NASA’s Johnson Space Center will host Strada Corsa Houston on the weekend of May 5-7, 2017, when enthusiasts of all...
Jo Siffert Peter Revson 1 Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez drive a NART Ferrari 250 GTO to victory in the 1000K...
Away from the start of Race 3 at Eagle Mountain in April of 1957, Dave Tallaksen’s 3.4-liter XK-SS (#147) shares the front row of the grid with Bob Schroeder’s Kurtis-Chevy (#233) as a pair of Corvettes give chase. Photo: Bob Jackson By late 1956 the production of Jaguar’s D-Type competition model...
George Follmer Photo: Walter Pietrowicz Jacques Laffite Photo: Mike Jiggle 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital...
With the recent passings of Carroll Shelby, Roy Salvadori and Ted Cutting, all key players for Aston Martin’s World Sportscar...
The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans did not look as though it would be a walkover for Phil Hill, the number one driver of the Ferrari works team and 1961 Formula One World Champion. Born in Miami, Florida, on April 20, 1927, the Santa Monica, California, resident had joined...
It exploded at me around a blind embankment, big truck, top-heavy, heeling as it hurtled downhill. What its driver saw,...
July 2009 The Rodriguez Brothers By Carlos Eduardo Jalife-Villalón In the early 1950s, two young Mexican brothers, Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez began racing motorcycles. Their father, Don Pedro, was a reasonably affluent entrepreneur who badly wanted his young sons to carve a name for themselves in motor sport. While still...
ex-Phil Hill 1963 ATS F1 The 1961 Formula One World Champion Phil Hill did not learn that most of the important...
1959 OSCA | 1960 Lotus 18 | 1963 Brabham BT6 Regular readers of VR will know that we have a fondness for...
On June 7–8, 1958, the Texas Region of the SCCA hosted a weekend of sports car racing 10 miles north of Fort Worth. The organizers laid out a 3-mile course at the National Guard Air Base near Eagle Mountain Lake, where 112 entries showed up to contest 10 scheduled “Sunburn”...
Gaston Chevrolet Ricardo Rodriguez 1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies on the way to the hospital after crashing his Lotus during practice...
Last year we celebrated a century of Grand Prix racing. The Grand Prix de l’Auto Club France was the first...
The Targa Florio: Sicily, May 6, 1962. A Ferrari mechanic at the service stop near Polizzi gives a salute to the Ferrari 246SP (n. 0790) which was driven to victory by Willie Mairesse, Ricardo Rodriguez (here at the wheel) and Olivier Gendebien. This image captures the essence of the Targa...
Graham Hill Frank Costin 1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroen (1989). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell, and Al...
February 11, 1962, brings back a very striking memory. I had been married for only eight days, yet for some...
Younger brother of Pedro, the fiery Mexican was his country’s motorcycle champion at age 15, graduated to sports cars at 16 and was a Ferrari F1 driver at 19. My favorite vignette of the Rodriguez brothers was the Targa Florio, in 1960 I think, between them, they’d rolled their 196...
Ricardo Rodriguez Giancarlo Baghetti 2 Ricardo Rodriguez dies in a crash during practice for the nonchampionship Mexican GP (1962). 3...
