Monumento a Hèctor Suppici Sedes. (UPDATEs I + II + III)

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UPDATE III by Daniel Hector Costa...: "Héctor did not kill himself in that race. He had to abandon. Surpassing another car, the dust of the road inhibit him to see he was driving torwards a culvert -small stone bridge- and hit it at full speed. The front axle broke and that was it. Of the 141 cars inscribed for the race, N° 1 was for Juan M Fangio - Daniel Urrutia and N° 2 for Héctor Suppici Sedes- Silvestre Calache. N°(3) for Oscar Galvez - Federico Herrero. Fangio and Galvez crushed their cars in a surpassing manoeuvre. In Chicama (Peru) the car of Fangio turned upside down, and Daniel Urrutia died. Fangio then quit the race. Galvez could finish it. The next car behind them, that was 3rd. driven by Eusebio Marcilla was the first to arrive at the place of the accident, and Eusebio decided to quit the race, loaded both bodies in his car and drove to Trujillo's hospital. Due to this noble attitude, he was thereafter known as the " Caballero de la Ruta", Knight of the Road.-

Update II comes from George Cassidy: Äccording to this website(clic) (JMFangio.org) Suppici Sedes died during the Caracas-Lima ("La Caracas") road race in 1948."

UPDATE I: Responses came in from José A. Gomez and Daniel Hector Costa, both from Buenos Aires. Suppici Cedes was primarily active in 1935-1945. A retrospective was published 10 years ago by La nacion, newspaper of Buenos Aires. Another car of Suppici Sedes is also kept. Based on this information we found a link to a 1937 Ford V8 raced by Suppici Sedes (Club Amigos De Automoviles Antiguos , Argentina). See also 'Read More' about the racing specs of this Ford..

EARLIER TEXT: Diego Inzaurraga sent us these photos of a recently found 1927 Lincoln V-8 racer (click for side view). Now all specialists can tell you that Lincoln racers like this never existed. That is to say... never were made or raced in the US. Instead of the easy way out saying it is is a homemade crunchy cake - a Saturdaynight Special- we wouild like to take a closer look at the history that is now being researched. The owner claims that the car once belonged to the wellknown -in South America- Uruguayan driver Hèctor Supici Sedes who died during a race in Chili (when?). Now when you start searching the net for this driver his name is mentioned only twice... One time in this Argentinian site and once in a spanish language forum in conjunction with Fangio (a youthfriend?). We want to invite the South American racing specialists to learn us about the driver Supici Sedes. Just before his name would have lost in oblivion. And we may even try to find out when and where this care was [email protected] Go to READ MORE to learn about the winning Ford V8 of Suppici Sedes >>>

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