Nurburgring 1957

Review of German GP 1957

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• f1
• gp
• germany
• 1957
• nurburgring
• fangio

[marianopicco]

To whoever said that Fangio doesnt have the fitness to race... Do you realize this race lasted 3 hours and a half?? And today's races last like 1 and a half... I mean the G forces werent as strong but come on, 3.30 hours is a feat. Fangio was a genius

[wysiwyg248]

Oh, one more piece of statistics:

Fangio started 51 races, he won 24, was second in 11 and third in 1. That means he was in the podium 70% of the time...

Betting on him was like money on the bank.

[unionrdr]

Yeah,I could even here 1-3 notes at the beginning of a TV add,& recite it. Kinda nerdy,huh!? lolz. My dad was southern,& liked stock cars. Got mad when I said "them ain't real race cars!". I loved F1 at 1st sight. Just couldn't help myself...Anyway,mom made us watch this "Neuvo Ballet" TV show,hence my saying they made it look like "mechanical ballet",knowing cars were mechanical thingies. Sounds strange,but I remember how I was back then...freak ol' time with anything cars.

[COYH10]

@unionrdr

You could talk at 1?

[unionrdr]

They didn't call Fangio "the maestro" for nothing. This race was the 1st race I watched on the old black & white TV back in 1957...I was 1! I'll never forget how he drifted a corner at the ring sideways (brake drift) at 150mph! I remember telling my father (who was a lil hacked at me for thinkin stock cars were not real race cars),that it looked like "mechanical ballet". (we had to watch"neuvo ballet" back then).

[Elbrusbase]

1- Ayrton Senna (Brazil) 3 2- Juan Manoel Fangio (Argentina) 5 3- Michael Schumacher (Germany) 7 4- Alain Prost (France) 4 5- Jim Clark (Scotland) 2 6- Gilles Villeneuve (Canada) 0 7- Emerson Fittipaldi (Brazil) 2 8- Niki Lauda (Austria) 3 9- Nelson Piquet (Brazil) 3 10- Graham Hill (England) 2

[jakethedane]

@wysiwyg248

Absolutely.

And that record, the percentage of wins, have never been topped

[twoteles]

And I met the greatman at Donington years ago!

(George Harrison was there, too, but Juan Manuel had more admirers!)

[Mefistico]

i think this is the most accurate comment on this

[wysiwyg248]

flugplatz21,

Fangio driving style was closer to Prost than Senna. He was a mechanic and cherished his cars.. he was proud to win a race at the lowest possible speed and by the minimum difference. In an interview, he proudly said most of the time, during a race he wouldn't even use fully the brakes to preserve them.

Fact is that out of the 8 yrs he spent in F1, he won 5 Championships and second in Two.