I watched Fangio win the German Grand Prix with that car in '57. Good God almighty, I've never seen a man so damned determined to get his lead back after a long pit top! Except for one other...Tazio Nuvolari!
@@philippbehrend5559 If that was the time he drove with a broken leg, yeah. But Fangio did better overall in his career. He held the record for 5 world driving championships for some 45 years.
@@unionrdr he drove a shitty 3 year old Alfa and beat the mighty Mercs and Auto Unions at their home track. But you are right his career wasn't as spectacular as Fangio's, although he wasn't a slouch. He was a motorcycle champ and grand prix champ, as well as winner of the targa. He won pretty much with anything with wheels on it
From the cockpit, the straight cut gearbox nearly drowns out the engine. Imagine driving these cars in their heyday, on a circuit lines not with runoff areas and safety barriers, but with trees, stone walls, wire fences and spectators. It gives me chills. Oh, and watch the Cooper ahead of him get up on its tippy toes as it gets light coming out of Eau Rouge at about 9:14!
do his gloves say J Fangio? if so, how dare you good sir. i dont think they do, i think its his own name. must have been my imagination. he is quite a gifted driver. im beginning to suspect that he is the owner, or at least by extension. he seems quite comfortable in the car, and his gloves add to my suspicion.
That's because the V12s were pretty much experimental designs. By the end of the 1957 season, all they learned from making the V12 work is that it's not the way to go. So afterwards, the V12 cars had the V12 engines removed, a 6 cylinder engine fitted in, and was sold... There's at least 1 of the 1957 V12 works cars that had been reunited with the V12, in a way, and was raced for quite a bit by Max Werner, but it wasn't seen much after they sold it...
It is an original car, and a very special one. It is 2501, one of the first made. Used by the works team for a long time (1954-1957), won the 1956 Australian GP with Stirling Moss driving, and then sold in 1958, to Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first female Formula One driver, who competed with it in several races during the season.
