• Italian Grand Prix
  • Gethin wins fastest ever GP

  • September 5, 1971: A year after Jochen Rindt's tragic death, Peter Gethin secured his first grand prix victory at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Driving a Yardley BRM, Britain's Gethin won a slipstreaming thriller at an average of 150.75mph and he won by just one one-undredth of a second

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