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Jim Clark in the border rivers Aston Martin makes a brilliant start behind him Roy Salvadori, then the Grand Touring Aston's and Stirling Moss with the blue GT Ferrari. At the S's it's Clark and Salvadori, then Ginther's works Ferrari moving up, the French Aston, and Moss's Jean-Dubian's Ferrari. Then the rest of the field with Lester in n Lester and Peter Bolton are sticking close together in their tracks, but at the S's watch for now it's Jean-Dubian, Ginther and the Rodriguez boys, 3 Ferraris in the lead. The Rodriguez Ferrari n Pedro Rodriguez hands over to brother Ricardo and temporarily the Mexicans lose the lead. Now Phil Hill has taken over n Rain from the heavy grey skies induces a premature dusk as the Rodriguez Ferrari laps for the first time the Marston Graham Hill Berlinetta, and after four hours of racing the saloon lies fifth with 54 laps. The works Ferraris are first, third and fourth. Rodriguez second, one and a quarter minutes behind Phil Hill. After 12 hours of racing, Le Mans is almost lonely. But at 5 am, first light, the crowd begins to stir and realizes that incredibly this race is only just past the halfway stage. The Rodriguez boys are in the lead by 16 seconds and the snarling exhausts sound a tri But as Balacet calmly takes over n The Rodriguez car has lost almost 20 minutes at its pit. The electrical trouble which had temporarily slowed Slotamarka the night before has dropped the Mexicans from first to fourth place, five laps behind the leaders. Middle French cars battle as usual for their handicap, but once again the excitement of the race is focused on the leaders. Phil Hill and John Evillian are still under heavy pressure for the Rodriguez brothers in Ferrari 17 are carving away their lead. Mike Parks and Mu00e9risse with Ferrari n Aware of the ferocious Ferrari battle, the Tri Rodriguez about to take Mike Parks is now in the three laps behind the leader and gaining fast while others lose slowly. Suddenly with only two hours to go in comes Pedro Rodriguez. But there's no fire to extinguish except the flame of a gallant and full-on hope. After 22 hours of desperate struggle against overwhelming odds, the Ferrari entered by the North American racing team succ But the little Mexicans, Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez have won the hearts of a quarter of a million spectators and the admiration of every motorsport enthusiast in the world. Sterling Moss knows how it feels to beaten by Miss Fortune and Pedro realizes that he was making up enough time for it to have been just possible to win. But they're sportsmen as well as fighters, these brave little Mexicans, the Rodriguez brothers. Now Mike Parks comes in, secure in second place at his first Le Mans. As the Belgian Ville Mares takes over the last spell from the Englishman, there are four laps behind their teammates in the lead but a clear nine laps ahead of their nearest pursuer. Even now there is still time for defeat. The Healy 3000 of Beckett and Stoop comes to rest as the vanquished Rodriguez car is saluted by the crowd.
