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Originally posted by jluetjen
Fangio: Could sit in almost anything and be faster then the other guys. Great mechanical sympathy, so he would finish races when others wouldn't in an age of unreliable and unsafe cars. Really the first "Professional" as opposed to be a fast "gentlemen" racer.
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The glaring omission, here, IMO, is that Fangio made his
first Grand Prix start in his late thirties, an age older than Schumacher will be at retirement from the sport.
I don't think that JMF's start/win percentage will ever be bettered.
Tim