Jo Ramírez
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Jo Ramírez (right)
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| Born |
Joaquín Ramírez Fernández August 20, 1941 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Nationality |
 Mexican
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| Other names | Jo |
| Education | UNAM |
| Occupation | F1 Mechanic, Author |
| Known for | Team McLaren Coordinator (1984–2001) |
| Spouse(s) | Bea Ramírez |
| Children | 1 |
Joaquín "Jo" Ramírez Fernández (born August 20, 1941, Mexico City) is an author and retired employee of several sports car racing teams. From 1984 to 2001 Ramírez was coordinator of the McLaren Formula One team, including during the infamous Prost / Senna clash of the late-1980s.
The third of eight children, Ramírez was born in Mexico City and studied mechanical engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Contrary to his father desires he dropped out in 1960 to follow his friend Ricardo Rodríguez to Europe. Ramírez worked as apprentice mechanic for Scuderia Ferrari for two years. When Rodríguez died in a racing crash in the Mexican GP in 1962, Ramírez took a job in Maserati first and later in Lamborghini's as a mechanic of their new line of high performance road cars. In 1964 he moved to England where he worked for Ford on the GT40, before joining Dan Gurney’s All American Racers team in 1966.
During the 1960s and '70s Ramírez worked for several teams, including Dan Gurney's Eagle, Tyrrell, where founder Ken Tyrrell advised him to keep a diary of his time in the sport, and for Wilson and Emerson Fittipaldi in their Fittipaldi Copersucar F1 team.
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