Fangio's body exhumed to settle paternity claims


File photo from 1995 showing Argentina's five-time Formula One world champion Juan Manuel Fangio, next to a model of one of the cars that he drove during his long Formula One career. REUTERS/FILE

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Formula One great Juan Manuel Fangio’s body was exhumed on Friday to try to resolve paternity cases brought by two men claiming to be the five-times world champion’s son.

Judge Rodrigo Cataldo ordered the exhumation, carried out at the cemetery in the Argentine town of Balcarce where Fangio was born and died in the presence of officials of the Juan Manuel Fangio Foundation, to take DNA samples from the body.

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