Moreover, Fangio would win half of the races of that 1950, three (in reality there were 7, because Indianapolis was considered where none of the “Europeans” attended), despite which he would not come out champion, an honor that left the Italian Giuseppe Farina, The winner in addition to the first F-1 GP in Silverstone, where El Chueco left.
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Fangio, among the Mónaco cords 1951.
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The Argentine would abandon in Switzerland and Monza, while winning in Spa Francorchamps and Reims. And I would start winning 1951, The year of his first title, in Bern and in the novena in his history in the GP of France again in Reims, while it would be 9th in the medium in Spa.
That is to say, Fangio won in 5 of his first nine races of Formula 1, without participating in the middle in two editions of Indianapolis. For something he was the best Argentine and perhaps the best in history.
Froilán followed the steps to the chueco
José Froilán González was the second Argentine in the F-1, but did not start like El Chueco. It is that their first three races were abandoned, in Monaco and France of 1950, and Switzerland of 51, the last two with Taltot and the first with Maserati. It was with this last mark when he tried but could not qualify for Spa and from Reims would make the quality leap when he went to Ferrari.
In his 5th race in F-1 he went to Ferrari and there would come five consecutive podiums: It would be second in France and the next race, in Silverstone, would give the first triumph to Cavallino in Silverstone. Third position in Nurburgring, and second in Monza and Spain.
In Pedralbes it would be, after England’s career but with the inverted pilots, the second Argentine 1-2 in Formula 1. Three times the chueco would first leave and the González Cabezón 2nd: Germany and Switzerland 54 and Argentina 55.
The year 1951 would also end the albiceleste on the championship podium: Fangio Champion, Froilán 3rd. Something that would be repeated in 1954 with the 1-2 of the chueco and the reef.
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Froilán and Ferrari’s first triumph, in Silverstone 51.
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Onofre, the only Argentine victim in Formula 1
Onofre Marimón was the great Argentine promise that arrived after the successes of Fangio and González. Although it would cost you more adaptation. He had his first attempt at the France 91 GP, where he qualified 15 of 23 pilots but left in the second round for the engine of his Maserati.
His next attempt would be given two years later and became the best result. Nothing less than third place, first podium, in Belgium 1953. He had classified 6 and ended on a return.
But then a 9th place would arrive in Reims and six abandoned in a row with the Maserati: Silverstone, Nurburgring, Switzerland, Monza 53 and Argentina and Belgium 54 to complete their first nine major awards.
Then another abandonment would arrive in Reims, a second podium with the 3rd place in Britain (that day would win José Froilán González for the second and last time), and the death he waited for him during the nurburgring essays of that 1954. He was not only the only victim of an Argentine but the first in Formula 1.
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The first death in Formula 1, Onofre.
Two professionals in one
Carlos Menditéguy was a professional golfer and also Formula 1 pilot. He was in 12 GP, in two he did not leave (Argentina 54, after classifying 9th, by the engine, and in Germany 57) and in three of them added, two in Argentina, in 1957 where he made his only podium with third place and in 1960 where he was 4th.
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While He added in his third grand prize, In Italy, with the 5th place. 7th also arrived in Argentina 1958.
In the other six races he left: Argentina 53, 55 and 56, Monaco, France and Great Britain 57.
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Menditeguy’s Maserati, whom Fangio said he was not world champion because he did not want to.
A good step of little time
Roberto Mieres was another of that first Argentine Navy of the first decade of Formula 1, which would then disappear almost completely in the 60s.
They would be 5 retreats (Holland and France 1953; Argentina, Belgium and France 54) in the first 6 racesadding in the third, with the 6th place in Monza.
In The seventh added again, with the sixth place in the GP of Great Britain, which would mark a milestone for Argentina in Formula 1: Four pilots added of the 6: 1st Froilán, Marimon 3, Fangio 4th and Mieres 6th.
-In the other three that would complete its first 9 GP, abandoned in two (Germany and Italy 54), and it was 4th in Switzerland 54. In the 10th it was again 4 in Spain 54.
There would be 6 more races in 1955, With two abandonments and three punctual positions, which would result in a good brooch for its passage through Formula 1.
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From Mar del Plata to Formula 1.
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Lole, who started to last a decade
Carlos Alberto Reutemann began his great step in Formula 1 with a pole position in the Argentina 72 and a 7th final position. And from that shocking his debut, he would only get points in the ninth competition.
Lole would later run in South Africa (abandoned), Belgium (13th), France (12th), Great Britain (8th), Germany (abandoned), Austria (abandoned), Italy (abandoned) And fourth place in Canada in the ninth race in F-1, its first points, to leave in the next race at Watkins Glen, United States.
There were 10 races in that first season of 1972, which was interrupted after the second race in Kyalami for a Truxton accident in Formula 2, since Reutemann in that first year, like other pilots, competed in the two main categories of the world.
From there, Reutemann would be in ten complete seasons in the maximum category, With 146 presentations. No Argentine ran so much in the F-1.
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In the starting line from the pole. Lole’s debut.
The San Juan who remote it as far as he could
Ricardo Zunino was the other Argentine who spent the nine races in Formula 1. But he reached the tenth and was fired in the Argentina’s GP of 1981, with a Tyrrell that had already begun his decline but that he would still arrive with less in the 13th place.
Ran in the shadow of Reutemann, From that incredible debut in the Canada GP of 79, when he got on the Brabham who had just left Niki Lauda. The Austrian simply got off the car in the middle of the first trial to abandon the F-1 for the first time and the Colorado did not hesitate to get on.
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It was 7 in the debut, today I would have added 6 points, 4 laps from the winner, The Australian Alan Jones, while abandoned at Watkins Glen.
Zunino was confirmed as a starter in Brabham for the beginning of 1980, Finishing in a large 7th place in Argentina, 2 laps from Jones. It was 8th in Brazil, 10 in South Africa, abandoned in Long Beach and Belgium, did not qualify in Monaco, and abandoned in Paul Ricard before being replaced in the rest of the year by Héctor Rebaque.
His 9th race would be with Tyrrell in the GP of Brazil, ending 13th the day of the great triumph of Reutemann in the rain in Jacarepaguá. It was his penultimate time and never added, but with today’s score he would have added in four competitions.
One of lime and one of sand
After Reutemann, and the steps of Miguel Angel Guerra (one career), Poppy Larrauri (tried to run 21 GP, but started only 8) and Norberto Fontana (4 GP), Esteban Tuero was the Argentine who managed to pass this barrier who is about to transfer Colapinto.
Caballito’s played a total of 16 GP in Minardi in 1998 before retiring by previous decision. And in those first 9 GP, little came. With three abandonments (Australia, Brazil and Argentina), in San Marino he arrived for the first time and in the eighth place, so he would have added today.
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He arrived again in Spain, in 15th place, and four abandonments in Monaco, others in Canada, France and Great Britain. 4 more defections would come until again he saw the checkered flag only in Monza (11th), arrived in Luxembourg but did not classify and He ended with Tora Takagi’s top in Japan.
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Esteban Tuero, in the Pit Lane in Australia 98.
Who was dedicated to arriving
Gastón Mazzacane was the last Argentine to have competed in 9 races (He would do 21 in total) and in his second races, after abandonment in Australia, he arrived in the 10 place, which today would have meant a point.
The Platense was more arrival than Tuero, Also with MINARDI: 13th in San Marino, 15th in Britain, 15th in Spain, 8th in Nurburgring, he crashed in Monaco, was 12th in Canada and left France in his first nine participations.
He never added in 2000 or 2001 in Prost, where he only ran 4 runs until he was fired in Icola. Yes, the same place where Franco Colapinto will return.
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Gastón’s last. Where? In Icola.
