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Juan Manuel Fangio’s body to be exhumed, rules Argentinian judge

The body of five-time Formula 1 World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio will be exhumed next month, following the orders of a judge in Argentina for a paternity test. Fangio, who won the F1 world title in 1951 and then every year from 1954-57 despite a near-fatal crash at Monza in ‘52, is the subject of a lawsuit opened by a man who claims to be his son. His body will be exhumed on August 7th to analyze his DNA. The news comes just days before the 20th anniversary of Fangio’s death, which happened on July 17th 1995 when he was aged 84. His body will be removed from the local cemetery of Balcarce, the town where Fangio was born, and will be taken to the nearby city of Mar del Plata, in Buenos...
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