Ferrari Mailing List: (LFC): 'The Brothers Rodriguez' - English Language Edition

[Red5hilser (Red5hilser]

The first time that I saw Ricardo race was the 1958 Times Grand Prix at  
Riverside. Papa had just bought him a brand new silver Porsche RSK Spyder  and 
he 
was entered in the under 2-litre class. I think that Ricardo was about 17  at 
the time.
 
I remember that the family was in the old pit area and his young, beautiful  
mother was sitting in a director's chair that was resting in the middle of a  
Persian rug, calmly knitting. The Old man was pacing around the  car, dressed 
in a nice sports outfit, wearing big tortoise shell dark  glasses and bossing 
the hired crew around. If Pedro was there, I didn't see  him.
 
Just after the car was rolled out to the grid, the priest that they had  
brought along from Mexico City, blessed Ricardo, with mom's hand on his  
shoulder.
 
Needless to say, the kid smoked the entire under 2-liter field,  including 
Ken Miles, who was driving for Otto Zipper I think.
 
Like the John Edgar operation, that was a class act.
 

Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba



         
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January 23, 2009  Update:  
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Hi  Bill, 
Great news from David Bull Publishing this morning. The  monumental task of 
translating Carlos Eduardo Jalife-Villalon's  acclaimed biography of Ricardo 
and Pedro Rodriguez has been completed  and the first shipment of the English 
Language Edition is scheduled to  arrive in a week or so. 
Here  are the details:   
THE BROTHERS RODRIGUEZ
by Carlos Eduardo  Jalife-Villalon
Forewords by Jackie Oliver and Jo  Ramirez
Hardcover: 9" x 13.25" / 607 pages 
Approximately 4,000  black & white and color photographs
$149.95  
Youth, glamour, and blinding speed made Pedro and Ricardo  Rodríguez national 
heroes in their native Mexico and instant legends in  the world of 
motorsports. Ricardo scored a podium finish at Le Mans in  1960, and then 
joined Ferrari 
as the youngest-ever Formula One driver.  After Ricardo's tragic death during 
practice for the first Mexican Grand  Prix, Pedro quickly built a dazzling 
reputation of his own, scoring  grand prix wins for Cooper and BRM, winning the 
1968 Le Mans 24 Hours,  and dominating sports-car racing driving the awesome 
Gulf-Porsche 917.  Then, at the peak of his talent, Pedro too was killed in a 
sports car  race in 1971. 

Along with their speed and versatility, Pedro and  Ricardo became known as 
two of the racing world's most colorful and  glamorous characters. In Mexico 
they were national heroes and personal  friends of the president, while in 
France, Germany, and other countries  they became adoptive favorite sons. They 
raced 
with such great drivers  as Stirling Moss, Phil Hill, Jim Clark, and Jackie 
Stewart, and served  such legendary taskmasters as Enzo Ferrari, Colin Chapman, 
Louis  Stanley, and John Wyer. 

Exhaustively detailed and lavishly  illustrated, with approximately 4,000 
color and black-and-white  photographs-many of them from the family's personal 
archives-The  Brothers Rodríguez tells the complete story of Pedro and 
Ricardo's 
 careers at the track, as well as their lives away from it. Author Carlos  
Eduardo Jalife-Villalón also sets their lives against the broader  backdrop of 
Mexico's politics and history, explaining how motor racing  and other sports 
helped the country to attract the world's attention  during the fast-changing 
decades of the 1950s and 1960s.  
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Based on the sample pages above, 'The Brothers Rodriguez'  looks like an 
exciting and informative look at two of the most colorful  characters in racing 
history. We've been waiting for a long time for the  English Edition. Thanks to 
the efforts of the Author and David Bull, it  looks like we won't be 
disappointed. 

- PAUL   





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