Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips
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| Born |
4 May 1928 Cologne, Germany |
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| Died | 10 September 1961 (aged 33) Monza, Italy |
| 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) was a German racing driver. He was the son of a noble Rhineland family.
Von Trips was born in Cologne, Germany.
Von Trips 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. 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 102.21 m.p.h. over 142 miles. He won the Targa Florio, 10-lap 448 mile race, in May 1961. Von Trips achieved an average speed of 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.
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