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Philip Toll Hill Jr. (April 20, 1927 – August 28, 2008) was an American racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1958 to 1966. Hill won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1961 with Ferrari, and won three Grands Prix across eight seasons.
Phil Hill. The first American to become World Champion had a love/hate relationship with the sport. Profoundly intelligent and deeply sensitive, he was also remarkably candid about personal demons that caused inner turmoil and made his racing life a bittersweet experience.
Phil Hill (born April 20, 1927, Miami, Fla., U.S.—died Aug. 28, 2008, Monterey, Calif.) was the first American-born race-car driver to win (1961) the Formula 1 (F1) Grand Prix world championship of drivers.
In 1961 and ‘62 he won the race at Sebring and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. At the end of the year Hill left Ferrari for an uncertain future at the ATS team and retired in 1967 at the age of 39. 1 / 4. Scuderia Ferrari Hero: Phil Hill, a racing driver of promise.
Jun 25, 2021 · PHIL HILL WAS THE FIRST AMERICAN TO WIN THE FORMULA 1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. His success promoted F1 to a previously sceptical American public and to other US racing drivers. A few other Americans had tried, post-war (the first US F1 driver was Harry Schell, who briefly drove for Ferrari in 1955).
Philip Hill was an American racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1958 to 1966, becoming the first and only U.S.-born driver to win the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship, which he claimed in 1961 with Ferrari.
America's first world champion, Phil Hill would probably have achieved more had he not switched to the ill-fated ATS operation at the end of 1962.
Philip Toll Hill Jr. (April 20, 1927 – August 28, 2008) was an American racing driver. He was one of two American drivers to win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, and the only one who was born in the United States (the other, Mario Andretti, was born in Italy and later became an American citizen).
Aug 28, 2008 · Phil Hill, the only American-born Formula One champion, died today at the age of 81. He died at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. He had suffered from Parkinson’s disease and another...
Phil Hill (April 20, 1927 – August 28, 2008) was the only American-born racing driver to win the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship (’61) and was America’s first 24 Hours of Le Mans champion, having won on three separate occasions (’58, ’61 and ’62).
