Miata Mailing List: November 1995, Message #42
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   From: "Robert C. Holland" 
Subject: RE: thoughts on threads
   Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 14:42:48 -0500


On Wed, 01 Nov 1995 13:25:22 -0500  Paul Weissman JPL (818)354-2636 wrote:
>a minor added note on Jack M.'s Fangio story...   i read a similar story
>once but i think someone else was driving.  in any case, after shunting the
>car and with Fangio lying unconscious in the ditch, the driver of the other
>vehicle looked at Fangio's driver and said, "Who the hell do you think you
>are?  Juan Manuel Fangio?"  to which the first driver replied, pointing at
>his unconscious companion in the ditch, "No, but he is."  my guess is this
>was one of Rob Walker's articles in Road & Track, and Rob may have been the
>driver.

I believe it was Fangio that was driving, but Rob was amazed at his driving
skill in not plowing into the side of the truck blocking the road while
going over 100 mph. Seems Fangio manuvered the car in such a way as to
minimize the crash so that everyone could walk away. F1 could use a few
more Fangio's.

Robert

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Robert Holland (JTBob)
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
robert@caliban.ucsd.edu
http://mmdshare.ucsd.edu
Red '92A ("N2 TULL")
Team Voodoo
San Diego, CA

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