“Cars, speed, the smell of petrol were within me and I understood that it was the only path to follow…”. Reutemann admired Juan Manuel Fangio and Pancho Gonzales. After Fangio, no other driver was celebrated on the highest step of the podium. Argentina asked Carlos and he felt that he had an obligation to do as they asked. His Argentinian fans called him “Lole”, at Ferrari he was named “sad Gaucho”. He was a driver who drove with determination and enthusiasm.

Race after race, his style evolved to become neater and he abandoned his acrobatics on the bends, to become warier and more careful. Enzo Ferrari wrote about Carlos: “[…] he’s influenced by a tormented and tortuous temperament. He’s able to resolve difficult situations, by also compensating for occasional mechanical deficiencies, but he’s liable to wasting the results which he may have acquired from the start, due to his congenital emotionality. He concluded his honest career without ever winning the World championship”, from the book, “Piloti che gente…“