S1 Ep178: How Two Brothers Brought F1 to Mexico
Past Gas
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🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
If you’re an F1 fan, you’re probably familiar with the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City. But who ARE the Hermanos Rodriguez? What impact did they have on motorsports in Mexico? And is being fearless really a good quality for a race car driver, or indicative of future disaster? Today on Past Gas, the story of Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez.
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| 0:00.0 | Big thanks to Valveline for sponsoring this episode of Past Gas. Do you know |
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| 0:19.3 | Eight time World Rally Champion Sebastian Oje was primed to defend his title at |
| 0:24.5 | the 2022 World Rally Cross season opener in Monte Carlo. As the four-day event |
| 0:29.6 | progressed the man who dominated Rally Cross for the last decade was in the |
| 0:33.5 | lead and tell you found himself competing with an unexpected aggressor a 47-year |
| 0:38.4 | old dude who hadn't participated in a WRC event in over a year driving a car |
| 0:43.2 | he never raced. It was Sebastian Loeb. How did Sebastian Loeb become a racing |
| 0:48.1 | icon despite not getting behind the wheel of a professional car until he was |
| 0:51.7 | 21 years old? How has he been able to dominate the highest levels of Rally Cross |
| 0:55.8 | but taken on Le Mans, the X Games and the World Touring Car Championship? And what |
| 1:00.4 | do other pillars of the racing world think of our boys Sebastian? Well we have |
| 1:04.1 | answers to those questions and a whole lot more this week on Past Gas. You can get |
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| 1:14.4 | It's October 2015. Sergio Perez still can't believe that he'll be driving in the |
| 1:28.1 | first Mexican Formula 1 event in over 21 years. Only the sixth native born Mexican |
| 1:35.6 | driver in Formula 1 history, Perez beams with pride as he watches his |
| 1:40.1 | competitors practice at the famed Otto Drummo Hermannos Rodriguez in Mexico City. |
| 1:45.5 | The track is named after Perez's heroes Ricardo and Pedro Rodriguez, the first |
| 1:51.0 | Mexican drivers in Formula 1 history. As Perez himself put it quote, Pedro and |
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