Ángel Lo Valvo

Argentine racing driver

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Ángel Lo Valvo (August 11, 1909^[1] in Arrecifes, Buenos Aires Province^{[citation needed]} – January 8, 1978) was an Argentine race-car driver^[2] who won the first-ever Turismo Carretera competition in 1937. Lo Valvo also won the first Turismo Carretera Championship in 1939.

He entered some races using pseudonym Hipómenes, a Spanish-language term for Greek mythology personage, Hippomenes.