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Juan Manuel Fangio’s corpse is exhumed in Argentina

The body of five-time Formula 1 World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio has been exhumed today in order to test his DNA and determine his paternity over two men. Minutes after 11:00am local time in Argentina, the process started to exhume the body of the F1 legend at the cemetery of Balcarce, Fangio’s hometown. The procedure had been ordered by a judge in Mar del Plata, a city nearby Balcarce, located in Buenos Aires province, for a lawsuit started in 2013 by Oscar Espinoza, 77. He wants to demonstrate that Fangio was his father. The genetic samples, which were taken in the cemetery’s morgue, will also help to determinate if Fangio was the father of Ruben Vazquez, 73, who started a...
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