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🇦🇷 Juan Fangio

Racing driver from Argentina. Formula 1, Maserati. Five-time champion.
Driver facts
Full name
Juan Fangio
Born
24 June 1911(b. 1911)
Nationality
Argentina
Current team
Maserati
Series
Formula 1
Status
Retired
Championships
51951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957
Career wins
24
Career podiums
35
Career starts
51
Career DNFs
10
Racer Rating
6,889
Juan Fangio
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
6,889
Rank 22 of 40,105 indexed, -989 this season
FIA Categorisation
Not on file
Not yet indexed
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Juan Fangio is a racing driver from Argentina who last raced in Formula 1 for Maserati. Fangio is a five-time champion (1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957), with 24 wins and 35 podiums from 51 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 6,889 ranks Fangio 22th of 40,105 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
1958 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFBELNEDGBRITAARGMONBELFRAGBRGERITAARGMONFRAGBRGERITAITAARGFRA
Recent results
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1958-07-06Reims-GueuxFormula 1P4+6
1958-01-19Autódromo Juan y Oscar GálvezFormula 1P4−43
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+152Circuit de Monaco 1950Formula 1P1
+147Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 1950Formula 1P1
+137Reims-Gueux 1950Formula 1P1
+129Circuit Bremgarten 1951Formula 1P1
+126Reims-Gueux 1951Formula 1P1
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Reims-Gueux6 starts+24
Nürburgring5 starts+20
Silverstone5 starts+7
Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez6 starts+1
Struggles
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps6 starts-22
Circuit de Monaco4 starts-5
Autodromo Nazionale di Monza7 starts-3
Circuit Bremgarten4 starts-1
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
1958▸Formula 1Maserati200017P10−377,878
1957▸Formula 1Maserati7461446P1+1287,915
1956▸Formula 1Ferrari7351333P1+1227,787
1955▸Formula 1Mercedes6451341P1+1647,665
1954▸Formula 1Mercedes8670557P1+5857,501
1953▸Formula 1Maserati8143130P3+2066,916
1951▸Formula 1Alfa Romeo7351337P1+4626,710
1950▸Formula 1Alfa Romeo6333326P3+4,8976,247
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Fangio finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇺🇸 Harry Schell6,0873731684%
🇫🇷 Maurice Trintignant5,9613732586%
🇫🇷 Jean Behra5,9683530586%
🇫🇷 Louis Rosier5,9603426876%
🇬🇧 Mike Hawthorn6,50433231070%
🇬🇧 Stirling Moss6,33032211166%
🇮🇹 Luigi Villoresi6,0193124777%
🇮🇹 Nino Farina6,4952718967%
🇮🇹 Alberto Ascari6,25225151060%
🇦🇷 José Froilán González6,2862419579%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 40,105 drivers indexed
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Juan Fangio was an Argentine Formula 1 driver who raced from 1950 to 1958, competing as a professional in a field spanning amateurs to graded professionals. He drove primarily for Maserati across his career in single-seater championship racing.[1]

Fangio won five Formula 1 World Drivers' Championships: 1951 with Alfa Romeo, 1954 and 1955 with Mercedes, 1956 with Ferrari, and 1957 with Maserati. He recorded 24 wins and 35 podiums from 51 starts across eight seasons. His final indexed season came in 1958, when he competed in two rounds and finished tenth in the championship standings.[2]

Fangio regularly finished ahead of established professionals such as Harry Schell and Maurice Trintignant, opponents he faced throughout his career. He beat the 1958 Formula 1 champion Mike Hawthorn on 14 occasions and defeated Nino Farina, the 1950 Formula 1 champion, 11 times in head-to-head competition.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
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