{"id":460827,"date":"2006-06-01T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=72977"},"modified":"2024-01-08T14:18:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:18:31","slug":"moss-on-fangio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/moss-on-fangio\/","title":{"rendered":"Moss on Fangio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Juan Manuel Fangio was special. Not only as a racing driver but also as a human being. He was the kindest, most gentle and humble person I have ever met, yet he had the talent and grit to win the Formula One World Championship no fewer than five times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After spending my youth avidly following the fabulous motor racing careers of Fangio and Stirling Moss, I first met the Argentinean 10 years after his retirement, in 1968 when, through my Pirelli colleagues in Milan, I set up an interview with him for ex-Lotus Grand Prix-winner Innes Ireland, who had just been appointed sports editor of the British motoring magazine Autocar. 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