Word: maseratis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the last lap, less than 25 miles from the finish, he was running third. He could not have known, but the Ferrari team had the race won. His grizzled teammate, Piero Taruffi, 50, had already finished in first place. Far back, Britain's Stirling Moss, driving a Maserati, the Ferrari's only strong competitor, had lost his brakes and almost crashed in a roadside cemetery. The other Maserati competitors had also either folded or faded...
Since 1950, when they began playing host to the country's biggest sports-car race, Sebring's citizens have learned to make sense of the foreign names and the continental accents that color the annual invasion of their sleepy town. They have learned to tell a Maserati from a Ferrari; they know a Mercedes-Benz when they see one. But Goldich's death was Sebring's first Grand Prix fatality. Now, at last, the spectators knew the danger and fear that ride with the high-speed racers...
More than Speed. On the track the other drivers settled stoically to their work. Steadily, the high, whining scream of a big (4.5 liters) bright red Maserati moved out in front of the pack. Handled by World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio and France's Jean Behra, a pair of extraordinarily delicate car conservers, the 400-h.p. Maserati was in fact taking it easy. No one knew better than Fangio and Behra that speed alone is not enough on Sebring's demanding course; the trick is to keep a car going all the way to the finish...
Only an Accident. For a long while, a 3.8-liter D-Jaguar clung close to the leading Maserati. Then its new-type disk brakes began to give trouble, and it began to drop back. Maserati's most consistent racing competitor, a 3.4-liter Ferrari, had also slowed down to nurse its brakes. The race was only nine hours old, but already only an accident could lose for Fangio. His excitable pit crew managed to get one of his teammates' cars disqualified by refueling it too often; later they doused his cockpit in gasoline. But he and Behra kept...
...better or worse now than I was then," insisted the happy champion. "But the car I drove today was fantastic. As TIME said last month, this is indeed the Year of the Maserati...