Carlos competed in 34 race for Scuderia Ferrari, winning five, which makes him the most successful
Argentine driver for the Maranello marque. Juan Manuel Fangio only managed three wins, while Jose Froilan
Gonzalez won twice, memorably securing the Scuderia’s first ever Formula 1 victory on 14 July 1951 in the
British Grand Prix.
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Over the years, Reutemann often returned to Maranello, in 1991 and four years later when he tried out the
cockpit of Jean Alesi’s 412 T1. In December 2004, he drove a Ferrari Formula 1 car again, when he
completed around 20 laps of Fiorano in Rubens Barrichello’s F2004.
Memories
Enzo Ferrari held Reutemann, who went on to a brilliant political career in his native Argentina, in high
regard. But in his book “Piloti, che gente…”, Ferrari did not hold back: “An athletic highly skilled driver, with
a tormented and torturous temperament. Able to resolve difficult situations and to make up for mechanical
shortcomings, but sometimes his emotions got the better of him and lost him the result that seemed
possible at the start.” Carlos Reutemann raced in Formula 1 from 1972 to 1982, with four major players,
Brabham, Ferrari, Williams and Lotus, competing in 146 Grands Prix. He won 12 and finished second in the
World Championship in 1981, and third three times in 1975, 1978 and 1980.
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