[atr_hugo]

Maserati is celebrating Juan Manuel Fangio's championship year of 1957. Neat little web presentation here.

[Brookside]

Great. I wonder how he'd stack up today in F1?
This is my guy- of course never saw him race - but what a great name.
Tazio Nuvolari...drove for everyone incl. Alfa and Auto Union.

[atr_hugo]

Nuvolari, Rosemeyer, and Caracciola on the European side and the Americans, Murphy, Lockhart and Milton my pre-WW II favorites. Fangio, Moss, Vuckovich, Clark - my post-war, pre-slick favorites - and the heros are too numerous to mention since the introduction of slicks and aerodynamics.

I think you have to break drivers down by eras - I'm not sure comparison is appropriate. There was racing up to the GP Peugeot of 1912 which ushered in a new era. Racing until the introduction of the Auto-Union, Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows - then the gap of WW-II, the immediate post-war period until the introduction of slick tires, then the period on slicks before the revolutionary Loti.

I once tired to find a way of saying that I could not describe what made Nuvolari great (though I know Count Lurani tried in his biography of Nuvolari). Without having witnessed them drive often, it would be like a critic trying to describe a painting without having seen it.

[atr_hugo]

Nuvolari in a Bugatti - from this web site.