102 “The planes were literally flying around my ears”: Ibid., 74.
103 “We were really down”: Ibid., 75.
105 “In a magnificent cloud of dust”: Ibid., 77.
106 “She stood out”: Ibid., 78.
107 “a girl who lit me on fire”: Ibid.
107 “She was like a princess”: Ibid., 79.
109 “He sleeps easily”: “Count Crash,” Der Spiegel, May 18, 1960.
109 “Man, Trips, now eat something”: Ibid.
109 “The count was a chicken”: Helmut Clasen, interview with Michael Dumiak, June 1, 2009.
109 “He always had accidents”: Ibid.
110 “At the moment my dreams are haunted by Porsches”: Louis et al., Vom Rittergut zur Rennstrecke, 131.
110 “I’ve become a different person”: Wolfgang von Trips diary, as quoted in Louis et al., Vom Rittergut zur Rennstrecke, 133.
110 “Every gold medal meant 75 smackers”: “Count Crash,” Der Spiegel, May 18, 1960.
111 “What we need, and now possess”: Alfred Neubaur to Hans-Willi Bernartz, as quoted in Jörg-Thomas Födisch et al., Trips: Erinnerungen an ein Idol (Heel: Königswinter, 1998), 29.
111 “I said, ‘The Mille Miglia?’ ”: “Von Trips Leads Way in Auto Trials at Monza,” New York Times, September 10, 1961.
112 “I was at a crossroads”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 88.
112 “I was half a minute late”: Ibid., 89.
112 “I had never seen the roads before”: “Von Trips Leads Way in Auto Trials at Monza,” New York Times, September 10, 1961.
113 “The experts looked at us”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 89.
113 “I’m sorry, no”: Ibid., 90.
113 “I always had the ambition”: Ibid., 73.
114 “I have no idea yet how to justify”: Wolfgang von Trips diary, as quoted in Louis et al., Vom Rittergut zur Rennstrecke, 133.
114 “That was the hardest”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 91.
114 “I thought I was struck by lightning”: Ibid.
115 “I was strained to the breaking point”: Ibid., 92.
115 “I request you call immediately”: Ibid., 94.
115 “He was an amazing character”: Dennis David, “Alfred Neubauer,” http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/neub_bio.htm.
116 “world’s loneliest human being”: Ibid.
117 “I notice how the big races stay with you”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 98.
117 “It would be very kind of you”: Wolfgang von Trips to Stirling Moss, as quoted in Louis et al., Vom Rittergut zur Rennstrecke, 211.
118 “Can you do anything for me?”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 103.
119 “The race leaders directed their gaze”: Ibid.
119 “To climb into the cockpit of a Formula 1 car”: Ibid., 104.
120 “was a fencing foil”: “Count Crash,” Der Spiegel, May 18, 1960.
120 “My arms were completely stiff”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 104.
120 “the right front wheel flutter”: Reinold Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips (Cologne: Greven Verlag, 1989), 221–222.
120 “I saw the tree coming at me”: “Von Trips Leads the Way in Auto Trials at Monza,” The New York Times, September 10, 1961.
121 “I lay on the ground”: Ibid.
121 “He looked at me like I was a ghost”: Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, 222.
121 “The next day I could barely move”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 105.
121 “I wanted to prove”: Ibid.
121 “Ferrari decided that if I wanted to drive that badly”: “Von Trips Leads Way in Auto Trials at Monza,” New York Times, September 10, 1961.
121 “He was very fast”: Enzo Ferrari, Una vita per l’automobile (Bologna: Conti Editore, 1998), 163.
122 “He conducted himself as an ordinary guy”: Stirling Moss, interview with author, October 5, 2008.
123 “The dirtiest one there”: Elfriede Flossdorf interview, as quoted in Jörg-Thomas Födisch and Christian Dewitz, Trips: Bilder eines Lebens (Bonn: Köllen Druck+Verlag, 2000), 140.
123 “His voice did not sound”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 139.
124 “Anyone as intense as I was”: John Lamm, Ferrari: Stories from Those Who Lived the Legend (St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 2007), 35.
124 “You don’t need a mechanical knowledge”: Stirling Moss, interview with author, October 5, 2008.
124 “He is the type who does not gingerly taste the limit”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 70.
125 “Most racers I know had unhappy childhoods”: Pat Jordan, The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan (New York: Persea, 2008), 214.
7. GARIBALDINI
127 “They live in their own country”: Ken W. Purdy, The New Matadors (Newport Beach, CA: Bond, 1965), 39.
129 “Peter was remarkably good looking”: Chris Nixon, Mon Ami Mate (Hudson, WI: Transport Bookman, 1991), 186.
129 “Peter was a fantastic companion”: Jörg-Thomas Födisch et al., Trips: Erinnerungen an ein Idol (Heel: Königswinter, 1998) 54.
129 “The ship’s horn sounded”: Ibid., 54.
129 “There he stood, wondering what to do”: Wolfgang von Trips diary, as quoted in Födisch et al., Trips: Erinnerungen an ein Idol, 54.
130 “So began a wild chase”: Ibid.
130 “Every time I tried it”: Reinold Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips (Cologne: Greven Verlag, 1989), 232.
131 “It took only a few laps”: Hermann Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende (Berlin: Verlag Ullstein, 1962), 108.
131 “I laid my head back”: Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, 232.
131 “ ‘Go on, scram’ ”: Wolfgang von Trips diary, as quoted in Födisch et al., Trips: Erinnerungen an ein Idol, 35.
132 “When we came out of our air-conditioned hotel”: Wolfgang von Trips diary, as quoted in Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, 235.
132 “You must not give up”: Ibid.
132 “Sheer self-preservation led me into the pits”: Ibid.
133 “It was a blissful feeling”: Ibid.
133 “It was love at first sight”: Nixon, Mon Ami Mate, 245.
134 “He began to rejoin his racing friends”: Ibid.
134 “He just sparkled”: Louise King, interview with author, July 29, 2009.
136 “Phil came in and said”: Denise McCluggage, interview with author, May 19, 2010.
136 “It runs fine unless I do this”: Denise McCluggage, By Brooks Too Broad for Leaping (Santa Fe, NM: Fulcorte, 1994), 203.
137 “With Argentine saddles”: Wolfgang von Trips diary, as quoted in Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, 238.
137 “Ferrari didn’t like his drivers to marry”: Louise King, interview with author, July 29, 2009.
138 “Men are creatures of their passions”: “The Terrible Joys,” New Yorker, January 15, 1966.
138 “would pass other cars on the verge”: Robert Daley, Cars at Speed (St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 2007), 230.
138 “put courage and verve before cool”: Enzo Ferrari, My Terrible Joys (London: H. Hamilton, 1963), 53.
139 “You look like a waitress”: Nixon, Mon Ami Mate, 266.
140 “What a pity”: Bernard Cahier, F-Stops, Pit Stops, Laughter and Tears (Butler, MD: Autosports, 2007), 140.
141 “even with the sacrifice”: Stan Grayson, Ferrari: The Man, the Machines (New York: Dutton, 1975), 39.
141 “The owners see us drivers”: “Sundown of a Champion,” Saturday Evening Post, May 8, 1965.
141 “Without danger there wouldn’t be any point”: “Moss in High Gear,” New York Times, May 7, 1961.
142 “The very uncertainty sharpens the appetite”: Barrie Gill, Motor Racing: The Grand Prix Greats (Greenville, SC: Crescent, 1972), 19.
142 “The racers were the first ones to flee”: Pat Jordan, The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan (New York: Per
sea, 2008), 214.
143 “I’ve been described as anxious”: “A Champion’s Secret Thoughts,” Sports Illustrated, November 6, 1961.
143 “Hamlet with goggles and gloves”: “A New World Champion,” Automobile Quarterly, 1962.
143 “A racer should have”: “Too Slow, You Lose—Too Fast . . . ,” Newsweek, July 17, 1961.
144 “I had been to many races”: “Wolfgang von Trips: One of Germany’s Most Talented Driving Stars,” Vintage Racecar, May 2003.
144 “I have no lack of confidence”: “Too Slow, You Lose—Too Fast . . . ,” Newsweek, July 17, 1961.
144 “All doubts, all anxieties, all memories”: “A Champion’s Secret Thoughts,” Sports Illustrated, November 6, 1961.
145 “Happiness lies in mastery”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 43.
145 “Once the game has become life”: “Stirling Moss: A Nodding Acquaintance with Death,” Playboy, September 1962.
145 “I got more column inches”: “Sir Stirling Moss: Cars, Crashes and Crumpet: The Original British Boy-Racer,” Independent (UK), July 6, 2007.
146 “Of course, I realize this is a foolish time”: Ken Gregory, Behind the Scenes of Motor Racing (London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1960), 201.
146 “A wife would worry”: “World Title for P. Hill,” Times (London), September 11, 1961.
146 “Look at them”: Robert Daley, interview with author, July 1, 2008.
146 “Here’s 50 francs”: “Geared to Greatness,” Observer (UK), September 17, 1961.
147 “When I’m away from the track”: Jordan, The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan, 208.
147 “If he saw a girl he liked”: Louise King, interview with author, July 29, 2009.
147 “He always went off to some quiet place”: Ibid.
148 “Adventure is like religion”: “All in the Family,” Time, March 25, 1957.
148 “a Spanish James Dean”: Phil Hill, Phil Hill: A Driving Life (Phoenix: David Bull, 2010), 177.
149 “That man was so busy with women”: Nixon, Mon Ami Mate, 271.
150 “It spins so slowly”: “A Man Who Was Born 400 Years Too Late,” Life, April 9, 1956.
151 “The trouble with life”: Daley, Cars at Speed, 30.
151 “I am considered quite an expert”: “Horror in Italy,” Sports Illustrated, May 20, 1957.
152 “Unless you’re Italian”: “Enchantment of Risk,” Atlantic, October 1957.
152 “If you go into this race”: Linda Christian, Linda (New York: Dell, 1963), 235.
152 “My early death”: Robert Daley, The Cruel Sport (St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 2005), xii.
153 “beautiful and necessary”: “Count Crash,” Der Spiegel, May 18, 1960.
153 “Life has to be lived to the full”: Nixon, Mon Ami Mate, 271.
154 “I had to lean to touch him”: Christian, Linda, 239.
155 “As I prayed”: Ibid., 240.
155 “where the fastest cars”: Olivier Merlin, Fangio: Racing Driver (London: B. T. Batsford, 1961), 134.
156 “At first I drive well”: “Count Crash,” Der Spiegel, May 18, 1960.
157 “I had intended to give up”: “Horror in Italy,” Sports Illustrated, May 20, 1957.
157 “ he put his hand on the steering wheel”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 112.
158 “When Castellotti and de Portago died”: Nixon, Mon Ami Mate, 276.
8. TEN-TENTHS
162 “I had my job to do”: Reinold Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips (Cologne: Greven Verlag, 1989), 245.
163 “As long as you have an interest”: Romolo Tavoni to Wolfgang von Trips, as quoted in ibid., 249.
164 “You would go”: Stan Grayson, Ferrari: The Man, the Machines (New York: Dutton, 1975), 226.
165 “I began to feel”: William Nolan, Phil Hill: Yankee Champion (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1962), 98.
165 “You wait and we’ll see”: Denise McCluggage, interview with author, May 19, 2010.
166 “He had a terrific feel for the soul of a car”: Ibid.
166 “I would rather drive with Phil”: “Denise McCluggage Reporting . . . ,” Competition Press, November 15, 1958.
167 “Whether my open eavesdropping really made any difference”: Grayson, Ferrari: The Man, the Machines, 221.
167 “I understood now”: Ibid.
168 “During the closing stage”: Nolan, Phil Hill: Yankee Champion, 99.
168 “The turns rushed up at a far greater rate”: Ibid., 100.
168 “That was the end of my Formula 1 introduction”: Phil Hill interviewed by Bill Pollack for the Petersen Automotive Museum, November 19, 2001.
169 “He knew where every sex club was”: Bruce Kessler, interview with author, January 24, 2010.
169 “It seemed only an instant”: “Crash Kills 4 in Auto Race,” The New York Times, February 25, 1958.
170 “A matador bears only his own risk”: “Count Crash,” Der Spiegel, May 18, 1960.
170 “I think we were all glad”: Nolan, Phil Hill: Yankee Champion, 101.
171 “I’ve had a lot of bad luck”: Wolfgang von Trips to Enzo Ferrari, as quoted in Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, 265.
172 “If you want to speed”: “The Law and Mr. Phil Hill,” Los Angeles Times, March 27, 1961.
172 “We could feel the problem”: Phil Hill, Ferrari: A Champion’s View (Deerfield, IL: Dalton Watson, 2004), 122.
172 “Little by little we manipulated the errant brakes”: Ibid.
173 “The volume of rain was amazing”: Ibid.
174 “I saw you half-lying on the road”: Wolfgang von Trips to Jean Hebert, as quoted in Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, 268.
175 “That was worse than the accident”: Bruce Kessler, interview with author, January 24, 2010.
175 “I told him, ‘No, no, no’ ”: Ibid.
175 “Finally I picked up a piece”: Ibid.
176 “so high in the air”: Phil Hill, Ferrari: A Champion’s View (Deerfield, IL: Dalton Watson, 2004), 122.
176 “We had some laps in hand”: Keith Martin, Keith Martin on Collecting Ferrari (St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 2004), 5.
177 “my favorite race”: Ibid.
177 “We all said, ‘Phil, you should do that’ ”: Denise McCluggage, interview with author, May 19, 2010.
177 “At least I’d call some attention to myself”: Nolan, Phil Hill: Yankee Champion, 111.
178 “Dino would say”: Chris Nixon, Mon Ami Mate (Hudson, WI: Transport Bookman, 1991), 318.
179 “[Collins] had become unhappy”: Ibid., 320.
179 “Mike always screwed up”: Ibid., 316.
181 “Italy’s last world-class driver”: Enzo Ferrari, Una vita per l’automobile (Bologna: Conti Editore, 1998), 197.
181 “It was a disaster”: Nixon, Mon Ami Mate, 326.
181 “I told him that it was going to be a very hot day”: Ibid., 324.
182 “They looked like a gang of ants”: “Denise McCluggage Reporting . . . ,” Competition Press, August 16, 1958.
182 “A short time later Harry called”: Bernard Cahier, F-Stops, Pit Stops, Laughter and Tears (Butler, MD: Autosports, 2007), 168.
183 “If you get in that Maserati”: Phil Hill interviewed by Bill Pollack for the Petersen Automotive Museum, November 19, 2001.
184 “No one said a word”: Fiamma Breschi, Il Mio Ferrari (Milan: Mursia, 1998), 42.
184 “There was no way”: Bernard Cahier, F-Stops, Pit Stops, Laughter and Tears (Butler, MD: Autosports, 2007), 185.
184 “Here I started”: Denis Jenkinson, Fangio (London: Michael Joseph, 1973), 122.
184 “I can remember being so gauche”: Nixon, Mon Ami Mate, 326.
185 “I took his hand and squeezed it”: Breschi, Il Mio Ferrari, 42.
185 “I ran for the window”: “Mistress of the Maestro of Maranello,” Guardian (UK), January 23, 2004.
185 “For a brief moment the hate”: Breschi, Il mio Ferrari, 43.
186 “There was an ugly scene”: Cahier, F-Stops, Pit Stops, Laughter and Tears, 186.
186 “He said I would always have friends”: “Mistress of the Maestro of Maranello,” Guardian (UK), January 23, 2004.
186 “He was a constructor of cars”: Breschi, Il mio Ferrari, 45.
187 “One day I arrived at the factory”: Cahier, F-Stops, Pit Stops, Laughter and Tears, 186.
187 “was not satisfied with the information”: Breschi, Il mio Ferrari, 52.
187 “They built up such a mystique”: Grayson, Ferrari: The Man, the Machines, 222.
188 “made his mark and fame right there”: “Count Crash,” Der Spiegel, May 18, 1960.
188 “Peter was a fun-loving and happy human being”: Louise King, interview with author, July 29, 2009.
189 “He is one that won’t die”: Mike Hawthorn, Champion Year: My Battle for the Drivers’ World Title (London: Aston, 1959), 147.
190 “I had no idea what had happened”: Nixon, Mon Ami Mate, 335.
190 “Mike came back to the pits”: Louise King, interview with author, July 29, 2009.
191 “I said that’s enough”: Ibid.
191 “The doctor pulled back the sheet”: Nixon, Mon Ami Mate, 336.
192 “an understood but unacknowledged waiting”: Ed McDonough, Peter Collins: All About the Boy (Coventry, UK: Mercian, 2008), 312.
192 “I do remember sitting”: Denise McCluggage, By Brooks Too Broad for Leaping (Santa Fe, NM: Fulcorte, 1994) 203.
192 “I had to throw the car sideways”: Nixon, Mon Ami Mate, 336.
193 “A number of motor sport experts”: “Peter Collins: For What?” Die Welt, August 5, 1958.
193 “almost every big-time driver”: Ibid.
193 “This is not a sport”: “After Collins, There Are Only Seven,” Die Welt, August 9, 1958.
194 “I hope that your article helps”: Ibid.
194 “That we race cannot be explained”: “Therefore I Must Race On!” Bild, August 28, 1958.
195 “Ferrari wept at my bedside”: Nixon, Mon Ami Mate, 339.
196 “The Vanwalls are built really high”: Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, 269.
197 “Von Trips must have been totally crazy”: “Count Crash,” Der Spiegel, May 18, 1960.
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