The 1971 season saw the arrival of the BRM P160. It won the Austrian and Italian Grands Prix in the hands of Siffert and Gethin respectively. Pedro Rodriguez drove the number 8 car seen here in the Dutch Grand Prix that year. The race was wet—very wet—and the track was treacherously wet and slippery. Ickx led from pole and as everyone else struggled Ickx and Rodriguez built up a big lead with Rodriguez moving ahead on the ninth lap. Their duel would continue for most of the race but towards the end Ickx pulled away to win by nearly eight seconds. The two “wet-weather men” beat the rest of the field by more than one lap.
Pedro Rodriguez would die less than one month later at the Norisring Circuit in Germany in an Interserie sports car race at the wheel of a Ferrari 512M.
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