1971 - 1000 Km Buenos Aires - Ignazio Giunti and J.P. Beltoise crash Ferrari 312 PB Matra

Tragedy struck in Giunti his first race in 1971 whilst racing in the 1000 km Buenos Aires race, when his Ferrari 312PB prototype ploughed into the back of the Matra 660 of Jean-Pierre Beltoise, who was pushing the car along the track after it had run out of fuel. The impact and the subsequent fire gave the popular Italian no chance of survival.

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• Ferrari
• Matra
• Ignazio
• Giunti
• Beltois
• Buenos
• Aires
• 1000
• km
• race
• 1971
• tragedy
• crash
• fire

[cbkspa]

It looks to me as if, Beltoise is trying to push the car OFF the racing line. Very dangerous. But if He didnt. how many cars would hit it?

[Dimage25]

My god what was Beltoise thinking, there was not only the danger that his car could be hit by someone, but he could have gotten run over himself. The fact that the organizers had forbidden cars to be pushed on the racetrack makes his actions even more objectionable.

[sei750]

Beltoise was very very stupid and the marshalls .........unbelievably stupid!

[cao3008]

Si, es un asesino que fue juzgado por las leyes argentinas e indultado por la presidenta Isabel Perón en 1975 como condición para realizar el Gran Prix Argentina '76 que finalmente no se realizó

[ipecaquana]

Beltoise KILLER.

[kevinthegos]

Where has all this footage suddenly came from? There has been talk for years that there was video of it but i've never seen it. Where did you find it?

[GDH1981]

Thanks for uploading this, I'd only read about this crash in the past. Beltiose was really out of order here, pushing his car across the track was not an ideal move! However I think the marshalls should have at least stopped him.