Roberto Mieres
Roberto Mieres ( born December 3, 1924 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, † January 26, 2012 in Punta del Este, Uruguay ) was an Argentine racing driver and sailor.
Life
The son of a very wealthy family in Argentina was an unusually versatile athlete who excelled alongside the motorsport both in tennis, rugby, rowing, as well as in sailing. His motorsport merits he fought his way from 1947 in endurance racing his home behind the wheel of various pre-war cars, such as the 2.3 - liter supercharged Alfa Romeo or the Mercedes SSK.
Invited by Juan Manuel Fangio and José González Froilán to a " short trip " to Europe, he went in 1950 at the Grand Prix in Geneva, which did not count for the World Cup, to fourth place.
When Jean Behra was prevented due to an injury in 1953, the Gordini team invited him to start on one of their single-seaters. After he had at the World Cup also not counting the Grand Prix of Albi again achieved a fourth place, encouraged him this, to appoint a private Maserati 250F for the 1954 Formula 1 season.
He achieved this year two more ranks fourth in Bremgarten and the Grand Prix of Spain. During the 1955 Formula 1 season, he started at his home race in Argentina and performed it as the only driver alongside Juan Manuel Fangio, despite the high temperatures alone at the wheel of his car to endure. Was it at the Fangio ambition alone retract the victory and the points, it was the only option as a private in Robert. Another fourth place finish at the Grand Prix of the Netherlands, in which he had prevailed against strong competition, rounded off his career. He had become the best-placed Maserati pilot in that year - even before the much higher assessed Behra.
After an interlude in 1957 and 1958, when he located on Porsche at the 12 Hours of Sebring and Daytona, as well as on a OSCA in the Carrera Panamericana tried in Mexico in sports car racing, he worked temporarily as a works driver for Volvo in Argentina and Costa Rica. Then he said goodbye to final of motorsport. The reasons are not known, but as he increasingly devoted himself to the sport of sailing, in which he finally made it to take part in the Summer Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, was probably explains his motivation more here.
Last operation Mieres a farm in Uruguay.