{"id":490366,"date":"2008-11-01T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=50015"},"modified":"2024-12-27T01:25:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T01:25:28","slug":"wolfgang-von-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wolfgang-von-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfgang von Trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How will history remember Count Wolf-gang Alexander Albert Eduard Maximillian Reichsgraf Berghe von Trips? \u201cVon Krash,\u201d 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?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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\u2019 table by 33 points to Phil Hill\u2019s 29.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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