, too. In 1928, when he was seventeen, he was a co-pilot in a race beginning a career that was meant to be his passion: Cars’ racing.

In 1937, Fangio participated as a pilot in his first official competition and in 1940, he won the International North Grand Prix. It was a nine thousand and five hundred kilometres going and return race, between Buenos Aires - Argentina and Lima - Perú. The category he run in was called “Turismo Carretera” (TC). He was the Argentinian Champion in 1940 and 1941 with Chevrolet.

Competitions have been interrupted for five years due to the World War II. So he returned to the competition and in 1948, he almost lost his life running TC between Buenos Aires and Caracas –Venezuela in an overturning in Huanchasco, Perú.

In 1950, the Grand Prix of Formula 1’ history started. And there he was Fangio organising his team with Farina and Faglioli, running for Alfa Romeo. That year he won his first competition in Monaco and he became the under champion of the world.

In  1951 he got his first World Championship, running with an Alfa Romeo 159.

In 1952, a very dangerous accident in Monza, left him motionless for 6 months. He was back in 1953 to be a world under champion with Maserati A6SSG.

In 1954 he made a contract with Mercedes Benz to drive one of its most famous “Silver Arrow” W 196 and with that, in the same year, he achieved the world championship and the next one in 1955.

Mercedes racing cars were withdrawn out of the racetracks and in 1956, Fangio signed a contract with Ferrari in order to drive the Lancia Ferrari D50 to World championship. And there he got his fourth grand prix.

In 1957 he got his fifth and last world championship. He run a Maserati 250 F. And with it he won over the Ferrari’s cars of Hawrtorn and Collins at the devilish circuit of Nürburgring, considered itself as one of the greatest competitions in the history of the Formula 1.

By 1958, being  47 years old, Fangio retired out of the competition in Reims, leaving behind a very important participation in racing sports like Mille Miglia, Le Mans 24 Hours, Supercortemaggiore, La Habana, Targa Florio, Interlagos, Boa Vista, Tourist Trophy, Kristianstadt, Sebring and the Panamericana de Mexico among others, ending a historic record of 200 run races and  79 achievements.

The FIA, headed then by Louis Chiron and gathering all of his challengers of the tracks, said him goodbye giving him a trophy. This is at his Museum in Balcarce. In three gold hanging ornaments, the pilots Allison, Bonnier, Brabham, Evans, Gendebien, de Graffenried, Godia, Gregory and Hill give him homage “To Fangio”. Others like Moss, Hawthorn, Collins, Brooks, Flockhart and Salvatori, “To our teacher” and the rest of them, Chiron, Berha, Schell, Trintignant, von Trips, Maglioli, Menditeguy and Herrmann  dedicated it to “The best pilot of all the times”

Juan Manuel Fangio

Victorias en el Campeonato del Mundo de Conductores

1950

ALFA ROMEO

 21 MAY.        

GRAND PRIX DE MONACO - MONTECARLO

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1 - ALFA ROMEO 158.

  18 JUN.         

GRAN PREMIO DE BÉLGICA - SPA - FRANCORCHAMPS

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1 - ALFA ROMEO 158.

2 JUL.          

GRAND PRIX DE L'AUTOMOBILE CLUB DE FRANCE - REIMS  - 

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1 - ALFA ROMEO 158.

1951

ALFA ROMEO

27 MAY. 

GRAN PREMIO DE SUIZA - BERNA

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE  FÓRMULA 1 - ALFA ROMEO 159.

1 JUL.            

GRAND PRIX EUROPEO - REIMS - FRANCIA

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE  FÓRMULA 1 - ALFA ROMEO 159.

28 OCT.

GRAN PREMIO DE ESPAÑA, BARCELONA

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1 - ALFA ROMEO 159.

1953

MASERATI A6GCM

13 SET.                         

GRAN PREMIO DE ITALIA – MONZA

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 2 - MASERATI A6GCM

1954

            MASERATI 250F

17 ENE.           

GRAN PREMIO REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA - BUENOS AIRES

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1 - MASERATI 250F 

20 JUN.             

GRAN PREMIO DE BÉLGICA - SPA - FRANCORCHAMPS

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1 - MASERATI 250F

MERCEDES BENZ W196

4 JUL.              

GRAN PREMIO DE FRANCIA - REIMS

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1

MERCEDES BENZ W196  

1 AGO.          

GRAN PREMIO EUROPEO - NÜRBURGRING – ALEMANIA

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1

MERCEDES BENZ W196

22 AGO.            

GRAN PREMIO DE SUIZA - BERNA

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1

MERCEDES‑BENZ W196

5 SET.             

GRAN PREMIO DE ITALIA - MONZA

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1

MERCEDES‑BENZ W196

1955

MERCEDES BENZ W196

16 ENE.                         

GRAN PREMIO REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA - BUENOS AIRES

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1 - MERCEDES‑BENZ W196.

5 JUN.             

GRAN PREMIO DE BELGICA – SPA - FRANCORCHAMS

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1 – MERCEDES BENZ W196.

19 JUN.                         

GRAN PREMIO DE HOLANDA - ZANDVOORT

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1 - MERCEDES‑BENZ W196.

11 SET.                         

GRAN PREMIO DE ITALIA – MONZA

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1 –

MERCEDES‑BENZ W196.

1956

LANCIA-FERRARI D50

22 ENE                     .                                                                      

GRAN PREMIO REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA - BUENOS AIRES

CAMPEONATO DEL MUNDO DE FÓRMULA 1

LANCIA‑FERRARI D50.

14 JUL.              

GRAN PRIX DE INGLATERRA - SILVERSTONE

CAMPEONATO MUNDIAL DE FÓRMULA 1

 LANCIA-FERRARI D50.

5 AGO.            

GRAN PREMIO DE ALEMANIA - NÜRBURGRING

CAMPEONATO MUNDIAL DE FÓRMULA 1

LANCIA FERRARI D50.

1957

MASERATI 250F

13 ENE.          

GRAN PREMIO REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA - BUENOS AIRES

CAMPEONATO MUNDIAL DE FÓRMULA 1 - MASERATI 250F.

19 MAY.        

GRAND PRIX DE MONACO - MONTECARLO

CAMPEONATO MUNDIAL DE FÓRMULA 1 - MASERATI 250F.

7 JUL.              

GRAN PREMIO DE FRANCIA - ROUEN‑LES‑ESSARTS

CAMPEONATO MUNDIAL DE FÓRMULA 1 - MASERATI 250F.

4 AGO.             

GRAN PREMIO DE ALEMANIA - NÜRBURGRING

CAMPEONATO MUNDIAL DE FÓRMULA 1 - MASERATI 250F.

  

Juan Manuel FANGIO – Palmarés y estadística en Fórmula Uno

           Estadística                                                                            Número   Porcentaje

Número de Grand Prix                                                                       51            100,00%

Número de Largadas                                                                           51           100,00%

Número de Largadas en Primera Fila                                               48             94,10%

Número de Finalizados en puntos                                                      41             80,39%

Número de Finalizados en Podio                                                        35             68,62%

Número de Abandonos                                                                        15             29,41%

Número de Triunfos                                                                            24             47,05%

Número de Pole Positions                                                                   28             54,90%

Número de Récords de Vuelta                                                            23             45,09%

Número de Dobles (Pole Position y Triunfos)                                   13             25,49%

Número de Triples (Pole Position, Récord de Vuelta y Triunfos)    7              13,72%