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By Carlos Eduardo Jalife-Villalón. 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. 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. 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. Hardback, 607 Pages, Size: 225 x 340mm. Book is new and unread
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