Francisco José Cróquer
[1] By then, the Cavalcade was aired through NBC Red Network and extended their Spanish programming activities to Latin American countries, where it was known as the Cabalgata Deportiva Gillette.[7] Since the emergence of radio-broadcast baseball in the country, Venezuela's love and fascination with the sport was increased by the play-by-play announcers who described and interpreted the resulting action with their own conversational style and knowledge of the game.As a result, his listeners undoubtedly and proudly dubbed him, simply, Pancho Pepe, and it took a little longer than that for him to build a solid fanbase and reach national legend status.In 1948 he participated in the Gran Premio de la América del Turismo Carretera, which was a touring car racing competition organized by the Automóvil Club Argentino throughout 9,579 km (5,950 miles) and distributed in 14 stages between Buenos Aires and Caracas.He then won the national championship in 1954 and joined the Maserati team in the First International Grand Prix of Caracas in November 1955, where he faced Jean Behra, Eugenio Castellotti, Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss, Luigi Musso and Alfonso de Portago, among other driving celebrities.