LETTERS
The editorial of the March issue [The Editor] mentions the 1958 Cuban Grand Prix, when Fangio was kidnapped, and the terrible crash in the race. I was watching from an eighth-floor precisely over the spot of the accident. Cuban Armando Garcia Cifuentes was very close to the kerb on the left side and starting to overtake an Argentinian Porsche when this car had a small wiggle of the back – enough to hit the right front wheel of the Testa Rossa throwing it through a five- or six-deep row of spectators and continuing across a park towards the other side of the track where the leaders were already approaching. A parked crane stopped the Ferrari, seriously injuring the driver.
Venezuelan Piero Drogo stopped his Ferrari 250 TR, loading an injured person on the bonnet and with someone on the passenger seat holding the victim Drogo drove at high speed towards the hospital.
Were it not for the crane the carnage would have been much, much worse.
JOSE LOPEZ, ARGENTINA
A smile from Juan Manuel Fangio in Havana in 1958 shortly after being released by kidnappers
Thank you for the latest issue of Motor Sport, read from cover to cover, as usual, within days.
I have been anticipating the latest version of the WEC for quite a while now and am really looking forward to the titanic battles that will surely happen over the next few seasons, so that section [Believe the hype, February] was read with great interest.
But I’ll only be able to follow them via a live feed or pay TV.
For many years my sons and I spent a great weekend at Silverstone enjoying the ELMS on Saturday and the WEC on the Sunday but, apparently, our (and thousands of other fans’) enthusiasm for the event has been insufficient for Silverstone and/or the FIA/ACO to bring endurance racing back to the UK.