vonTrips

This is number 70 to the collection. SeVENTY
Im shook

Thank you to CynicalWolfie for giving me this boy!

Another racer who, despite not having a championship, is seriously respected and beloved by the fandom

I really should have gotten him sooner, however here he is (finally)

His familiar is named after a go-kart track he established in Germany. Said track is known for eventually being used by both Michael and Ralf Schumacher to start their racing career
And his helmet has a sigil in front of it I tried my best to replicate

Also, please be careful when looking up von Trips, there are a LOT of pictures of his accident and it is not pretty

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Formula One World Championship career Nationality: West German Active years: 1956 – 1961 Teams: Ferrari, Porsche, Scuderia Centro Sud Entries: 29 (27 starts) Championships: 0 Wins: 2 Podiums: 6 Career points: 56 Pole positions: 1 Fastest laps: 0 First entry: 1956 British Grand Prix First win: 1961 Dutch Grand Prix Last win: 1961 British Grand Prix Last entry: 1961 Italian Grand Prix Wolfgang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximilian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips (4 May 1928 – 10 September 1961), also known simply as Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips and nicknamed 'Taffy' by friends and fellow racers, was a German racing driver. He was the son of a noble Rhineland family. Von Trips was born in Cologne, Rhineland, Prussia, Germany. He had diabetes during his career and he always had high sugar snacks during the races to compensate for his low blood sugar levels. He participated in 29 Formula One World Championship Grand Prix races, debuting on 2 September 1956. He won two races, secured one pole position, achieved six podiums, and scored a total of 56 championship points. He sustained a concussion when he spun off track at the Nürburgring during trial runs for a sports car race held in May 1957. His Ferrari was destroyed. It was the only one of its marque to be entered in the Gran Turismo car class of more than 1600 cc. Von Trips was forced out of a Royal Automobile Club Grand Prix at Silverstone, in July 1958, when his Ferrari came into the pits on the 60th lap with no oil. The following August he was fifth at Porto in the 1958 Portuguese Grand Prix, which was won by Stirling Moss in a Vanwall. Von Trips completed 49 laps and was one lap behind at the finish. Moss was more than five minutes ahead of Mike Hawthorn, who finished second in a Ferrari. In July 1960 von Trips was victorious in a Formula Two event in a Ferrari, with a newly introduced engine in the rear. The race was in Stuttgart and was called the Solitude Formula Two Grand Prix. It was a 20-lap event with the winner averaging 164.49 km/h (102.21 mph) over 229 km (142 mi). He won the Targa Florio, 10-lap 721 kilometres (448 mi) race, in May 1961. Von Trips achieved an average speed of 103.42 km/h (64.26 mph) in his Ferrari with Olivier Gendebien of Belgium as his co-driver. Von Trips and Phil Hill traded the lead at Spa, Belgium during the 1961 Belgian Grand Prix, in June 1961. Hill led most of the way in front of a crowd of 100,000 people.

Ferraris captured the first four places at the race conclusion with von Trips finishing second. The Formula One World Championship driver competition at this juncture in 1961 was led by Hill with 19 points followed by von Trips with 18.

In 1961 von Trips established a go-kart race track in Kerpen, Germany. The track was later leased by Rolf Schumacher, whose sons, Michael and Ralf, made their first laps there.

The 1961 Italian Grand Prix on 10 September saw von Trips tightly locked in the battle for the Formula One World Drivers' Championship that year with his teammate Phil Hill. During the race at Monza, his Ferrari collided with Jim Clark's Lotus. His car became airborne and crashed into a side barrier, fatally throwing von Trips from the car, and killing fifteen spectators.

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