Ricardo Rodríguez (racing driver)

Ricardo Rodríguez

Nation:	Mexico
Automobile world championship
First start:	1961 Italian Grand Prix
Last start:	1962 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1961–1962 Ferrari
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-13. ( 1962 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 5 - - -
World Cup points :	4th
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Ricardo Rodríguez de la Vega (born February 14, 1942 in Mexico City , † November 1, 1962 ) was a Mexican racing driver .

Career

Ricardo Rodríguez was one of the youngest starters of all time in the automobile world championship . His first race was the 1961 Italian Grand Prix . At the age of 19 years, 6 months and 28 days, he drove for Scuderia Ferrari in a Ferrari 156 . He immediately qualified in second place on the grid and held the record for almost 55 years as the youngest driver to get a place on the front row of the grid in the Formula 1 World Championship. It wasn't until August 27, 2016 that he lost this record to Max Verstappen , who also finished second in qualifying for the 2016 Belgian Grand Prix .

Rodríguez was registered for six races, but started only in five of these Grands Prix. His best result was fourth place in the 1962 Belgian Grand Prix , which earned him three World Championship points. Just one race later at the German Grand Prix , he finished sixth and scored another point, his last.

On November 1, 1962, he had a fatal accident with a Lotus in training for the Mexican Grand Prix , which was not part of the World Championship . In the Peraltada curve, he crashed into the boundary and died from the force of the impact. The cause of the accident remained unclear. His older brother Pedro was also a racing driver. In 1979 the Magdalena Mixhuca racetrack in Mexico City was renamed Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez after the brothers Pedro and Ricardo Rodríguez .

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1961	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 156	Ferrari 1.5 V6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1962	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 156	Ferrari 1.5 V6	4th	-	-	-	-	-	4th	13.
total				5	-	-	-	-	-	4th

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1961
							DNF
1962
	DNF	DNS	4th			6th	DNF

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1959	Automobili Osca	Osca Sport 750TN	Pedro Rodríguez	failure	water pump
1960	North American Racing Team	Ferrari 250TR59	André Pilette	Rank 2
1961	North American Racing Team	Ferrari 250TRI / 61	Pedro Rodríguez	failure	Engine failure
1962	Ferrari SEFAC Spa	Ferrari Dino 246SP	Pedro Rodríguez	failure	Gearbox damage

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1959	Alejandro de Tomaso	Osca S750	Isabelle Haskell	Alejandro de Tomaso	Denise McCluggage	Rank 18
1960	North American Racing Team	Ferrari Dino 196S	Pedro Rodríguez			failure	Clutch damage
1961	NART	Ferrari 250TR60	Pedro Rodríguez			Rank 3
1962	North American Racing Team	Ferrari Dino 246SP	Pedro Rodríguez			failure	Engine failure

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
1959	Alejandro de Tomaso Osca	Osca S750	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			18th			DNF
1960	NART P. u. R. Rodriguez	Ferrari Dino 196S Ferrari 250TR	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
				DNF	7th	DNF	2
1961	NART Ferrari	Ferrari 250TR Ferrari 250TRI	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
			3	DNF	2	DNF
1962	NART Ferrari	Ferrari Dino 246SP Ferrari Dino 268SP Ferrari 250 GTO	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
			2		DNF		1		DNF	DNF							1

See also

• List of fatally injured Formula 1 drivers

Web links

Commons : Ricardo Rodríguez  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dominik Sharaf, Ruben Zimmermann: Next Verstappen record: What is possible from second place? Motorsport-Total.com, August 27, 2016, accessed on August 27, 2016 .