Schumacher remembers Juan Manuel Fangio
di alessandra25 June, 2011
Friday, Michael schumacher paid homage Juan Manuel Fangio, the Argentine legend who won five world championships, then surpassed by the German with seven world championships won.
This Friday marked the centenary of Fangio's birth. Speaking in Valencia, Schumacher recalled when he met the Argentine in the early 90s, a few years before he died, at a DTM race.
“I was struck by how he still looked so young, even though he was in his eighties,” the German Mercedes GP driver commented to the motorsport-magazin.com website.
“From his physical coordination and the liveliness and alertness of his gaze, you could understand that he had truly been a great pilot.”
Fangio died at age 84 in 1995.
Alessandra Leoni
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