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
