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This is an official program from the 1961 Formula 1 Grand Prix held July 1961 in Reims, France - (XLVII Grand Prix de L'A.C.F. - 2 Juillet 1961)
paperback booklet / 80 pages / illustrated with photographs & drawings
The course was a 5.158 mile (8.302 km) street circuit and the race distance was 52 laps won by Italian driver Giancarlo Baghetti driving a Ferrari. - Second place went to American Dan Gurney driving a Porsche, and third place to Britain Jim Clark driving a Lotus-Climax. - This race was the first (and only) race to be won for Baghetti. - Gurney was the first driver to win races in Sports Cars (1958), Formula One (1962), NASCAR (1963), and Indy Car (1967). - Jim Clark was killed in a Formula Two motor racing accident in Hockenheim, Germany in 1968.
