Wolfgang von Trips, Monza 1961 (extended footage)

[mylittlemyphone]

my god what a fatal accident ! all victims, rest in peace !

[matthewkosmic]

Oh

[davieheartattack]

Sad times when safety comes last in a sport. Glad things have changed now

[LloydVanBuren]

Bill Burr.

[asconese]

Graf Berghe von Trips...ich war noch jung...und doch - seither mag ich keine Rennen...Alle Opfer sind seltsam umsonst. Was erreichen die Menschen damit? Ausser einer dominanten Hintermannschaft verdient keiner was dabei...auch wenn zeitweilig Millionen im Spiel sind...aber kauf mal ein Leben zurück!

[JazzKeyboardist1]

you can call these things accidents, but so is getting shot while playing russian roulette,,lol

[JazzKeyboardist1]

jim clarks wheels touched von trips spinning out van traps, the spectators were as smart as yankee general sedgwick saying, those rebels could not hit an elephant at this distance,,,, before they killed him,

[Guireles2007]

Just horrible. The other side of the coin to this beautiful sport.

[flipsidedogchop]

RIP to all

Unfortunately, this looks like a racing accident. It was unjustified that Jim Clark was victimised.

[samyr1997]

this video shows how poor safety was but the most stupid thing that i think is that they didnt stop the race so they can take out the wrecked car and wolgang

[mailmeonline]

@samyr1997 i think that at the time they didn''t think it was necessary because the track was over 10ks long, but i do agree with you

[AdyMiles]

all for entertainment sport. what a waste

[fasfsfetat]

@AdyMiles That wasn't for entertainment. Wolfgang von Trips, along with other drivers, lived for motor racing and you can be certain he was aware of the dangers. He raced because he loved it and was passionate about it, not to entertain crowds.

[jesemus33]

the guy was ejected but then smashed by his car and he fly to the other side of the road

[ramfeild66]

@jesemus33 Actually, I thought that but at 2.26 you can see the debris that looked like the driver on the roadside (from afar it looked like he had an arm in the air which would be improbable). I think Von Trip was ejected on the hill and actually stayed on that side of the track. I believe it's his body being collected at 2.33. I imagine after he was ejected he was crushed by his car and he slid down the bank...

[MagicTimeVideos]

@ramfeild66

negative. von trip is laying on the other side of the road, face down at 2:29 (white suit) between a piece of the car and a race official walking away from the camera

[ramfeild66]

@MagicTimeVideos Yes, but he still on the side of the road on which he crashed, those spectators at 2.29 are clearly not situated on the hillbank where Von Trips crashed. There are spectators on both sides of the track, you can see that in the initial long shots. Hence, like I said Von Trips was not ejected across the track, he was thrown from his car the side he crashed and remained on that side, probably crushed by his own car thus stopping any momentum his body carried.

[MagicTimeVideos]

@ramfeild66

?

at 2:29 there are no spectators in the shot. just von trip on the ground and a race official running away from the body to flag other cars.

you know, it really doesn't matter to me... i just thought i was doing you a favor by pointing it out.

[ramfeild66]

@MagicTimeVideos Yes, but he still on the side of the road on which he crashed, those spectators at 2.29 are clearly not situated on the hillbank where Von Trips crashed. There are spectators on both sides of the track, you can see that in the initial long shots. Hence, like I said Von Trips was not ejected across the track, he was thrown from his car the side he crashed and remained on that side, probably crushed by his own car thus stopping any momentum his body carried.

[Diodorus79]

Wow the way that poor driver ended up flying across the track.....R.I.P. Wolfgang. Them spectators too. uf!! racing was, is, and never'll be safe.

[tomboy287]

people were styll standing dere bare casual like nothing had happened

[merkury06]

This was a horrible tragedy. But people must have been different then. There had been many similar incidents in the fifties were fans were killed by out of control race cars. But yet they still crowd around the track and no one put up any fences or guard rails.

I think people were much more fatalistic back then. No one even tried to make things safe.

[2007Colonial]

It is amazing that Jim Clark survived the accident, the roll bars in 61' were not three point and not required to pass a roll over test, incredable! If they were Trips may have survivied the crushing head injuries he died from? He also went into the trees in 58' in a Dino 246 and survived that one, so sad!

[dukestt]

There has just been a documentary about F1 in the early years and about the lack of safety. It starts with this accident.

If you search for BBC iplayer, then for The Killer Years you should find it. Its a sad reflection on the safety of F1.

[Cassnet]

in those days people did not know any better...although the safety is this good today b/c of the disasters they happened manny years ago.

[roydrink]

Wasn't Jochen Rindt killed at the same corner in 1970?

[MrPifta]

@roydrink you're right. In the Parabolica corner after this straight.

[indyracingnut]

As tragic as this was, this could have easily had been SO much worse. It's really a miracle that the spinning car didn't travel further into the crowd before going back toward the track. If that had happened...this would have killed over 100 people. Or more.

[wahaya2]

You don't hear it mentioned much because so many people did die in that crash, but if you look at the point where von Trips' car is airborne and spinning, you see that Clark, whose car was inches below that sliding down the banking, was very lucky not to also have been badly hurt.

[deggis4]

@borjomiwater The difference comes from if all of the ones that died later in the hospital are included in the total casualty count. 12 died immediately, 3 more at the hospital the following day and 1 died five days later = 16 in total. If you check the Wikipedia article more closely, the source link is the same Motorsport Memorial site that I have as the source in the video description.

[flipsidedogchop]

i dont think schumacher woulda won 7WDC had he been racing in the 60's

[borjomiwater]

His car became airborne and crashed into a side barrier, fatally throwing von Trips from the car, and killing fifteen spectators.

see at:

wiki/Wolfgang_von_Trips

[BaronBoy100]

@SynysterToken Yes. This is the first video I have seen that actually shows the events just before the crash. It looks like Von Tripps and Clark rubbed wheels in the braking area for the Parabolica and both spun to the left. Von Tripps, unfortunately spun upwards into the crowd before crashing horizontally back onto the track. It looked as though the car was spinning so rapidly that he was thrown from the cockpit.

[xBaphometHx]

0:16 even more.

[xBaphometHx]

0:05 Schumacher has a strong ressemblance with him.

[cocobearbear]

More like street racing to me.

[shazmeister2005]

@SynysterToken yes, they used the combined road and banking circuit for this race. The banking was never used much after this race despite the fact it had nothing to do with this accident

[BaronBoy100]

@shazmeister2005 I might be wrong but I thought the last time the banking was used was 1957 or 58 or thereabouts. I cannot recall it being used in 1959 which is the year Jack Brabham won his first world championship.

[shazmeister2005]

@BaronBoy100 they didnt use it every year I dont think, but it was definatly being used for this race. They never used it for F1 after this despite the fact that this crash was at the paribollica. The drivers didnt like it anyway as it was so bumpy. I think they continued using it for other racing categories but stopped using it completely by the late 60s

[BaronBoy100]

@shazmeister2005 You may well be right about its use. I know the drivers hated it with a vengeance because it was so rough and the suspension would be bottomed out due to the download and the cars would be nearly unmanageable on the bumps.

[balzenhazelnut]

hard to believe wolfgang was alive until his body hit the pavement after he got thrown out

[ImprovedMexican]

Poor chap. Had he won, he would have won the world championship.

[albferraz]

This happened at the exact same place of Jochen Rindt´s fatal crash... RIP to both!

[lamp2k06]

they don't even TRY to run away...... :-/

[SoilentGr33n]

That's pretty bad.

[deggis4]

@ratzinator1 Not necessarily stupidity. Safety was just simply so overlooked in those days.

[PYLrulz1984]

@deggis4

Yeah, even after LeMans 6 years before this, Safety at best, was considered an afterthought, and at worst, considered for cowards and slowpokes.

[sychanz]

With all the money and riches frm the racing organizer of the old days, they cant even think of the safety of the tracks and crowds even marshall safety.. all they can think is the glamor and pussies and making more money for themself.. these make me sad/mad/angry..

[IsaacBickerstaffEsq]

"With all the money and riches frm the racing organizer of the old days . . ."

You must be thinking about a different old days than the ones I remember.

[daytonafan8]

That was in one word, Violent.

[AfflictionFTW]

He seemed to be a pretty tall guy.

He was about to become the first german F1 world champion that year.

The Schumacher brothers made their first karting laps onto a track established by him.

[Soprano313]

Thats was a pretty horrible accident. F1 has drastically changed as far as safety though in the present day.

[TiagoWakabayashi]

1:11 i've heard a scream O_O'

[TachyonDriver]

Why was the banked part of Monza closed after this grand Prix? The accident did not happen on the banked oval....

[pood57]

The F1 cars of the early 60's were very fragile. They could not stand the beating of the rough cement surface of the banking. The banking was used for other races until late in the sixties, however.

[Hasseta]

@TachyonDriver that race used the oval track too? was the last time?

[EASYTIGER10]

When you look at cars from this era, and more so as you go further back, the disregard for basic safety seems shocking.

[fearbeforefearbefore]

That was part of the appeal.

[ccwfilm]

This film is available in full length for download, in german

just google "trips onlinefilm"

best regards, the director

[kratog]

RIP the people killed on accident.

[terga1]

...that got me saying oh my god. And i don't do that often since i'm muslim

[CDHIgnorance]

Brutal.

[Tobiiimnrw]

1:46 u can see him fly out of his wrecked car!!

[Random90219]

"We were about 100 metres from the beginning of the curve. Von Trips was running close to the inside of the track. I was closely following him, keeping near the outside. At one point Von Trips shifted sideways so that my front wheels collided with his back wheels. Von Trips' car spun twice and went into the guardrail along the inside of the track. Then it bounced back, struck my own car and bounced down into the crowd."

Jim Clark on the accident.

[f3wbs]

and then a few years later jim clark dies. racing really is sad =(

[curradinu]

I have been to that particular spot attending a race. It is a bit different now.

[tazio2]

well they didn't stop the 1955 le mans 24hr. when almost 100 people were killed in one incident either

[maestroaster]

the racing in 50's and 60's was so.

[stillavril]

It was a dangerous game then.

Campaigning by Jackie Stewart and others ensured that fatal accidents are now almost unknown in recent years.

[Formula1MotorRacing]

Absolutely. It winds me up when people say Modern racing is too safe. It can never be "too" safe.

[maestroaster]

Yes when you ram with 300 agains a wall nothing can safe you.

But the raacing nowheredays is much safer than earlier, which is much better that it's safer.

[MurphyMonster]

@Formula1MotorRacing  Well, i think people like the fact that guys were putting their lives on the line by driving deathtraps at 170mph. It kind of takes away the feeling of what racing is a little

[westsyde1061]

@Formula1MotorRacing I concur.......No such thing as "too safe". I look at the history of F1 and as someone already posted, safety was just overlooked. I saw the movie "Grand Prix" at a crappy drive-in when I was a kid in 1977. I was 5 and I have loved the sport since. I don't remember much of the movie except the sounds of the engines and the crashes which when compared to modern F1 could have been avoided with proper safety protocols

[erasetoimprove]

@Formula1MotorRacing Anybody who says modern racing is "too safe" should be sent to a track and a corner where a race car is most likely to run them over. As safe as modern racing is today in major countries - there is actually still race tracks as dangerous for spectators, or even more so - than this track was. There's just not as many people with the money for computers and internet in those countries to upload the videos. 1,100 spectator deaths worldwide in 2008 alone according to AP.

[slacktiago]

@Formula1MotorRacing , I totally agree. In 2007, Coulthard almost beheaded Wurz.

[ThaWolf24]

@Formula1MotorRacing Im very glad that we don't have to watch to any casualties in the F1 these days..

[Mongoose1358]

I didn't find it hard to watch, there aren't any explicit images. (no doubt i will be thumbs downed and hurled insults at for this comment)

[WillHapgood2]

@Mongoose1358 You do know that Von Trips is hurled from his car right?

[baishengren]

@Mongoose1358 I agree, though I think the Tom Pryce accident shouldn't be on youtube.

[mercsmania]

@baishengren the pryce one doesn't upset me that much, i can't watch the williamson death at zandvoort without wanting to cry. it's the other driver's reaction and the way no one else is doing a thing that upsets me. mistakes happen (i mean the fans are seperated from the track by a skipping rope in this video FFS!!!) but when no one seems to care when something can be done, that's worse IMHO

[EPR89]

This is really hard to watch.

[pestarzt]

i can't believe they filmed the dead people like this. it would be totally impossible to show these pictures in national television nowadays. at least in germany.

[AlexDIIM]

They wouldn't be broadcasted in Italy too and no need to wonder why. Try to figure out how a child may feel after watching a video like this one.

Rip Wolfgang

[pedowife4kids]

@AlexDIIM Children can better manage the view of such cruelty than you might believe. I eyewitnessed in 1965 with my little son a horrble car accident in which a woman was smashed into pieces by a truck. I told him - he was five years old then - that he only had an nightmare dream.

[WBA1965]

I've head and read about this partivular crash. This was another time. Safety was not the first issue on the agenda. Its just kind of hard to watch, if you know what I mean....

[morailfan]

They didn't even stop the race. Wow

[YeefeiMr]

R.I.P.

[mhy249]

is it true even if von tripps had lived,he was due on a plane after this race ,it crashed and no one survived.

[serchflores]

True, but he would have died as F1 World Champion. Rest in Peace Wolfgang

[ysgol3]

Very interesting to see the great Stirling embracing von Trips, presumably wishing him well, at 0.20.

[apubtg]

14 people lost their lives in this tragic accident. The number is cited by the official Formula 1 website.

[deggis4]

where there? I found the race results, but there's no other historiografia.

[MarcoFiremarshall]

@deggis4 Monza 1961

[deggis4]

@MarcoFiremarshall Umm, yes, but I can only see the race results.

[ysgol3]

Intersting to see how lucky Jim Clark was to sort of slide off the fence and then be missed by von Trips's car. I agree this was unfortunately all von Trips's fault, just a tragic mistake. Some have said Ricardo Rodriguez, Pedro's brother who was killed soon afterwards was also somehow to blame, I can't see that at all.

[bonycnt9]

R.I.P

[ManuelKobe]

wrong!

9 were killed, 5 other died later in the hospital.

and believe me, I'm from austria and I speak german

[deggis4]

That seems to conflict the information on motorsportmemorial(dot)org (see full link in the video description).

That website has even all the casualties' names listed. I'd rather believe that than this video. Sorry.

[scfog90]

@deggis4 The Video says "9 People were immediately killed and 5 died later in hospital". Und du kannst mir vertrauen, weil ich Deutsch spreche: You can trust me: neun=nine, fünf=five!! I would say your link is wrong and the narrator is right!

[deggis4]

@scfog90 I don't doubt your translations skills but I have addressed this and I simply trust the link more. If you check the link in the end of page there is quite long list of sources including actual books and newspapers, so I think it is less probable that the information is false.

[360GodF1]

this is a really really sad to see

[spinsandneedles]

You would think after Le Mans '55 when many more spectators were killed, that the track owners would have made bigger improvements.

Though I am sure that spectators wanted to be as close to the drivers as possible.

[eferefer]

It looks like the crosses in cemetery - that said von Trips to one mechanic during the training about trees in forest by the Monza cirucuit.

[McLarenMercedes]

With this accident Phil Hill lost his biggest threat to the 1961 title. We will never know if Phil Hill would have won it had Von Trips not died.

Phil Hill passed away 3 days ago aged 81.

[roadamerica30]

and now Phil Hill died the other day. this tragic event propelled him to world champion that year. although it made him world famous, it haunted him to the end. never was the same after this. god bless hill, von trips, clark and all other racing heroes past, present and future.

[Troylito]

this accident was clearly the fault of Von Trips. He moved over one Clark who could have done nothing to prevent a collision but to slam on his brakes, or to have moved over into the grass area to prevent Von Trips from colliding with him. He had no time to react. There is a Clark quote on Von Trips Wikipedia page that states that Vop Trips car hit the inside guard rail, then the outer after hitting Clarks car. I don't see that. All I see is contact made, then the Ferrari veering off.

[dr400kmh]

the race continued...wtf!?!

[zaction]

OMG! That was really bad.. all those spectators too.. how many of them were killed? I am so glad the sport is much safer now...

[nemoxardas]

15 killed , 60 injured

[zaction]

Thanks for the info. Really sad. I guess the only worse accident was the 55' Lemans? 80+.

[byggxx]

wrong! 9 were killed and 5 injured

[DSMTV]

NO!!!

9 killed, 5 injured! learn how to speak german!!

[deggis4]

I didn't get that casualty number from this video. I don't understand German.

[MacTobey]

they talk about the pressure that was put on him before the race and that he had to win the championship. and then theres a description of the accident (von trips died of a broken neck and 14 spectators died as well)

[Stealthbong]

Very thought-provoking footage. Wish I could understand the commentary.

[geedog33]

didn't know this footage existed.... superb footage of a terrible day in formula 1

[indigoblue555]

At 1,11 - did Von Trips collide with smo ?

[RJM1983]

Jim Clark

[whatisabercowich]

Clark was really sad after this, I feel sorry for him.

[firdausRZK]

1 of horrible crash in motorsport..make me sad :(

[alpanian]

According to the commentator, the race continued espite the deaths!! Can you believe it??

[ManuelKobe]

yes, and nothing has changed until yet

if a driver dies in a crash, the race will be continued and after the race the whole world gets notice that someone died

it's not sport anymore, it's only business!

and that makes me really angry!

[MonacoLager1]

I agree. They should stop a race if someone is killed. When Senna had his fatal accident, it was a law in Italy to stop a race when a driver is killed. Yet, did they stop the race? No.

[Rosssmith21]

What would make you more angry is that Ratzenburger's death the day before meant the FIA and FOA were breaking the law by holding the race on Sunday. Therefore Senna needn't have died at all.

Then again, you could argue that Ratzenburger's and Senna's legacy is that noone has been killed since..

[10glenn10]

Technically you are right, but the FIA got around it by claiming that both drivers did not die at the circuit - as this is what the law states =( Hence, they actually did nothing wrong by continuing on such a terrible weekend.

[D4mo84]

Yep very true, but actually it was the circuit officials who didn't declare the drivers dead at the time of each accident.

To be fair, they weren't.. but the law needs changing.

[indigoblue555]

to ManuelKobe- correctly you say it's not sport anymore.So it is since a long time as the genuine sportmen behaviour has been fading away.More and more it got into a business.Obv.I do emotionally look at tragic events(I hate being harsh) but I just would tell those who joyin dangerous sports:beware that the show must go on =

Honestly I observe that at the same time safety level overall has been highly improved

in car racing and deadly events are fortunat. getting rarer and rarer.

Greetings=

[woodymcruk]

The Ferrari goes sideways, hit the Lotus and goes over the grass that surrounds the pavement at unabated speed. Traveling at some forty-five degrees with the track, the Ferrari climbs the left embankment and rolls around its longer axis - so fast that the car does not touch ground. Von Trips, not wearing safety belts, is thrown from the Ferrari in its first roll; like a rag doll, his body bounces on the ground until it finally lays lifeless by the left edge of the track. horrific

[woodymcruk]

The toll of the accident is the worst of the history of the Formula 1 Championship: besides Wolfgang von Trips, eleven spectators were instantly killed (the Italian Augusto Camillo Valleise, Franca Duguet, Luigi Motta, Luigi Fassi, Laura Zorzi, Albino Albertini, Paolo Perazzone, Mario Brambilla, Giuseppina Lenti and Claudia Polognoli and the Swiss Franz Waldvogel), and many were seriously injured.another 3 died on 15th

[KevinCali24]

Thanks for your response. That truly is horrible. Thankfully track safety is much better now.

[KevinCali24]

How many civilians died?! Horrible.

[CodySeattle]

Trips is usually held responsible; he had passed Clark and thought he had left him behind, so he didn't maintain his line setting up for the curve, and touched Clark's wheel.

[Troylito]

This accident wasn't Clarks fault at all. There had been a few hints of blame placed on him for this accident, but it was just a racing accident. Actually, Von Trips moved over on Clark. Clark was on the outside and Von Trips just moved over on him. View this accident in the large screen mode. You can clearly see Von Trips causing the accident, not Clark. Clark was about the safest, most cautious drivers there ever was.

[tylertjp]

Was that Von Trip's body flying across the track at 1:28-1:35?

[Troylito]

no. If you look closely at 1:10 to 1:12 you can see his Ferrari veer off up toward the fence. Once it makes contact he comes out of the car in a forward direction. His body ends up on the edge of the track on the side where his car hit the fence. Later in the video you can see them pick hic body up from where he came to rest.

[Troylito]

you can see him laying there at 2:30, on the accident side of the track.

[indigoblue555]

Awesome video - but it doesn't clear how did it happen -I was told that Von Trips and Jim Clark collided on the straight = And J.Clark did quickly leave Italy that afternoon...as

he did hit the rear wheel of Von trips car=

[kcs2345]

What the hell did I just see nobody contacked him.wild!

[Porsche911GT1]

that was really nasty

[AudiROCKS]

sure was man!!! pretty sik though!