Memories of Ricardo Rodriguez
#51
Posted 01 November 2007 - 00:00
Please Credit the David Castelhano Collection
#53
Posted 01 November 2007 - 10:37
#54
Posted 01 November 2007 - 20:17
He died trying doing what he did best, going faster.
#55
Posted 02 November 2007 - 01:13
#56
Posted 02 November 2007 - 01:30
Originally posted by William Hunt
Are there any good books / biographies on the Rodriguez brothers.
I've been waiting for what seems an eternity for Brothers Rodriguez to be published in English. If you hear any news about it, please post it on the book thread.
Jack
#58
Posted 18 November 2008 - 20:45
#59
Posted 19 November 2008 - 21:23
the biography in English is gonna come out at the Amelia Island Concours D'Elegance in March, The Brothers Rodríguez is the title and this time it is definite, we are already prnting somewhere in China. The book is over 600 pages, ovver 4000 pictures and the text is something big too. And it seems Mike Argetsinger is having his Donohue book out at the same time, so we can race each other as Pedro and Mark did!
Yours truly
Carlos Jalife
#61
Posted 20 November 2008 - 10:45
Brian
#62
Posted 27 February 2009 - 03:09
#63
Posted 27 February 2009 - 13:50
I asked David Piper a couple of years ago and he said they took her to Japan somewhere in the mid-nineties for a Porsche reunion and she was OK at first but got very depressed on the way back home, going through all the emotions again. He then lost contact with her. There's a Pedro tribute movie on you tube where a guy says in one of the comments that Glenda is married to his father. I believe he was Dutch. That's all I know.
#64
Posted 27 February 2009 - 15:02
#67
Posted 06 October 2009 - 16:14
Some 30 days ago Carlos Jalife told me he is now in contact with Glenda, who is in EnglandWould anyone know what became of Glenda Foreman who was Pedro's girlfriend?
#68
Posted 07 October 2009 - 13:04
DM
#69
Posted 07 October 2009 - 13:50
#70
Posted 07 October 2009 - 14:25
DM
#71
Posted 07 October 2009 - 15:00
#72
Posted 07 October 2009 - 23:58
Tom
#74
Posted 02 November 2009 - 03:22
Sad day.
Great photo Luc, wanna tell us more about it?
Godspeed, Ricardo
cj
#75
Posted 02 November 2009 - 21:02
Pedro also drove the car at Sebring and Mexico City in 1961 and at La Loma in 1962.
Wonder where that car could be now.
Here are some more pics of Ricardo and the Cooper from 1961 :
#76
Posted 03 November 2009 - 01:00
Well, it's Ricardo in a Cooper T56 BMC Formula Junior. He ran the car twice (in Mexico City 1961 and 62 finishing 1st and 2nd resp.).
Pedro also drove the car at Sebring and Mexico City in 1961 and at La Loma in 1962.
Wonder where that car could be now.
Here are some more pics of Ricardo and the Cooper from 1961 :
great pics!!
the Esso sponsorship in the first picture, was it a one off??
i haven't seen a lot of images with that sticker...
regards
cj
#77
Posted 01 November 2012 - 17:11
#78
Posted 01 November 2012 - 21:10
Obvoiusly the story behind this photo has two sides...
First of all the car: Ferrari Dino 246 '0002'. On the one side it had won the International Trophy and the British GP in the hands of Peter Collins in 1958, and also had won two Grandes Épreuves at Reims and AVUS in the hands of Tony Brooks in 1959, but on the other side being the car in which Peter Collins fatally crashed.
Then the people. Chimeri, the first F1 Venezuelan, who had been entered by Escuderia Sorocaima to drive a Maserati 250F '2528' (in which Fangio won the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix and Behra triumphed at Pau, Modena and Ain Diab same year, later owned by Francesco Godia), had nothing to do but just to watch the race outside the track as his 7000 bolivar-costed new acquisition didn't arrive in time to Florida due to shipping delay. Early February 1960 Chimeri would finally make his WDC debut at Argentine GP. But only to be killed in Ferrari 250 TR during Gran Premio Libertad, a sports car race at Havana, three weeks later, on 27th February 1960.
Wolfgang von Trips died on 10th September 1961 while approaching to Monza's Parabolica curve. Ricardo found his end on 1st November, 1962 at lonely Magdalena Mixhuca's Peraltada curve. Pedro, just being crowned as World Sportscar Champion for a second consecutive year, followed him on 11th July 1971 at Norisring. While Pietro 'Dino' Turco, El Mago de Los Rosales who was a mechanic of Chimeri's Fangio Maserati, passed away last week Monday, on 22nd October 2012 (more information here: http://diarioautomot.../home/?p=12253)
That's how promising the whole atmosphere may seem on the picture at first sight, and how nasty it finally ended...
#79
Posted 01 November 2012 - 21:38
Pictures by Heinrich Esch and Dr. Benno Müller.
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#80
Posted 04 November 2012 - 00:32
Wonder where that car could be now.
Well, Luc, the question you asked in 2009 is answered.
Yesterday, as I'm sure you're aware, we at Scuderia Rodriguez managed to pull off a huge event in the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez to commemorate Ricardo's 50th anniversary.
We held a Guard of Honour and, with the Cooper leading us, we symbolically finished the lap that Ricardo never was able to finish. Javier Velazquez flagged us. it was a very emotional moment.
We missed you at the celebration Luc, but I know you were there by heart.
some pics:
oh, and of course, godspeed Ricardo.
cj
Edited by cjpani, 04 November 2012 - 00:39.
#81
Posted 07 November 2012 - 19:32
regards