Wolfgang v. Trips Helmet Poster

Print graphic depicting the personal crash helmet of the famous racing driver. Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, 1928 – 1961 Von Trips, nicknamed 'Taffy' by friends and fellow racers, was a German racing driver and the only son of a noble Rhinelandfamily. He participated in 29 Formula One World Championship Grand Prix races, debuting on 2 September 1956. In 1961 von Trips won the Targa Florio. In 1961 von Trips established a go-kart race track in Kerpen, Germany. The track was later leased by Rolf Schumacher, whose sons, Michael and Ralf, made their first laps there. The 1961 Italian Grand Prix, his last tragic race, saw von Trips tightly locked in the battle for the Formula One World Drivers' Championship that year with his teammate Phil Hill. When his Ferrari collided with Jim Clark's Lotus. Von Trips drove his big races with the coat of arms of the Scuderia Colonia on his silver helmet.