{"id":18558,"date":"2019-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acpmotorsports.com\/?p=18558"},"modified":"2023-08-28T15:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T19:05:16","slug":"ricardo-rodriguez-mexico-1962-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/ricardo-rodriguez-mexico-1962-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"ricardo rodriguez mexico 1962 #F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6262\" src=\"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/post2\/Lastflag_ricardo_rodriguez__mexico_1962_-db6tl7e-827x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/post2\/Lastflag_ricardo_rodriguez__mexico_1962_-db6tl7e-827x1024.jpg 827w, https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/post2\/Lastflag_ricardo_rodriguez__mexico_1962_-db6tl7e-750x929.jpg 750w, https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/post2\/Lastflag_ricardo_rodriguez__mexico_1962_-db6tl7e-121x150.jpg 121w, https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/post2\/Lastflag_ricardo_rodriguez__mexico_1962_-db6tl7e-642x795.jpg 642w, https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/post2\/Lastflag_ricardo_rodriguez__mexico_1962_-db6tl7e.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Valent\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez de la Vega (MEX) (Rob Walker Racing Team), #Lotus 24 &#8211; Climax FWMV 1.5 V8 (DNS)Ricardo kisses his fathers hand, youngest brother Alejandro looks on and drives the Rob Walker owned #Lotus 24 Climax to his death. Rodr\u00edguez was considered a potential future champion already, but was left without a drive when #Ferrari opted not to enter the non-Championship<\/p>\n<p>1962 Mexican Grand Prix at the Magdalena Mixhuca Circuit, Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>He signed to drive Rob Walker&#8217;s #Lotus 24, but died during the first day of practice, when the #Lotus&#8217; rear right suspension failed at <!--more-->the fearsome Peraltada turn, and it hit the barriers killing him instantly. He was 20 years old and his death provoked national mourning in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>1962 Non-Championship Mexican Grand Prix, Magdalena Mixhuca Circuit<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricardo Valent\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez de la Vega (MEX) (Rob Walker Racing Team), #Lotus 24 &#8211; Climax FWMV 1.5 V8 (DNS)Ricardo kisses his fathers hand, youngest brother Alejandro looks on and drives the Rob Walker owned #Lotus 24 Climax to his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,141],"tags":[137,89],"class_list":["post-18558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-golden-age","tag-f1","tag-race-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43279,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18558\/revisions\/43279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}