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At the time, Clark described the accident by saying: "Von Trips and I were racing along the straightaway and were nearing one of the banked curves, the one on the southern end. We were about 100 metres from the beginning of the curve. Von Trips was running close to the inside of the track. I was closely following him, keeping near the outside.
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.
In the Grand Touring class, one of the works driver, Wolfgang von Trips had an accident in the challenging Breidscheid section, following a change in a pedal layout in his Ferrari 250 GT. He was admitted to hospital with cuts and bruises and was unable to participate in the race. [2]
But at 7.30am, the NART car came into the pits with a bad misfire, and it took half an hour to fix. Von Trips and Ginther had driven hard after their delay and managed to get back up to second place, four laps behind Hill/Gendebien. But then at 8am, another bad miscalculation by the Ferrari team ran von Trips out of fuel in consecutive Le Mans ...
Wolfgang von Trips: 10 Sep 1961 [2] Curva Parabolica 1961 FIA Formula 1 World Championship: 1961 Italian Grand Prix: Ferrari Dino 156 22 Marcello De Luca: 16 Sep 1962 Curva Parabolica 1962 Campionato Italiano Formula Junior 1962 Coppa Junior Monza: Dagrada - Lancia 23 Norberto Bagnalasta: 28 June 1964 Rettifilo Tribune 1964 Italian F3 Championship
In 1961, Clark was involved in one of the worst accidents in the history of F1 racing. In the 1961 Italian Grand Prix on 10 September at Monza, Wolfgang von Trips in his Ferrari collided with Clark's Lotus. [8] [9] Von Trips's car became airborne and crashed into a side barrier, fatally throwing von Trips out of the car and killing fifteen ...
The event spanned two days and followed a round-trip route from the northern city of Brescia to Rome and back that roughly totaled 1,000 miles. The race was notoriously dangerous, with a total of ...
The race was won by German Wolfgang von Trips, who had led for much of the race after starting from fourth place on the grid. This was von Trips's second but also his final Grand Prix victory as two races later he was killed in an accident during the 1961 Italian Grand Prix ; it was also the last full-length Grand Prix won by a German until ...