Richard, what's the best second in motorsport history, would you say?

What about Sterling Moss's second in the World Championship in 1958, perhaps?

Or maybe, Jill Villeneuve's second at Dijon in 1979, wheelbanging with René Arnaud.

Well, this is going to be a bit controversial, maybe even heretical.

But I'd say Fangio's second place in the 1955 Milamilia,

the legendary race in which his Mercedes teammate, Sterling Moss,

won his most famous victory.

But he had the assistance of Dennis Jenkinson as his navigator,

very famously, to give him warning of hazards. Fangeau was driving the same sort of a Mercedes

all by himself, and he drove the last 300 miles on seven of the car's eight cylinders

after a fuel injection pipe fractured somewhere between Florence and Sienna.

That's my favourite second place.

That's a very brave, slightly arcane and very typical of you choice, I would say.

But now it's time for us to try to record a memorable second of our own

because we're back with a second series of our podcast, and colossally,

that's history.

I'm Richard Williams.

And I'm Matt Bishop.

And over 10 more episodes, we're going to reappraise several more chapters in motor racing

history, from Nicky Louders' famous

Monza comeback to how Bernie Eccleston kept a stranglehold on F1 for several decades.

But we're starting season two with a bang with a critical re-examination of the remarkable

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