Notes:
The Vuelta de Balcarce – Lobería, fifth round of the 1968 Turismo Carretera series, held on Sunday, 28 April 1968, was marred by a number of accidents that resulted in the deaths of eight people, five competitors and three spectators, being twenty-six others injured.

The public roads course of the two-lap race was triangular in shape, running clockwise and beginning in Balcarce, through Otamendi, Mechongué, Necochea, Quequén, Lobería, Napaleofú, Balcarce, in province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Almost 95 of the 343 kms of the circuit were on gravel roads, the rest on asphalt. With Juan Manuel Fangio who acted as race director, 105 teams started the 685.600-kilometer race. Carlos Pairetti was the winner at the wheel of a Barracuda - Chevrolet at an average speed of 207.813 km/h.

It is believed that the poor state of the roads was one of the causes of the accidents. In a contemporary newspaper interview, the Argentine engineer Rafael Sierra said: "No se puede correr con autos de 1968 sobre caminos de 1940" ("It is impossible to run in a 1968 car on a 1940 road").

First occurred the accident that claimed the life of one spectator. While passing along the Ruta Nacional 88 on the first lap, at the Almacén La Polola (now called Los Ortiz), near the village of Comandante Nicanor Otamendi, the driver Raúl Salerno lost control of his racing car #62. It went off the road and hit a group of spectators, killing one of them, Raúl Alberto Larranegui, aged 17, who died on the spot.

The second accident of the 1968 Vuelta de Balcarce – Lobería happened on a gravel road near the village of Tamangueyú, less than four kilometers before the small town of Lobería. Jorge Kissling and his co-driver Enrique "Quique" Duplán, driving the light-blue IKA Torino 380W #102 which had been modified for racing purposes by Jorge Cupeiro’s team crashed. The car rolled and caught fire, both men were killed almost instantly. It was rumored that it was caused by a broken steering arm.

On second lap of the race, while travelling along the Ruta Nacional 226 between Balcarce and Mar del Plata, two competitors collided. The accident occurred near the village of Laguna Brava, in front of the large property named "La Peregrina", owned by the family of the famous Argentine racer Juan Manuel Bordeu. The car #37 driven by Plinio Abel Rosetto touched wheels with Luis M. Gargiulo’s #46 car. Both vehicles went out of control and overturned, ending on a field beside the road. Rosetto’s co-driver Rubén Barra was severely injured in the accident. He was taken to the Sanatorio Central in the Ciudad de Mar del Plata, where he succumbed to his injuries in the following days. Presumably, he died two days after the accident, but it is not confirmed.

The last accident occurred at the end of second lap, nearly the finish line of the race at Balcarce. While passing in a narrow stretch of the same Ruta Nacional 226, near El Dorado, the red IKA Torino 380W #42 driven by Segundo Taraborelli and his co-driver Hugo Bonavento left the road and crashed at full speed into a stationary lorry. The impact ruptured the fuel tank and the racing car erupted in flames, taking over 10 minutes to extinguish. Both racers burned to death, and two spectators standing in the lorry were also involved and lost their lives. They were Héctor Fisicaro, owner of the lorry, and his 13-year-old son Juan Fisicaro. Different accounts state that three spectators instead of two were killed in this accident; this has not yet been confirmed.

The toll of this race’s accidents was one of the worst in the history of Turismo Carretera series. In consequence of these tragedies the Argentinean Government suspended every motorsport event for thirty days in the country. All the following rounds of the 1968 Turismo Carretera series in public roads course were prohibited until the end of the season. Races were held only in race tracks, except for the Vuelta de Allen which presented an excellent road circuit for the occasion. In November of 1968 the classic road race Gran Premio Argentino was replaced by the "Torneo Triangular", three circuit races organized at the Autódromo de Rafaela, the Autódromo de Alta Gracia and the Autódromo Municipal del Parque Almirante Brown de Buenos Aires. According to the law 7412 of the Provincia de Buenos Aires, the Autómovil Club Argentino did not organize any other racing event on gravel roads in the province territory.

A native of Buenos Aires, Jorge Kissling had been a successful motorcycle racing rider in Argentina, in Europe and in the United States. He had won the first Grand Prix of Argentine counting toward the 1961 Motorcycle World Championship 500 cm³ class, riding a Matchless. In the mid-1960 he switched to cars. Jorge and his brother Raúl Kissling were two rising stars in the Argentine motorsport scene. They became front-runners in the Fórmula 4, also known as Mini-Juniors, a new category for small single-seaters which was created by the ACA (Automóvil Club Argentino) in 1965, winning a number of races. Jorge won the Fórmula 4 Championship in 1966, before moving to touring-car races. He participated also in the 1967 Temporada Argentina Formula 3, driving an obsolete BWA. Years later, a third brother, Guillermo Kissling also became a talented Turismo Carretera racer.

Jorge Kissling had his debut in the Turismo Carretera series just in the 1968 Vuelta de Balcarce – Lobería, which proved to be fatal. He replaced Benedicto Caldarella who abandoned Cupeiro's team several weeks before the race. His unfortunate co-driver Enrique Duplán, mostly known as "Quique" had been Cupeiro's usual acompañante, sometime racing also with Carlos Marincovich. He was racing for the first time alongside Kissling. In the beginning of 1968 season he wanted to do only his job as a race mechanic in the team, but following the insistence of Kissling, he agreed to race with him. According to eyewitnesses reports, a few minutes before the accident the car appeared to have had some problem in the steering mechanism and Duplán was operating in the cockpit, trying to fix the problem. What really happened remained unknown, because in the accident and subsequent fire the car was completely destroyed.

Jorge Kissling was survived by his wife Estela Ferrari Kissling, aged 27.

Enrique Duplán was survived by his wife Stella de la Fuente Duplán and their daughter, Sandra María.

The IKA (Industrias Kaiser Argentina) was a subsidiary or branch of Kaiser Industries of the USA, of Jeep fame, and built Jeep and American Motors vehicles in their Alta Gracia, Cordoba, Argentina plant. They later struck a deal with Renault and started manufacturing models as the Dauphine 1093 and other Renault motorcars.

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