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The day Fangio went missing in Havana!

The great Juan Manuel Fangio certainly enjoyed a storied motorsport career but the episode that took place on this day in 1958 was unlike anything the F1 legend had ever experienced. For the second year running, Havana hosted on its streets the Cuban Grand Prix, a sportscar event won by Fangio the year before. Established to vaunt the merits and image of the country's president, Fulgencio Batista (seen here above with Fangio), the race served as the perfect backdrop for Castro's revolutionaries to embarrass the latter. And there was no better way to proceed, in their view, than by taking captive the very man everyone had come to watch: Fangio! The Argentinean was nonchalantly strolling...
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