Juan Manuel Fangio's Body To Be Dug Up For Paternity Suit
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[b]Report: Body of Juan Manuel Fangio to be exhumed for DNA test[/b]
Source: [url=http://motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com/2015/07/12/report-body-of-juan-manuel-fangio-to-be-exhumed-for-dna-test/]NBC Sports[/url] via [url=http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/juan-manuel-fangios-body-to-be-dug-up-for-paternity-sui-1717553081]Jalopnik[/url]
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Juan Manuel Fangio, widely considered to be one of the greatest Formula One drivers of all time, died damn near 20 years ago at the ripe old age of 84. He never married, and didn’t have any children – supposedly. Now a man going by the name of “Oscar Espinosa Fangio” is claiming Juan is his father, and his body is being dug up to prove it.
It’s pretty much impossible to overstate the degree to which Juan Manuel Fangio’s body heralded success in F1. With his body, he won the World Driver’s Championship five times with four different teams, and still holds the highest winning percentage of any driver. And when he was in his heyday, his body was already old as hell compared to most other F1 drivers, first becoming championship when it was already 40.
But now that body is being exhumed in a paternity suit brought by Espinosa, which claims that Espinosa’s mother had a dalliance with Fangio’s body (when it was alive, jeez) way back in the 1930s. The result, maybe, was little Oscar, according to Diario La Vanguardia via NBC Sports:
[quote]Beba [Espinosa’s mother] had first come into Juan’s life when she was living in Balcarce with her husband, a potato grower, from whom she divorced soon after meeting Juan.
Shortly after this, on 6 April 1938, Beba gave birth to a son whom she named Oscar Espinosa.
Though the identity of Oscar’s father remained in doubt – even Juan’s family never knew for sure – it was noted that he had Juan’s eyes, face and bowed legs.[/quote]
Fangio’s body will be exhumed, per a judge’s order, sometime soon.
Don’t picture it.[/quote]
What the fuck :/
[editline]15th July 2015[/editline]
I was hoping they wouldn't have to dig up his body... oh well.
That's disrespectful.
[QUOTE=DiCiSpitfire;48212218]That's disrespectful.[/QUOTE]
It's just a corpse, who gives a shit. The corpse certainly doesn't care.
[QUOTE=DiCiSpitfire;48212218]That's disrespectful.[/QUOTE]
The idea of keeping a guy's parentage in doubt to avoid disrespect to a corpse seems a little excessive to me.
[QUOTE=catbarf;48212404]The idea of keeping a guy's parentage in doubt to avoid disrespect to a corpse seems a little excessive to me.[/QUOTE]
It's unfortunate that it has to happen, but I suppose necessary. If he's making up shit then he can go fuck himself.
[QUOTE=DiCiSpitfire;48212218]That's disrespectful.[/QUOTE]
no, it has to be done in order to know the truth. Nothing disrespectful in it.
[QUOTE=DiCiSpitfire;48212218]That's disrespectful.[/QUOTE]
Mr Fangio stopped giving a flying donkey fuck what happened to that body the moment he left it 20-odd years ago.
Whats weird is how the article talks about his [i]body[/i] more specifically than him as a person. I've never seen a news article written like this before.
[quote]It’s pretty much impossible to overstate the degree to which Juan Manuel Fangio’s body heralded success in F1. With his body, he won the World Driver’s Championship five times with four different teams, and still holds the highest winning percentage of any driver. And when he was in his heyday, his body was already old as hell compared to most other F1 drivers, first becoming championship when it was already 40.[/quote]
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;48213367]Whats weird is how the article talks about his [i]body[/i] more specifically than him as a person. I've never seen a news article written like this before.[/QUOTE]
It's meant to be humerus.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;48214210]It's meant to be humerus.[/QUOTE]
Actually its exhumerous
[QUOTE=DiCiSpitfire;48212218]That's disrespectful.[/QUOTE]
well Juan should speak up for himself if he has such a problem with it
[QUOTE=zakedodead;48216509]Actually its exhumerous[/QUOTE]I'm pretty sure it's posthumorous.
[QUOTE=Tone Float;48213070]It's unfortunate that it has to happen, but I suppose necessary. If he's making up shit then he can go fuck himself.[/QUOTE]
I feel the same way. When I first saw the headline, I knew it must not be a good situation, something bullshitty. While this remains to be seen whether it's a bullshit decision, the article certainly paints the situation as something I can't fully disagree to.
Had no idea Fangio lived that sort of lifestyle. I kind of think learning about the history of F1 can sometimes be more interesting than the sport itself :v:.
If it turns out the potato grower isn't his biological father this means he can't say he's a chip off the old block.
/see because potato-chip-father-son...it's funny
i'm going to put in my will that my leg should be pickled and kept in my children's house to easily solve any paternity disputes, for the rest of me will be shot out of a cannon into bermuda
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