Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the WTF1 that time when podcast.

As you can probably tell I am not met Matt on holiday so you've got me Jess filling in as host

today and I'm joined by our resident F1 encyclopedias and fountains of all weird F1 knowledge,

Tommy and Dan. Hello guys. Hello. How are we? We're good. We're ready to talk about some obscure F1

stuff with you. Absolutely. So as you'll know if you've been keeping up with our that time when

series this podcast is where we talk about some strange moments and stories in F1 history.

Although this week we are sort of cheating as it's technically a story about sports car race

but it is a story about an F1 legend so it counts. It counts. So today we're going to be talking about

that time when Juan Manuel Fangio was kidnapped before a race. Yeah. So let's I mean I don't even know

where to start with a story like that. Should we should we kind of do a little intro into who

who Fangio was because I'm sure listeners will know his name. Yeah but maybe not know quite how

incredible he was. So I think it's important for any sort of new fans to know that Fangio was

definitely the Lewis Hamilton of his day should I say. Of the first day is really. Yeah he was the

original you know he was the mega star of motorsport really. He completely dominated the 50s. He won

five world titles which obviously wasn't matched until Michael Schumacher did it in 2002. So

held for a very very long time. Yeah and Fangio who was nicknamed El Maestro he had he still has the

best win percentage in F1 history which I've got here is 46.15%. Yeah. So he nearly one half the races

he competed in which is pretty incredible even for the little amount he did at the time. You can

pair that to say Schumacher. His is around 30% and Hamilton's is 30 like just over 32% I think.

But I worked out that for Hamilton to match Fangio's win ratio he'd have to win the next 67 races in a row.

Oh wow. That was a good perspective. That was a good perspective. How good Fangio was in time.

Yeah. I mean do we have any idea how many how many races are we talking about back then?

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