Philippe Ledru – Signed Photo – Pedro Rodríguez - Formula 1 Motor Racing

Philippe LEDRU (1942), French photographer
Pedro Rodríguez de la Vega
Lithographic photo on art paper. Later print, numbered 5/10, captioned, dated and signed. Superb color portrait of the Mexican champion dated 1971 on a Formula 1 circuit. Image: 45 x 31.2 cm Sheet: 55 x 40 cm
Pedro Rodríguez de la Vega was born in 1940 in Mexico. He died in 1971, aged just 31, at the wheel of his Ferrari 512 M during a round of the Interserie championship at the Norisring track in Nuremberg, Germany. A great Mexican hope, he began by winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans at the wheel of a Ferrari in 1958. Subsequently, he entered Formula 1 at just 19 years old as an official driver for Scuderia Ferrari. He won his first circuit, the South African Grand Prix, in 1967 and in 1970, achieved a second success, at the Belgian Grand Prix. Philippe Ledru born in 1942, French photographer. After working for UNESCO, he decided to become a professional photographer and went on a reporting trip to South Africa, Angola and Mozambique. He joined the Sygma agency in the early 1970s. He left to capture events in Indonesia and Cambodia. In the 1980s, he regularly covered film festivals in Cannes and Deauville. His photo reports are regularly published in major French and international magazines.