{"id":117026,"date":"2001-07-01T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2001-07-01T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=117026"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:35:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:35:19","slug":"ricardo-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/ricardo-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"Automotive Art &#8211; Wally Thomason&#8217;s &#8220;Ricardo Rodriguez&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Ricardo Rodriguez Artwork<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wally Thomason pays tribute to the young Mexican\u2019s brilliant, but all-too-short career.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Younger brother of Pedro, the fiery Mexican was his country\u2019s 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\u2019d rolled their 196 Dino more than once. The Ferrari was a muddy, wretched looking mess \u2013 aluminum and plexiglass pointed every which way \u2013 and they still came through to finish seventh overall! Fearlessness was always valued at Ferrari, and the brothers Rodriguez had that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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The Ferrari was a muddy, wretched looking mess \u2013 aluminum and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":680648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11296,263,11272],"tags":[16904,17152,11588],"class_list":["post-117026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-history","category-car-culture","category-members-only","tag-automotive-art","tag-car-culture","tag-ricardo-rodriguez"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Automotive Art - Wally Thomason&#039;s &quot;Ricardo Rodriguez&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wally Thomason pays tribute to the young Mexican\u2019s brilliant, but all-too-short career.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/ricardo-rodriguez\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Automotive Art - Wally Thomason&#039;s &quot;Ricardo Rodriguez&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wally Thomason pays tribute to the young Mexican\u2019s brilliant, but all-too-short career.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/ricardo-rodriguez\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2001-07-01T19:00:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-02T19:35:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/07\/AH200107-fea.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"702\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"336\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Wally Thomason\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Wally Thomason\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/ricardo-rodriguez\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/ricardo-rodriguez\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Wally Thomason\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3ee0316e73c77ef14055f65df7560d3b\"},\"headline\":\"Automotive Art &#8211; 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