Early Life
The third of eight children, Ramírez was born in Mexico City and studied mechanical engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Contrary to his father desires he dropped out in 1960 to follow his friend Ricardo Rodríguez to Europe. When Rodríguez died in a racing crash in the Mexican GP in 1962, Ramírez took a job in Maserati first and later in Lamborghini's as a mechanic of their new line of high performance road cars. Ramírez is fluent in Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese.
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