Diego Febles

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Diego Febles (born September 15, 1929 in Cuatro Caminos , San José de las Lajas , Cuba ; † December 18, 2011 ) was a Puerto Rican racing car driver and racing team owner.

Career

Diego Febles was born in Cuba and left the island for political reasons in 1957 under the Batista dictatorship , first went to Ecuador and later settled in Puerto Rico. He contested his first car race in 1957 as a Cuban, his greatest success as a Puerto Rican. In 1977 he finished second overall in the Sebring 12-hour race and third in the Daytona 24-hour race in 1978 . The two appearances at the 24 Hours of Le Mans ended prematurely after failures.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1976 Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Diego Febles Racing Porsche 911 Carrera RSR IrelandIreland Alec Poole United StatesUnited States Hiram Cruz failure Gearbox damage
1980 Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Diego Febles Racing Porsche 934 Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Armando Gonzales VenezuelaVenezuela Francisco Romero failure accident

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1975 Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Diego Febles Racing Porsche Carrera RSR United StatesUnited States Hiram Cruz Rank 8
1976 Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Diego Febles Racing Porsche Carrera RSR United StatesUnited States Hiram Cruz Rank 5
1977 Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Diego Febles Racing Porsche Carrera RSR United StatesUnited States Hiram Cruz Rank 2
1978 Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Diego Febles Racing Porsche 911 Carrera RSR IrelandIreland Alec Poole failure mechanics
1979 Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Diego Febles Racing Porsche Carrera United StatesUnited States Phil Currin failure Power transmission
1980 Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Coco Lopez Porsche 934 Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Mandy Gonzalez Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Chiqui Soldevilla Rank 33
1982 Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Diego Febles Racing Porsche Carrera RSR Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Tato Ferrer Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Chiqui Soldevilla 4th place and class win
1983 Costa RicaCosta Rica Latino Racing Porsche Carrera RSR Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Tato Ferrer Costa RicaCosta Rica Kikos Fonseca failure accident
1984 Costa RicaCosta Rica Latino Racing Porsche Carrera RSR El SalvadorEl Salvador Enrique Molins Costa RicaCosta Rica Kikos Fonseca failure Engine failure

literature

  • Ken Breslauer: Sebring. The official History of America's Great Sports Car Race. David Bull, Cambridge MA 1995, ISBN 0-9649722-0-4 .
  • Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .
  • JA Martin and Ken Welles: Prototypes - the History of the IMSA GTP Series . Bull Publishing, Phoenix 2000, ISBN 1-893618-01-3 .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Febles, Diego
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban-American automobile racer (Puerto Rico)
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Cuatro Caminos , San José de las Lajas , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2011