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Growing up, who were your car-industry heroes? Horacio Pagani: Fangio. He was my friend, first of all. He was an extraordinary person and the inspiration for the Zonda.There is a book by Roberto Carozzo called Fangio: Cuando El Hombre Es M s Que El Mito [Fangio: When the Man is More than the Myth] that summarises what he was. He was very rich, intellectually, humanly. A person of great simplicity. Our relationship was very deep.Then Bertone, Giugiaro, Pininfarina, Riva, for example. All of them are great men, not just great designers or entrepreneurs.Christian von Koenigsegg: My real hero was Reodor Felgen, from an old animated film called Pinchcliffe Grand Prix [Fl klypa Grand Prix in the original Norwegian]. Reodor was the bicycle repairman from a small village who built his own amazing racecar and went on to win against the odds. That film was my initial inspiration and remains so to this day.This feature was originally published in issue 278 of Top Gear magazine.
Date written: 10 Jun 2016
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Growing up, who were your car-industry heroes? Horacio Pagani: Fangio. He was my friend, first of all. He was an extraordinary person and the inspiration for the Zonda.There is a book by Roberto Carozzo called Fangio: Cuando El Hombre Es M s Que El Mito [Fangio: When the Man is More than the Myth] that summarises what he was. He was very rich, intellectually, humanly. A person of great simplicity. Our relationship was very deep.Then Bertone, Giugiaro, Pininfarina, Riva, for example. All of them are great men, not just great designers or entrepreneurs.Christian von Koenigsegg: My real hero was Reodor Felgen, from an old animated film called Pinchcliffe Grand Prix [Fl klypa Grand Prix in the original Norwegian]. Reodor was the bicycle repairman from a small village who built his own amazing racecar and went on to win against the odds. That film was my initial inspiration and remains so to this day.This feature was originally published in issue 278 of Top Gear magazine.
Date written: 10 Jun 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 3785
