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In 1959 Phil Hill found his Formula 1 feet, but Tony Brooks was the Italian team’s star that season and the cool, cultured Englishman was faster in a Formula 1 car, although not in a sports car. Into 1960, and the front-engined V6 Formula 1 Ferraris were obsolescent, but Phil was always aggressive and rapid.
Phil Hill. Phil Hill won the Formula 1 world championship for Ferrari in terrible and tragic circumstances. The American driver was a highly successful sports car racer. In 1957 he scored the first of three wins in the Le Mans 24 Hours, driving with Olivier Gendebien. Shortly afterwards Hill (no relation to his rival Graham Hill) began racing ...
Phil Hill was the first United States F1 champion. The first and only American-born champion in Formula 1 history, Philip Toll Hill always thought that he had chosen the wrong path for his life. Still, his racing showed his talent was really high and his achievements say a lot about his abilities inside a car.
Phil Hill. Philip Toll Hill, Jr., ( April 20, 1927 – August 28, 2008) was an American automobile racer and the only American-born driver to win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship. Hill was described as a "thoughtful, gentle man" and once said, "I'm in the wrong business. I don't want to beat anybody, I don't want to be the big hero ...
About Phil Hill. Born in Miami, Florida, Hill was raised in Santa Monica, California, where he lived until his death. He studied business administration at the University of Southern California from 1945-47 where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Hill left early to pursue auto racing, working as a mechanic on other drivers’ cars.
Aug 29, 2008 · Aug. 28, 2008. Phil Hill, one of the greatest of American auto racers, an introspective and cerebral champion whose celebrated driving career began when he took a neighbor’s new Oldsmobile for a ...
Phil Hill. 1927. április 20. Miami. A Wikimédia Commons tartalmaz Phil Hill témájú médiaállományokat. Ifj. Philip Toll Hill ( Miami, 1927. április 20. – Salinas, 2008. augusztus 28.) volt amerikai autóversenyző, az egyetlen amerikai születésű, valamint Mario Andretti mellett az egyetlen amerikai Formula–1 -es világbajnok.
