Pedro Rodriguez

Ruan Manuel Fangio is an Argentine driver who dominated the car-racing of the 50s. His talent is such as he wins 5 Worldchampion titles with 4 different teams. In 1955, he makes a bracket in his Formula 1 season to participate in LeMans 24 Hours at the wheel of Mercedes-Benz 300SLR. Just running behind Pierre Levegh's carthat is at the origin of the terrible accident which killed 80 people, he narrowly escapes the drama. 

He is represented here in one of his favorite positions which we can observe on numerous original pictures, that is to say, hands on the hips and holding his helmet. We notice details of his watch. 

This gentleman of the 60s is in fact the reproduction of Enzo Ferrari, leaning against a low wall and reading a newspaper. He was a driver then became an Italian industrialist. He created Scuderia Ferrari in 1929 which becomes a pillar of the racing cars championships and then he founded Ferrari Automobili in 1947 which designs, manufactures and sells luxury sports cars in Modena. 

Then old of about sixty years. He is reading the Italian newspaper " Motori nel Mondo ". The figurine is delivered with the wall and the leather bag.

The career of the French racing driver Didier Pironi marked the spirits by its fulgurance and its diversity and the numerous friendships which he had bound within the automobile world.

He indeed ran for the biggest automobile marks of the 70s both in Formula 1 as in endurance: Tyrrell, Ligier, Ferrari Porsche or Alpine Renault. He takes away the most prestigious races among which the LeMans 24 hours in 1978 beside Jean-Pierre Jaussaud. In spite of the accident which stops clear his career in 1983 he is a vice-champion of the World of F1.

The most striking friendship is the one that he maintained with Gilles Villeneuve whom he meets at Ferrari: competitors on the track, faithful friends in the life until the death separates them when Villeneuve who wants to take his revenge on his defeat of San Marin kills during the qualifications of Grand Prix of Belgium in May, 1982 by wanting to beat Pironi.

After his racing driver's career is broken he dashes in 1986 thanks to Philippe Streiff into the offshore race. He kills at the wheel of his boat the Colibri ("Hummingbird") in August, 1987.