Post by donsking on Sept 10, 2007 23:11:41 GMT
It's just occured to me that we've missed, by a few minutes, the anniversary of the death of the man who should've been Germany's first WC F1 driver.
It was on September 10th 1961 that Wolfgang Von Trips had a coming together with Jim Clark at Monza, sending Taffy into a bank, killing him and several spectators; at the time he was looking like that year's champion, and it was snatched instead by his team-mate Phil Hill.
Fortunately for Germany's future motorsport prospects, he had already opened the kart track that would later be hired for testing purposes by the father of one Michael Schumacher, so maybe, even very indirectly, he got the championship he deserved..............
It was on September 10th 1961 that Wolfgang Von Trips had a coming together with Jim Clark at Monza, sending Taffy into a bank, killing him and several spectators; at the time he was looking like that year's champion, and it was snatched instead by his team-mate Phil Hill.
Fortunately for Germany's future motorsport prospects, he had already opened the kart track that would later be hired for testing purposes by the father of one Michael Schumacher, so maybe, even very indirectly, he got the championship he deserved..............