Wolfgang von Trips was a German racing driver and Rhineland nobleman who competed in Formula One from 1956 to 1961, almost entirely for Ferrari. Born in Cologne in 1928 and raised at the family castle in Kerpen, he gave up farming for motor racing and was nicknamed Taffy by friends and rivals. He won two Grands Prix, the Dutch and British races of 1961, and was leading that year's World Drivers' Championship when he was killed in a collision at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on 10 September 1961, an accident that also killed fifteen spectators. He finished as posthumous runner-up, one point behind his Ferrari teammate Phil Hill.
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was a German racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1956 to 1961
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was a German racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1956 to 1961
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was a German racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1956 to 1961
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was a German racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1956 to 1961
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He made his Formula One debut at the 1956 Italian Grand Prix with Ferrari
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