He competed in Formula One races from 1970 to 1980, winning five Grands Prix. His first win was the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in his debut season, driving for Ferrari. He remained with the Italian team until 1972. After a single season with BRM, Regazzoni returned to Ferrari for a further three years, 1974 to 1976.

Clay Regazzoni died in a car accident in Italy on 15 December 2006.

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Between 1970 and 1976, Clay Regazzoni took part in 74 Grands Prix with Ferrari, winning four and taking the same number of pole positions. In total he finished on the podium 23 times (apart from those wins, there were eleven seconds and eight third places) and 13 fastest race laps. His record also features wins in the 1972 Monza 1000 Kms, teamed with Ickx and in the 1971 Kyalami 9 Hours, with Redman and the following year with Merzario.

“Bon viveur, footballer, tennis player and, when nothing better to do, a driver: that’s how I described Clay Regazzoni, the brilliant and timeless Clay, the ideal guest of honour for any sort of fashionable event and a great resource for women’s magazines,” wrote Enzo Ferrari in his book ‘Piloti, che gente,’ – “he honed his skills in style and temperament, which was among the most audacious, until he became a great professional. His rivals always respected him.”

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The 68-lap race was won by Ferrari driver Clay Regazzoni after he started from third position. This was the last time that Monza was driven for 68 laps. From 1971 onwards, the race distance would be 55 laps.

Clay Regazzoni claimed his maiden Formula One victory at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in 1970, on a day when he made only his fifth career start with Ferrari

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It was an all Ferrari front row after qualifying, with Niki Lauda sweeping to pole ahead of Clay Regazzoni. Two McLarens shared the second row, Emerson Fittipaldi ahead of Mike Hailwood, while Jody Scheckter would start the race from fifth alongside James Hunt.

There would be a fairly exciting start to the race on Sunday, with Lauda immediately slithering into the lead, ahead of a fast starting Hailwood. Regazzoni slipped to third ahead of Patrick Depailler, up from eighth, while Hunt made a terrible start before collecting Tom Pryce in turn one, eliminating the pair of them.

The order of the top six was settled for the the rest of the race, with Niki Lauda establishing a lead over teammate Clay Regazzoni, who was himself thirty seconds clear of Fittipaldi. Lauda was therefore left to claim a second career win ahead of Regazzoni, while Fittipaldi did little to close the gap in third

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Regazzoni was now heading for the win, but he wasn’t taking it easy. He also set the fastest race lap and crossed the line over 40 seconds ahead of Lauda. The race brought the Swiss driver the great satisfaction of thus taking the first pole, win, fastest lap triple of his career, leading from start to finish. It was on this very track, five years later, that Regazzoni would have the accident in an Ensign that would consign him to a wheel chair for the rest of his life.

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“A bon viveur, a dancer, a footballer, tennis player and, when he had nothing better to do, a racing driver: that’s how I’d describe Clay Regazzoni, the brilliant, timeless Clay, the ideal guest of honour for any sort of fashionable event, a great source of stories for women’s magazines,” is how Enzo Ferrari described him in his book, ‘Piloti,che gente,’ “he honed his style and temperament, as one of the bravest, to the point where he became really professional. His rivals always respected him.”
The Swiss driver also competed in Formula 1 with BRM, Ensign, Shadow and Williams: with the latter, he won the 1979 British Grand Prix. Other wins worthy of note were the 1970 European Formula 2 Championship.

On 30th May 1980, at Long Beach during the United States West Grand Prix, Regazzoni had a brake problem on his Ensign and ended up crashing into Zunino’s Brabham, which had stopped in an escape road on the street circuit. Serious injuries to his legs left him a paraplegic.

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Ickx wasn’t able to close the points gap to the late Jochen Rindt in the final races of the season, and as result the latter was awarded the championship posthumously, becoming the only driver to ever win the title after death.

Clay Regazzoni started from pole position in a Ferrari, with Stewart second on the grid in his Tyrrell and Jacky Ickx starting third in the other Ferrari. Brabham, in one of his own cars, was fourth on the grid, and Chris Amon in a March and Jean-Pierre Beltoise in a Matra were fifth and sixth. Rodriguez started from seventh in a BRM.

On Lap 2, Jacky Ickx, the Ferrari team leader, quickly passed his teammate to take the lead, and Stewart, close behind him also passed Regazzoni.

Then, after 14 laps, Stewart made a pit stop as his steering column had come loose, and that put the Ferraris back in first and second. Brabham moved into third, which would have been a fabulous end to his career, but his engine blew on Lap 53 of the 65-lap race. Stewart returned to the race, and on Lap 33 he hit and killed a large dog that was running across the track.

As the two Ferraris cruised on in the lead, toward the end of the race some spectators began running back and forth across the track, perhaps daring to see if they could fare better than the dog.

In the end, the Ferraris, with Jacky Ickx leading Clay Regazzoni, came in first and second, and Denny Hulme finished in third in a McLaren. Amon finished fourth, and Beltoise finished fifth. Rodríguez finished sixth.

After the race, the spectators invaded the track, forcing cars to stop abruptly after they crossed the finish line because there was no room for them to drive.

The Mexican Grand Prix was removed from the calendar the following year because of that chaos. It returned to the schedule 16 years later, from 1986 to 1992, and was reinstated again in 2015 to resounding success because of the enthusiasm of the spectators, who remained orderly.

Formula One has since instituted strict safety measures for both drivers and spectators.

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As usual, Ferrari’s founder did not attend the race. But Luca Dal Monte describes his reaction vividly in his biography, Enzo Ferrari: Power, Politics, and the Making of an Automotive Empire: “One hundred and twenty miles away from the chaotic Monza celebration, in the quiet solitude of his blue-walled office, Enzo rejoiced. He had waited eleven years, but, at last, he was World Champion again.”

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The result took Clay Regazzoni into the lead of the championship classification with 10 points, one more than the McLaren duo of Fittipaldi and Hulme, while Lauda was fourth with 6 points. Regazzoni also had the satisfaction of setting the race fastest lap.

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