197 “I felt something like a funny bone”: Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, 269.
197 “What are you thinking?”: Helmut Mauser to Wolfgang von Trips, in ibid., 270.
197 “You have the ability to love”: A girlfriend to Wolfgang von Trips, as quoted in ibid., 271.
198 “I’m not amused”: “Count Crash,” Der Spiegel, May 18, 1960.
201 “We drivers of the Scuderia family”: Wolfgang von Trips to Enzo Ferrari, 1959, as quoted in Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, 278.
203 “The racetrack had its own aristocracy”: Taki Theodoracopulos, interview with author, February 24, 2010.
203 “The racer is happier, luckier”: “Count Crash,” Der Spiegel, May 18, 1960.
204 “If your daredevil spirit knows no end”: Huschke von Hanstein, as quoted in Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, 274.
204 “The young ladies can rest assured”: “Count Crash,” Der Spiegel, May 18, 1960.
204 “We’ve seen a lot of great moments”: Ibid.
205 “Only those who do not move”: “Too Slow, You Lose—Too Fast . . . ,” Newsweek, July 17, 1961.
206 “We abandoned this man to his despair”: Richard Williams, Enzo Ferrari (London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2001), 213.
206 “I remain best of friends”: Wolfgang von Trips responding to a fan letter, as quoted in Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, 302.
207 “Wolfgang was once an erratic driver”: Hermann Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende (Berlin: Verlag Ullstein, 1962), 118, citing UK journalist Louis Stanley.
9. BIRTH OF THE SHARKNOSE
209 “Speed is the keynote of our age”: “Racing Is a Vice,” Sports Illustrated, May 13, 1957.
211 “It’s always been the ox”: Richard Williams, Enzo Ferrari (London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2001), 96.
212 “He was unwilling for us to try”: Oscar Orefici, Carlo Chiti: Roaring Sinfonia (Milan: Giorgio NADA, 2003), 28.
213 “structure is slow and cumbersome”: “Count Crash,” Der Spiegel, May 18, 1960.
213 “Who do you think you are”: Ibid.
214 “Ferrari had agreed to try”: Orefici, Carlo Chiti: Roaring Sinfonia, 36.
215 “I’m always afraid when I race”: “Phil Hill and the Coast Crowd,” Time, March 16, 1959.
215 “Oh, I’m sorry”: “The Other Hill,” Time, September 28, 1962.
216 “I’m nobody”: Robert Daley, Cars at Speed (St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 2007) 230.
216 “The tension was excruciating”: Stan Grayson, Ferrari: The Man, the Machines (New York: Dutton, 1975), 230.
10. 1961
219 “Guess where I’ve been”: Reinold Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips (Cologne, Greven Verlag, 1989), 337.
220 “I’ve just unpacked your Christmas present”: Wolfgang von Trips to Huschke von Hanstein, 1961, as quoted in Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, 337.
221 “This is Hill’s year”: “Too Slow, You Lose—Too Fast . . . ,” Newsweek, July 17, 1961.
222 “There was always an uncomfortable feeling”: Ed McDonough, Ferrari 156 Sharknose (Coventry, UK: Mercian, 2007), 5.
222 “I like to feel the odds are against me”: “Without Danger, What’s the Point?” New York Times, May 7, 1961.
223 “The mechanic said”: Stirling Moss, interview with author, October 25, 2008.
223 “It gave me great pleasure”: Ibid.
223 “similar to seeing which is quickest”: Doug Nye, The Autocourse History of the Grand Prix Car, 1945-65 (St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 1993), 119.
224 “To go flat-out through a bend”: Stirling Moss, All but My Life (New York: Dutton, 1963), 65.
225 “It was a typical piece of Ferrari meddling”: Oscar Orefici, Carlo Chiti: Roaring Sinfonia (Milan: Giorgio NADA, 2003), 36.
227 “What I remember about that race”: John Lamm, Ferrari: Stories from Those Who Lived the Legend (St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 2007), 134.
227 “It was rather like a fighter plane”: “XIX Grand Prix of Monaco: What a Race!” Motor Sport, June 1961.
227 “Richie was going much faster”: Bud Palmer, “Grand Prix de Monaco,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf5gZbrRe_E&NR=1.
227 “It’s much easier to chase a man”: Ibid.
228 “The last few laps I stopped watching”: Moss, All but My Life, 66.
228 “At Monaco in 1961”: Ibid., 65.
229 “Until I saw the checkered flag”: Bud Palmer, “Grand Prix de Monaco,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf5gZbrRe_E&NR=1.
229 “my greatest drive”: Stirling Moss, Stirling Moss: My Cars, My Career (Wellingborough, UK: P. Stephens, 1987), 240.
229 “Embracing him, it seemed to me”: Franco Gozzi, Memoirs of Enzo Ferrari’s Lieutenant (Milano: Giorgi Nada, 2002), 71.
230 “No, not even worth discussing”: Orefici, Carlo Chiti: Roaring Sinfonia, 39.
230 “Do you as you like then”: “Confidential,” Motor Racing, July 1961.
231 “calm his palpitating heart”: Ibid.
231 “Push that thing away”: William Nolan, Phil Hill: Yankee Champion (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1962), 181.
231 “all arms and elbows”: Lamm, Ferrari: Stories from Those Who Lived the Legend, 134.
231 “I was going around oversteering”: Tim Considine, American Grand Prix Racing (St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 1997), 86.
232 “They just didn’t want us ripping each other up”: Ibid., 87.
232 “It was a big day for him”: Hermann Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende (Berlin: Verlag Ullstein, 1962), 19.
233 “Trips wanted it very much”: Nolan, Phil Hill: Yankee Champion, 189.
234 “more of a joke than a race”: “Hill Scores in Belgian Grand Prix,” New York Times, June 19, 1961.
234 “a guilty surge of pleasure”: Pat Jordan, The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan (New York: Persea, 2008), 207.
234 “God, my car was clearly superior”: Considine, American Grand Prix Racing, 88.
234 “I didn’t really want to”: Jordan, The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan, 207.
234 “take it around”: Considine, American Grand Prix Racing, 89.
235 “I really let it all hang out”: Jordan, The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan, 208.
236 “driving on a spill of ball bearings”: Stan Grayson, Ferrari: The Man, the Machines (New York: Dutton, 1975), 203.
236 “I was drinking blood for about five laps”: Denise McCluggage, By Brooks Too Broad for Leaping (Santa Fe, NM: Fulcorte, 1994), 120.
237 “My golden opportunity”: Grayson, Ferrari: The Man, the Machines, 230.
240 “A few years earlier”: Ibid., 231.
240 “Sometimes I lost my Ferrari”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 63–70.
241 “Suddenly I saw the eyes”: Ibid.
241 “the highest test, the high wire”: Ibid.
242 “As I had feared”: “A Champion’s Secret Thoughts,” Sports Illustrated, November 6, 1961.
242 “All year long it was him or me”: “Phil Hill: Formula One Racing Driver Who Won the 1961 World Title,” Independent (UK), August 30, 2008.
243 “I was very aware of staying within my limits”: Phil Hill, Phil Hill: A Driving Life (Phoenix: David Bull, 2010), 183.
243 “passed around the officers’ club”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 9–16.
243 “There was a green splash of color in the pits”: Ibid.
244 “About 30 seconds later”: Ibid.
245 “I guessed as much”: Xavier Chimitz et al., Grand Prix Racers: Portraits of Speed (Minneapolis: Motorbooks International, 2008) 14.
245 “I noticed that I had slowly but surely fallen”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 18–29.
245 “sometimes it’s just too much”: Ibid.
246 “Von Trips is to win here”: “Hill Rejects ‘Orders’ to Lose,” New York Times, August 6, 1961.
246 “Ferrari can make all
the decisions he wants to”: Ibid.
247 “starry-eyedand trembling”: McDonough, Ferrari 156 Sharknose, 92.
247 “freak”: Ibid.
247 “Out of the car he seems colder”: “Hill Rejects ‘Orders’ to Lose,” New York Times, August 6, 1961.
247 “First, the transmission is bad”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 9–16.
247 “If the engine cooperates”: Ibid.
247 “Now I know that under the same conditions”: Ibid.
248 “If they only knew how tired I am”: Elfriede Flossdorf interview, as quoted in Jörg-Thomas Födisch and Christian Dewitz, Trips: Bilder eines Lebens (Bonn: Köllen Druck+Verlag, 2000), 137.
248 “I slept three feet above the manure pile”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 9–16.
248 “Now we’ll start together”: Ibid.
249 “There were so many people around”: Ibid., 39. 249 “The calm comes over me”: Ibid., 30.
249 “Doesn’t it make a lovely noise?”: “German Grand Prix,” Autosport, August 19, 1961.
250 “smiling happily to themselves”: “XXIII German Grand Prix: Moss the ‘Ring-Meister,’ ” Motor Sport, September 1961.
250 “Suddenly everything was wonderfully simple”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 9–16.
251 “Seeing Moss is one thing”: “XXIII German Grand Prix: Moss the ‘Ring-Meister,’ ” Motor Sport, September 1961.
251 “When Hill went past me”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 9–16.
252 “We drove for a little while”: Ibid.
252 “We were both all over the road”: Lamm, Ferrari: Stories from Those Who Lived the Legend 136.
252 “It was a barrage of cameras”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 42–50.
253 “I screwed it up”: McDonough, Ferrari 156 Sharknose, 96.
II. PISTA MAGICA
256 “A mountain stream flows”: Reinold Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips (Bonn: Greven Verlag, 1989), 395.
257 “I feel like a thousand eyes are on me”: Hermann Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende (Berlin: Verlag Ullstein, 1962), 47.
258 “If I drive fast, I’m so calm afterwards”: Ibid., 139–140.
258 “Every driver has a place deep inside”: “Death in Auto Racing: It’s Predictable,” New York Times, April 8, 1968.
258 “This could all end tomorrow”: Robert Daley, interview with author, July 1, 2008.
259 “I love motor racing”: William Nolan, Phil Hill: Yankee Champion (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1962), 202.
259 “Worse yet, nobody would believe me”: John Lamm, Ferrari: Stories from Those Who Lived the Legend (St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 2007), 137.
260 “Everything’s gone wrong with my car”: “Last Race for Count Crash,” Sports Illustrated, September 18, 1961.
260 “Are you sure there isn’t something wrong with your foot?”: Tim Considine, American Grand Prix Racing (St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 1997), 94.
260 “Just change the damn engine”: Ibid., 95.
261 “We may be teammates”: “Last Race for Count Crash,” Sports Illustrated, September 18, 1961.
261 “a stumble to it”: Considine, American Grand Prix Racing, 95.
262 “shifted sideways”: “Von Trips; II Fans Killed,” Los Angeles Times, September II,1961.
263 “I didn’t really want to go over”: Eric Dymock, Jim Clark: Racing Legend (St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 2003), 138.
264 “Ladies and gentlemen, dear listeners”: Louis, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, 43.
264 “He lay there”: Jörg-Thomas Födisch and Christian Dewitz, Trips: Bilder eines Lebens (Bonn: Köllen Druck+Verlag, 2000), 328.
265 “We have lost”: Brock Yates, Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine (New York: Doubleday, 1991), 231.
266 “a warming relief”: Ibid.
266 “He muttered something”: Ibid.
266 “At the risk of seeming to be callous”: “A Champion’s Secret Thoughts,” Sports Illustrated, November 6, 1961.
266 “He knows that his victory has been so submerged”: “Hill Finds Taste of Auto Racing Victory Bitter,” New York Times, September 12, 1961.
267 “I bow my head before him”: “12 Killed in Italian Car Race,” International Herald Tribune, September 12, 1961.
267 “Easily and quickly he died”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 139.
267 “There was a certain amount of guilt”: “The Sad Hero,” Motor Sport, September 2001.
267 “it would be criminal to allow”: “The Accident of the GP of Monza,” Le Figaro, September 12, 1961.
268 “fatigued and hollow-eyed”: Yates, Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine, 233.
268 “It was an emotional moment”: Ibid.
269 “For all the Germans”: Nigel Roebuck, Chasing the Title: Fifty Years of Formula 1 (Sparkford, UK: Haynes, 2000), 54.
269 “I have never experienced anything”: “A Champion’s Secret Thoughts,” Sports Illustrated, November 6, 1961.
270 “About you, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips”: Harster, Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende, 141.
270 “I had felt it before”: “A Champion’s Secret Thoughts,” Sports Illustrated, November 6, 1961.
270 “I sensed, as we spoke”: Ibid.
271 “He was slipping home”: “The Thoughtful Champion,” Autoweek, August 19, 1991.
271 “I was really sick about that”: “The Sad Hero,” Motor Sport, September, 2001.
271 “Not at all”: Albert R. Bochroch, Americans at Le Mans (Tucson: Aztex, 1976), 82.
272 “Perhaps I am oversensitive”: “A Champion’s Secret Thoughts,” Sports Illustrated, November 6, 1961.
EPILOGUE
273 “I don’t know”: Phil Hill, Phil Hill: A Driving Life (Phoenix: David Bull, 2010) 125.
274 “If this is how you feel”: Mattijs Diepraam and Felix Muelas, “Angry at Laura,” http://www.forix.com/8w/ats.html.
275 “He said, ‘I’ll make it’ ”: Stirling Moss, interview with author, October 25, 2008.
275 “What are you going to do?”: “A Bloody Go,” Time, May 4, 1962.
275 “He’s pushing it”: Ibid.
276 “Connie, vous étes une belle fille”: Ibid.
276 “We must inevitably replace it”: Enzo Ferrari, My Terrible Joys (London: H. Hamilton, 1963), 42.
277 “It will be a better car some day”: “Ferrari: Race Cars Are His Life,” New York Times, August 19, 1962.
277 “I knew where I was psychologically”: Brock Yates, Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine (New York: Doubleday, 1991), 234.
277 “Your great champion”: “No Regrets,” Motor Sport, October 1994.
278 “There comes a time”: “Sundown of a Champion,” Saturday Evening Post, May 8, 1965.
278 “I had a premonition”: “The Winner Who Walked Away,” Sports Illustrated, March 24, 1976.
280 “Thank you heaven”: “Obituaries: Phil Hill,” Telegraph (UK), September 4, 2008.
280 “They were mostly these big truck-driver types”: “The Winner Who Walked Away,” Sports Illustrated, March 22, 1976.
280 “When he married Alma”: Bruce Kessler, interview with author, January 24, 2010.
281 “He was very, very strange that night”: Alma Hill, interview with author, January 26, 2010.
Index
Page numbers of photographs appear in italics.
Albert, Michele, Ref1
Alfa Romeo, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Scuderia Ferrari and, Ref1
Allard automobile, Ref1
Allison, Cliff, Ref1
Argentine Grand Prix, Ref1
Ascari, Alberto, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12
Ascari, Antonio, Ref1, Ref2
Aston Martin
DB3, Ref1
Moss and, Ref1
Austin-Healey,
Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Austrian Grand Prix (1964), Ref1
Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS), Ref1
Auto Union, Ref1
Baghetti, Giancarlo, Ref1
Bahamas, Ref1
Ballard, J. G., Ref1
Baracca, Count Enrico, Ref1
Baracca, Countess Paolina, Ref1
Baracca, Francesco, Ref1
Behra, Jean, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Beinhorn, Elly, Ref1
Belgian Grand Prix
1960, Ref1
1961, Ref1
Belgium, Ref1. See also Gendebien, Olivier
Bergman, Ingrid, Ref1, Ref2
Bernartz, Hans-Willi, Ref1
Bernhard, Prince of the Netherlands, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Beverly, Massachusetts, Ref1
Beyl, Helmut, Ref1
Bonetto, Felice, Ref1
Bonnier, Joakim, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Brabham, Jack, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
1961 German Grand Prix, Ref1
Bracco, Giovanni, Ref1, Ref2
Breeze, Bill, Ref1
Breschi, Fiamma, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
British Grand Prix, Ref1
1958, Ref1, Ref2
1961, Ref1, Ref2
British Racing Motors (BRM), Ref1, Ref2
Brooks, Tony, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Brousselet, Jean-Marie, Ref1
Buenos Aires
1954, Ref1
1956, Ref1, Ref2
1958 season, Ref1
Temporada, Ref1
Cahier, Bernard, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
Cahier, Joan, Ref1
Caracciola, Rudolf, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Carrell Gardens, California, Ref1
Carrera Panamericana, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
1951, Ref1
1952, Ref1
1953, Ref1, Ref2
1954, Ref1
American vs. European cars in, Ref1
fatalities, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
inaugural race, Ref1
risks of, Ref1, Ref2
spectator casualties, Ref1
Cars at Speed (Daley), Ref1
Castellotti, Eugenio, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9
Castro, Fidel, Ref1
Chapman, Colin, Ref1
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