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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. |
| The tragic 1961 Italian Grand Prix run on the full 10-kilometre circuit and saddened by the fatal accident that cost the life, at the entrance to the 'parabolic" curve, of Von Trips in a Ferrari and eleven spectators, marked the end of the use of the high speed track for Grand Prix single-seaters. |
| 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. |
| F1 News - Grandprix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Circuits > Mexico City (Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez) (1021 words) |
| The driver was Ricardo Rodriguez and in 1961 he drove a Ferrari at the Italian Grand Prix at the age of 19 years and 208 days. |
| In 1989 the race was moved to the Spring to be twinned with the new United States GP in Phoenix. |
| The 1990 Grand Prix was won by Alain Prost's Ferrari but each year the bumps became worse and in 1991 Senna turned his McLaren upside-down in the Peraltada in qualifying. |
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