He is known as 'bandy legs'. They don't make them like Juan Manuel Fangio anymore. He is the one of the greatest racing driver of all time. The 'master', as he was popularly known, dominated the first decade of Formula One (F1) racing and won the world championship five times. That record stood for 46 years before a certain someone from Germany in the Ferrari broke that record.
Racing at a time when safety was not uppermost on the drivers' mind and with almost no protective equipment, Fangio possessed some of the greatest innate driving abilities that his or any other age had seen. He likened racing to painting and believed it was both a fine art and a science. Much like today's mercenary F1 drivers, Fangio had a knack for soptting the best cars and won his world titles with four different teams. In 1958 he abruptly retired, saying, "it's finished". He passed away on july 17, 1995 at the age of 84.
CAREER STATISTICS:
Seasons:9/ Races:51/ F1 Titles 5( 1951,1954,1955,1956,1957 )/ Fastest Laps:23/ Wins:24/ Poles:29.
