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F1 News - Grandprix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > Italian GP, 1961 (410 words) |
 | The penultimate race of the 1961 World Championship was to be a showdown between the Ferrari drivers. |
| The team had already won the Constructors' title so it was a straight fight between Wolfgang Von Trips and Phil Hill for the Drivers' title although Moss still had a mathematical chance of victory if he won both races. |
| Von Trips was on pole with Rodriguez second (becoming the youngest driver ever to start a World Championship Grand Prix) ahead of Ginther and P Hill with Graham Hill's BRM sharing the third row with Baghetti. |
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| The Grand Prix of Nations for 1924 was a triumph for the Guzzi 500, a one horizontal cylinder bike with overhead camshaft and four valves, ridden by Mentasti, who gave Italy its first victory in the exclusive world of champion 2- wheelers. |
| In relation with this development of cars and in concert with the GPDA (Grand Prix Drivers' Association) two chicanes were built in 1972 for the purpose of reducing speed at the entrance to the fastest curves on the course, the "curva grande" (big bend) at the end of the grandstand straight and the "Ascari" curve. |
| The Italian Grand Prix was the greatest attraction for the public during this period, an event that has always been held -- in recent years at least -- on the road circuit, the layout of which has been unchanged since 1976. |
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