How will history remember Count Wolf-gang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximillian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips? “Von Krash,” as the dim-witted sniggeringly called him? As a journeyman? Or as a true gentleman who all but won the Formula One World Championship for drivers?
The latter, I believe, would be a fair entry for the history books. OK, so he had a number of accidents, the last of which took his life. But he was no journeyman, rather a world champion in the making. When he died he was leading the F1 world drivers’ table by 33 points to Phil Hill’s 29.
