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Wolfgang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximilian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips (German pronunciation: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ fɔn tʁɪps] ⓘ; 4 May 1928 – 10 September 1961), also simply known as Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, was a German racing driver.
Sep 6, 2023 · Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators were killed on the second lap of the race at Monza after von Trips tanlged with Jim Clark. However the race continued and von Trips’ Ferrari team mate Phil Hill won the world championship on this bleak day for Formula 1.
But Count Wolfgang von Trips, his teammate and rival for racing's greatest prize, lay dead, as did 14 spectators, and the sport of motor racing, already scarred by the dead of Le Mans in...
Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips (1928-1961), nicknamed ‘Taffy’ by friends and fellow racers, was a German racing driver, son of a noble Rhineland family. Trips participated in 29 Formula One races.
Nicknamed “Taffy” by Mike Hawthorn, Wolfgang von Trips initially had a reputation for erratic driving. However, in 1961, he reached peak career, winning the Dutch and British Grands Prix and entering the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on the brink of clinching the World Championship.
Biography of Formula 1 driver Wolfgang von Trips, who was killed in a crash while competing for the world championship in 1961.
The race was marked by one of the most terrible accidents in the history of Formula One, when on the end of lap 2, at the approach to the Parabolica, German driver Wolfgang von Trips lost control of his Ferrari after colliding with the Lotus of Jim Clark and crashed into a fence line of spectators, killing 15 and himself.
Officials run toward the body of West German driver Count Wolfgang Von Trips at the side of the track after his fatal collision during the Italian Grand Prix on Sept. 10, 1961. On lap two, Scotsman Jimmy Clark, driving a Lotus, dueled with Von Trips.
MONZA, Italy, Sept. 10 -- Count Wolfgang von Trips, one of the world's fastest auto racing drivers, was killed today in a spectacular accident that took the lives of eleven spectators at the...
Apr 9, 2015 · There is a monumental difference between winning the World Championship and almost winning it. Perhaps this is why little is written, or remembered, of Wolfgang von Trips. But in the year of his death he established a go-kart racetrack near Kerpen. Decades later, it was leased by Rolf Schumacher.
