Phil Hill secured the F1 title on this day at the 1961 Italian GP, a championship glory shaded by tragedy. For director of sport Romolo Tavoni, it was one of personal turmoil too
Whenever I am in Italy, I visit my old friend Romolo Tavoni at his home outside Modena. Tavoni is now 85, in poor health and in receipt of hospital treatment, but he still revels in talking about his years with Ferrari between 1950-61, the last four of which were spent as director of sport.
On this occasion we discussed Ferrari's 1961 season, which Romolo describes as, "Very satisfying, but very difficult because of a range of problems. We won five of the year's championship races [with the 156], Stirling Moss won two with Lotus 18s for Rob Walker and we didn't compete in the final round at Watkins Glen. The team's satisfaction was marred by the death of [Wolfgang] von Trips of course and by the behaviour of [Enzo's wife] Laura Ferrari..."
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