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Pedro Rodriguez (racing driver)

Pedro Rodríguez
Pedro Rodríguez 1968 Nürburgring-1.jpg
Born (1940-01-18)18 January 1940
Mexico City, Mexico
Died 11 July 1971(1971-07-11) (aged 31)
Nuremberg, West Germany
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality Mexico Mexican
Active years 19631971
Teams Ferrari, Lotus, Cooper, BRM
Entries 54
Championships 0
Wins 2
Podiums 7
Career points 71
Pole positions 0
Fastest laps 1
First entry 1963 United States Grand Prix
First win 1967 South African Grand Prix
Last win 1970 Belgian Grand Prix
Last entry 1971 French Grand Prix
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971
Teams NART
OSCA Automobili
SpA Ferrari SEFAC
John Wyer Automotive
Best finish 1st (1968)
Class wins 1 S 5.0 (1968)

Pedro Rodríguez de la Vega (18 January 1940 – 11 July 1971) was a Mexican Grand Prix motor racing driver. He was the older brother of Ricardo Rodríguez.

Rodríguez was born in Mexico City, Mexico, the first son of the marriage of Pedro Natalio Rodríguez and Concepción "Conchita" Rodríguez (née de la Vega), and had three brothers, Federico, Ricardo and Alejandro, and a younger sister, Conchita.

At 15, his father sent him to Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois in order to learn English and to get more discipline.

Rodríguez brothers raced bicycles and motorcycles, becoming Mexican national motorcycle champion in 1953 and 1954. He made his international debut in cars at Nassau in 1957 in a Ferrari.

He married Angelina (née Dammy), in Mexico since 1961, although he had a girlfriend in England, Glenda Foreman, with whom he lived in Bray on Thames in his latter years, but left no children.

Rodríguez always traveled with a Mexican flag and a record of the national anthem because when he won the 1967 South African GP the organizers did not have the Mexican anthem, and instead played the Mexican hat dance.

Jo Ramírez was a very close friend to both Rodríguez as well as his younger brother Ricardo.

At 18 Rodríguez shared a Ferrari 500 TR at 24 Hours of Le Mans, entered by U.S. importer Luigi Chinetti, with José Behra, brother of Jean Behra, as his co-driver. Rodríguez came back every year to Le Mans, fourteen times in total, and won in 1968, co-driving with Belgian Lucien Bianchi, sharing a Ford GT40 for the JWGulf team.


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