I met Fangio in 1992. He went to the school where I studied and I was able to see him up close and listen to him. His presence emanated a kind of special aura, which we could all feel. Then I have read about F1 drivers who have felt this same aura in him. Amazing!
IMHO the greatest of all time. That reputation spanned decades. When I was a teenager learning to drive in 1979, my father would say "Oy! Fangio! Slow down!"
None of his traits that made him the unquestionable undeniable GOAT were greater than his humility and his complete lack of arrogance His kind at best come along once every century
I grew up a big Jim Clark fan, but I have to admit Fangio was probably the greatest driver of all time. To drive 8 years in Formula one in that era of fragile cars and no seatbelts was a remarkable feat.
It isn’t the number of World Championships that make Fangio the greatest, it is the way that he achieved it. Always a gentleman driver in his races, he drove very fair. Fangio always had the ability to drive for the team that he thought would give him the best chance of victory. Not only did Fangio drive in formula 1, he also drove just as well in saloon car and sports car races often on the same day, unlike more recent drivers. Fangio never had any radio communication with the pits, his only communication with his team was a sign hung out on a board. It was up to Fangio to deal with any mechanical problems with the car which he did very well. It is all these various issues that make him the best. Fortunately I was there to see him achieve many of his victories.
13:28 - 16:17 In a primitive, skinny-tired car on a bumpy, dirt-covered track, Fangio extracts every possible mph, clipping each apex within millimeters and drifting on exit to each corner's maximum width. From inside we see Fangio battle the car, using multiple steering corrections and braking hard at the last possible moment. But shots from outside the car show it to be circulating the track with uncanny smoothness and fluidity. His mastery deserves to be acknowledged even to this day.
They are far from primitive, in fact they reach the same top speed as modern f1 are lighter and handle better on circuit with lot's of straight. In term of speed and tech compare them with supercar car from the late 90s-early 2000 minus the cornering capability. ( 4.5s to 100kmh is nothing to laught about )
I was born a few generations too late. Juan Manuel Fangio, in my mind, was the greatest to ever drive a racing car. Before him, with him, after him… none have been better. 👏🏼
@F1 Navy That’s an interesting way of stating that your opinion on the question matters no more than mine. 😉 With perhaps Jim Clark being the only ‘rival’ that might come close to Fangio in terms of having a supernatural feel & control of the car, even Clark himself bawked at comparisons. Yes, ‘the greatest of all time’ is a subjective metric. So much goes into success in racing. Driver, team, equipment, sponsors, etc. All of that is true. Yet I’ve heard more World Drivers Champions point to Juan Manuel Fangio as the metric.
However, it was Fangio, himself who said that Jim Clark was the very best of all - and that in the time of Senna, Prost etc. Maybe that also exemplifies his humility
@@morganrees6807 It’s that unassuming humility that’s almost as impressive to me as the skill as a racer. How a guy can maintain that with all the fame & adulation imaginable seems impossible. Yet a number of champions somehow did. Fangio, Clark, Prost… they surely had their ego, yet they could keep it in check. All the more to admire about them I think.
No matter what modern racing drivers are destined to achieve in the future - whether they would win 7, 8 or even 10 titles during their careers. This man is an ULTIMATE LEGEND - irreplaceable, inoutscoreable, untouchable! Keep in mind that the cars of the 50s were literally coffins on wheels - non-existant safety features or regulations, stone-age kind of helmet designs, goggles, no seatbelts, no safety cages around the chassis - you had to have serious balls and tons of bravery to push pedal to the metal in primitive circuits when tragedy was never too far away and anyone could have become the next victim for their passion for racing. Those guys, in comparison to the current, technologically advanced fellow drivers today, were literally GLADIATORS in the industry!
Long tale. I'm a Somm and back in the early 2000's I was the "wine host" for a high end private dinner for the Ford Blue Oval racing team (A dealer org.) in Indianapolis on a Friday night before F1. As a brief presenter I was seated at the guest speaker's table. Seated with me were a couple of Ford execs, a little Irish Leprechaun and his stunningly lovely, and great fun Amazonian wife. One of the greatest divers of all time and a gentle little man, Phil Hill and Alma his wife were just a treat. I pestered him with questions at every opportunity and he had some great tales and answers. I was introduced to Michael S. and J.P. Montoya, at the same dinner. Michael Schumacher, Juan and Phil all in the same room, I'm very lucky. I saw all the Indy F1 races of that era in person, those 19,000 rpm V10s... A couple years later at the Historic races at Leguna Seca, (Maserati year I think) I watched him run his 1963 Aston, he left a wee bit of green paint on the track that day. I spoke with him that weekend, finding him under a car in half peeled Nomex. He instantly remembered me and we spoke for a short time while he wrenched. A true Prince among men. When asked, "Okay, who's the real best"? Zero hesitation: Fangio! Then he told me some funny tales of Fangio terrorizing unsuspecting Italian villages while out "testing" Ferrari mules on the ummmm... test track.
Just watched this and started looking for the book I remember reading in grade school about Moss’s Mille Miglia win with Denis Jenkinson as his navigator and the rolling assembly that fed them information on the impossible course they ran.
Gran tributo siempre hay que recordar a gente que dio ejemplo fuera y dentro de las pistas gracias por recordarlo soy Salvador de argentina y en mi canal estuve en el museo les gustará amigos bueno un gran saludo 👋 amigos desde Argentina
Dentro y fuera? Que me importa lo que hizo fuera del automovilismo? Si le hubiera pegaba a la mujer, hubiera sido nazi o matara perros por placer, seria menos genial en la formula 1? Fangio es, fue y sera el mejor por lo que hizo en las pistas. Era corredor de automovilismo, mecanico, estratega, excelente, y es todo lo que importa.
It's a shame we don't have a series as mechanically pure as those early cars, where it was man and machine together competing. Although I enjoy modern racing it does seem rather sterile compared to the simpler times.
Excelente , felicitaciones , no hay palabras para expresar la alegria que ha dado y seguirá dando , haciendo correctas comparaciones , nunca habrá otro igual . Sería bueno que tuviera traducción , solo porque el es argentino de habla castellano . Mucha Salud .
His years with Mercedes-Benz were the best. Daimler Benz basically has unlimited budget and resources. Streamlined long tail coupes for Monza and Rheims were the best…
Can you imagine today's drivers in those cars, with those skinny tires, crash box transmissions, no safety equipment, on the crappy tracks they drove on, at the speeds they raced?
I became interested in F1 racing when I was 7, in 1952 when I first heard about Fangio, Ascari, and Farina. It was Fangio that was my favorite, even though I really didn't know why. He was my "guy" until I discovered Stirking Moss, then it waa Fangio and Moss until Fangio retired. I still think he is top 2 or 3 best ever given 5 WDCs in his 40s, driving the dangerous cars of the day and on tracks with little in the way of safety. 150+ mph on skinny bias ply tires, no seat belts, questionable helmets, short sleeve polo shirts...those were men, and Fangio was THE man.
What are your thoughts on Clark, Schumi, and Hamilton? Really curious to hear the perspective of someone who's been watching for so long. Do you have a favorite rivalry (Senna/Prost, Hamilton/Rosberg etc)?
@@kerb23 I considered Jimmy Clark to be the best driver in his era (1960-1968), and one of the very best ever.. Of course, he had one of the best cars of the period as well, but he drove sportscars, rally, saloon, and Indycars, all at an exceptional.level. It's a little harder to judge Schumacher and Hamilton, I think. both of whom were/are arguably the best of their eras as well, but harder to assess their skills, as they primarily drove F1 cars exclusively. I give a slight edge to Svhumacher. as I think he was instrumental in the development of Ferrari's F1 successes, There is, imo, little doubt Hamilton is the best driver of the current period. We are, of course, leaving out Lauda, Senna, and Prost from the discussion, all of whom were exceptional talents. It's all just my personal observations and opinions, of course. Seeing the evolution of F1 cars over the last 60+ years has been incredible. As for rivalries, I think Senna/ Prost would be my #1.
@@tomsmith5216 Thanks man! So cool to hear this type of perspective. I only started watching in 2020 but I've been fascinated by the more historic aspects of F1 for a while
@@kerb23 Good question... They would have to be close to that level. Their accimplishments certainly would indicate it. I hadn't thought about that until you mentioned it. 🙂🤔
He is the best driver ever.In the 1957 German GP he used one gear ahead of all the other drivers.Fourth gear instead of third and fifth instead of fourth and not using the brakes.Unbelievable
at 21:30...german grand prix 1957... his greatest race... loses near a minute in a pitstop then breaks the lap record ten times in the next 22 laps to win the race...wow.
The driving skills you must have had in those days meant you had to be made of the same "right stuff" as astronauts. Most current F1 drivers would be rather mediocre in such cars, if not scared stiff.
Hamilton may be the most successful F1 driver, but Fangio will always be the greatest Racing Driver. I was born the year Fangio won his second world championship, so never actually see him race, but his achievements speak for themselves.
I was 6 years old when I saw Fangio the first time. I am now 77 and he remains my hero.
you SAW Fangio?...
tell us the story!
I met Fangio in 1992. He went to the school where I studied and I was able to see him up close and listen to him. His presence emanated a kind of special aura, which we could all feel. Then I have read about F1 drivers who have felt this same aura in him. Amazing!
Great little film capturing the grandeur of 1950s F1. And so nice to hear the wonderful voice of Raymond Baxter, a former Spitfire pilot of WWII.
M6973 .................thanks for the info on Baxter !!!!
tell us more about raymond baxter Marv!
@@geniusmcwhatnot9869 He hosted 'tommorows world' on bbc for a long while, such an intelligent and articulate guy.
IMHO the greatest of all time. That reputation spanned decades. When I was a teenager learning to drive in 1979, my father would say "Oy! Fangio! Slow down!"
None of his traits that made him the unquestionable undeniable GOAT were greater than his humility and his complete lack of arrogance
His kind at best come along once every century
True only Jim Clark came along the next decade so they were pretty spoiled for such people back then. But we’ve had none since
*THE GOAT! what has the GOAT to do with this?*
I grew up a big Jim Clark fan, but I have to admit Fangio was probably the greatest driver of all time. To drive 8 years in Formula one in that era of fragile cars and no seatbelts was a remarkable feat.
It isn’t the number of World Championships that make Fangio the greatest, it is the way that he achieved it. Always a gentleman driver in his races, he drove very fair. Fangio always had the ability to drive for the team that he thought would give him the best chance of victory. Not only did Fangio drive in formula 1, he also drove just as well in saloon car and sports car races often on the same day, unlike more recent drivers. Fangio never had any radio communication with the pits, his only communication with his team was a sign hung out on a board. It was up to Fangio to deal with any mechanical problems with the car which he did very well. It is all these various issues that make him the best. Fortunately I was there to see him achieve many of his victories.
13:28 - 16:17 In a primitive, skinny-tired car on a bumpy, dirt-covered track, Fangio extracts every possible mph, clipping each apex within millimeters and drifting on exit to each corner's maximum width. From inside we see Fangio battle the car, using multiple steering corrections and braking hard at the last possible moment. But shots from outside the car show it to be circulating the track with uncanny smoothness and fluidity. His mastery deserves to be acknowledged even to this day.
They are far from primitive, in fact they reach the same top speed as modern f1 are lighter and handle better on circuit with lot's of straight. In term of speed and tech compare them with supercar car from the late 90s-early 2000 minus the cornering capability. ( 4.5s to 100kmh is nothing to laught about )
I was born a few generations too late. Juan Manuel Fangio, in my mind, was the greatest to ever drive a racing car. Before him, with him, after him… none have been better. 👏🏼
Not even close!
@F1 Navy That’s an interesting way of stating that your opinion on the question matters no more than mine. 😉
With perhaps Jim Clark being the only ‘rival’ that might come close to Fangio in terms of having a supernatural feel & control of the car, even Clark himself bawked at comparisons. Yes, ‘the greatest of all time’ is a subjective metric. So much goes into success in racing. Driver, team, equipment, sponsors, etc. All of that is true. Yet I’ve heard more World Drivers Champions point to Juan Manuel Fangio as the metric.
However, it was Fangio, himself who said that Jim Clark was the very best of all - and that in the time of Senna, Prost etc. Maybe that also exemplifies his humility
@@morganrees6807 It’s that unassuming humility that’s almost as impressive to me as the skill as a racer. How a guy can maintain that with all the fame & adulation imaginable seems impossible. Yet a number of champions somehow did. Fangio, Clark, Prost… they surely had their ego, yet they could keep it in check. All the more to admire about them I think.
@@OldStreetDoc Prost? LMAO
No fire suits, no safety barriers, those were truly men with nerves of steele.
besides his awesome talent-i think he was a very classy guy. Thanks for resurrecting this footage. I really enjoyed it!
Superb video! Truly excellent.
This is what you Call "A1 Talented Driver" with Feel, Pace & the Precision to maKe it ALL lOOk Easy.
No matter what modern racing drivers are destined to achieve in the future - whether they would win 7, 8 or even 10 titles during their careers. This man is an ULTIMATE LEGEND - irreplaceable, inoutscoreable, untouchable! Keep in mind that the cars of the 50s were literally coffins on wheels - non-existant safety features or regulations, stone-age kind of helmet designs, goggles, no seatbelts, no safety cages around the chassis - you had to have serious balls and tons of bravery to push pedal to the metal in primitive circuits when tragedy was never too far away and anyone could have become the next victim for their passion for racing. Those guys, in comparison to the current, technologically advanced fellow drivers today, were literally GLADIATORS in the industry!
Long tale.
I'm a Somm and back in the early 2000's I was the "wine host" for a high end private dinner for the Ford Blue Oval racing team (A dealer org.) in Indianapolis on a Friday night before F1. As a brief presenter I was seated at the guest speaker's table. Seated with me were a couple of Ford execs, a little Irish Leprechaun and his stunningly lovely, and great fun Amazonian wife.
One of the greatest divers of all time and a gentle little man, Phil Hill and Alma his wife were just a treat. I pestered him with questions at every opportunity and he had some great tales and answers. I was introduced to Michael S. and J.P. Montoya, at the same dinner. Michael Schumacher, Juan and Phil all in the same room, I'm very lucky.
I saw all the Indy F1 races of that era in person, those 19,000 rpm V10s...
A couple years later at the Historic races at Leguna Seca, (Maserati year I think) I watched him run his 1963 Aston, he left a wee bit of green paint on the track that day. I spoke with him that weekend, finding him under a car in half peeled Nomex. He instantly remembered me and we spoke for a short time while he wrenched. A true Prince among men.
When asked, "Okay, who's the real best"?
Zero hesitation: Fangio! Then he told me some funny tales of Fangio terrorizing unsuspecting Italian villages while out "testing" Ferrari mules on the ummmm... test track.
Marvelous tale. Those romanticized days of racing where there wasn't much separating a public road and a race circuit.
It made me cry... What a guy. No doubt, the best driver of all times. Beautiful video, awsome!!!!
Wow, just wow... what a racer!
The greatest!
greetings from Argentina
Just watched this and started looking for the book I remember reading in grade school about Moss’s Mille Miglia win with Denis Jenkinson as his navigator and the rolling assembly that fed them information on the impossible course they ran.
There will never be another like him. The greatest by far. 👏👏👏👏👏
Great! and raymond baxter...legend
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Gracias desde Argentina saludos 🤗
Dentro y fuera? Que me importa lo que hizo fuera del automovilismo? Si le hubiera pegaba a la mujer, hubiera sido nazi o matara perros por placer, seria menos genial en la formula 1? Fangio es, fue y sera el mejor por lo que hizo en las pistas. Era corredor de automovilismo, mecanico, estratega, excelente, y es todo lo que importa.
Estupendo Roberto 👏👍 coincido con tigo y con el se rompió el molde . No va haber otro igual
@@robertorobertes7630
i think the hitting women nazi dog thing is a little off there robby rob but i get your point!...LOL
@@geniusmcwhatnot9869 fue una exageracion, para apoyar mi idea. Saludos.
The Greatest
It's a shame we don't have a series as mechanically pure as those early cars, where it was man and machine together competing. Although I enjoy modern racing it does seem rather sterile compared to the simpler times.
Fangio was my first racing hero.
13:30 Those lines! Perfection!
Excelente , felicitaciones , no hay palabras para expresar la alegria que ha dado y seguirá dando , haciendo correctas comparaciones , nunca habrá otro igual .
Sería bueno que tuviera traducción , solo porque el es argentino de habla castellano . Mucha Salud .
FANGIO raced 10 years in F1, time during which 30 drivers died on the tracks.
He was a great racer and old for a modern driver
EL MAS GRANDE DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS .
LEJOS EL MEJOR LO QUE EL HIZO EN LA F1 AL DIA DE HOY NO FUE SUPERADO
His years with Mercedes-Benz were the best. Daimler Benz basically has unlimited budget and resources. Streamlined long tail coupes for Monza and Rheims were the best…
The best EVER.
the greatest ever
WOW! Skinny tires and really rough tracks. Mass cojones!!
Can you imagine today's drivers in those cars, with those skinny tires, crash box transmissions, no safety equipment, on the crappy tracks they drove on, at the speeds they raced?
Fenomenal!!!
Still the greatest.
I became interested in F1 racing when I was 7, in 1952 when I first heard about Fangio, Ascari, and Farina. It was Fangio that was my favorite, even though I really didn't know why. He was my "guy" until I discovered Stirking Moss, then it waa Fangio and Moss until Fangio retired. I still think he is top 2 or 3 best ever given 5 WDCs in his 40s, driving the dangerous cars of the day and on tracks with little in the way of safety. 150+ mph on skinny bias ply tires, no seat belts, questionable helmets, short sleeve polo shirts...those were men, and Fangio was THE man.
What are your thoughts on Clark, Schumi, and Hamilton? Really curious to hear the perspective of someone who's been watching for so long. Do you have a favorite rivalry (Senna/Prost, Hamilton/Rosberg etc)?
@@kerb23 I considered Jimmy Clark to be the best driver in his era (1960-1968), and one of the very best ever.. Of course, he had one of the best cars of the period as well, but he drove sportscars, rally, saloon, and Indycars, all at an exceptional.level. It's a little harder to judge Schumacher and Hamilton, I think. both of whom were/are arguably the best of their eras as well, but harder to assess their skills, as they primarily drove F1 cars exclusively. I give a slight edge to Svhumacher. as I think he was instrumental in the development of Ferrari's F1 successes, There is, imo, little doubt Hamilton is the best driver of the current period. We are, of course, leaving out Lauda, Senna, and Prost from the discussion, all of whom were exceptional talents. It's all just my personal observations and opinions, of course. Seeing the evolution of F1 cars over the last 60+ years has been incredible. As for rivalries, I think Senna/ Prost would be my #1.
@@tomsmith5216 Thanks man! So cool to hear this type of perspective. I only started watching in 2020 but I've been fascinated by the more historic aspects of F1 for a while
And out of curiosity, would you say Vettel and Alonso are on a similar level to Lauda, Prost, and Senna?
@@kerb23 Good question... They would have to be close to that level. Their accimplishments certainly would indicate it. I hadn't thought about that until you mentioned it. 🙂🤔
He is the best driver ever.In the 1957 German GP he used one gear ahead of all the other drivers.Fourth gear instead of third and fifth instead of fourth and not using the brakes.Unbelievable
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08:00 The Pan American Road Race of NINETEEN HUNDRED MILES??? What manner of men are these? G*I*A*N*T*S
at 21:30...german grand prix 1957...
his greatest race...
loses near a minute in a pitstop
then breaks the lap record ten times in the next 22 laps
to win the race...wow.
Grande Fangio!!
“Still he drove with that implacable will to win so typical of the man”
Fangio's actual life was like some fictional hero from a Boys Own Annual story, Champions could never come better than him and they never will
The greatest ever!
"un hombre se destaca fresco y tranquilo en un mundo de fracción de segundo donde el tiempo se mide en tiendas de campaña "
🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁 .amen
And to think he was in his 40s
Those were the days...
Is there a better bit of footage than that of Fangio arriving at the pits in a Mercedes to do a few laps in the Maserati I ask you?
Yes! The three minutes of brilliant driving that follow!
@@johntechwriter you got it
The driving skills you must have had in those days meant you had to be made of the same "right stuff" as astronauts. Most current F1 drivers would be rather mediocre in such cars, if not scared stiff.
G O A T
The Technique of Motor Racing. Juan Manuel Fangio.. read it.
8:53 The Reems circuit 😃😀
Fangio, el mejor lejos. Muy lejos.
Hamilton may be the most successful F1 driver, but Fangio will always be the greatest Racing Driver. I was born the year Fangio won his second world championship, so never actually see him race, but his achievements speak for themselves.
👍👍
A POR CIERTO MURIO DE VIEJO NO EN UN AUTO ESO TAMBIEN LO. HACE EL.MEJOR .
Am I the only one that finds Raymond Baxter's exaggerated clipped tones highly irritating?
Quien pago por esta pelicula? El pueblo argentino?
In A T shirt
Why time stamp and it’s not even your Photograper . Unwatchable
The one paint ganguly fit because request immunohistologically expect amid a cheerful force. daffy, secretive stopwatch
Please, just go away. You're pathetic
Anybody see a resemblance to Putin
NO!
NOOO.!
Nope
Fangio was average at best.
Yeah, five world championships any average guy can accomplish that.
@@youtuber5709 In their 40's no less & for different brands
Average f1 driver with 5 championships? You are below average in terms of F1 knowledge
Read his life : it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Fangio