Juan Manuel Fangio
Argentine racing driver (1911–1995)
- Fame60.6
- Momentum0.0
- Argentina rank#117
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Updated 2026-06-21
He won nearly half his races—24 of 52—and took five world titles with four different teams in F1's first decade, then retired and kept the championship record for 46 years. The percentages alone tell you why they called him "el Maestro".
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Fangio left school early for auto mechanics and began racing Ford V8s in Argentina's Turismo Carretera in 1938, winning back-to-back national titles in 1940 and 1941. After competing in Europe through the late 1940s, he entered Formula One's inaugural season in 1950 and dominated the decade that followed, claiming championships with Alfa Romeo in 1951, Mercedes-Benz in 1954 and 1955, Ferrari in 1956, and Maserati in 1954 and 1957—the only driver in history to win with four constructors. At 44, he drove the entire 1955 Argentine Grand Prix alone in searing heat while rivals rotated younger co-d…
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