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9 de feb. de 2024 · Phil Hill was one of only a few drivers to win both the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Formula 1 World Championship. He is remembered as a motorsport icon, known for his kindness, easy-going manner and immense talent. Here is a look back at the career of an extraordinary American driver.
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.
L'Américain obtient quant à lui son deuxième podium consécutif. Pour la saison 1959, Phil Hill s'impose définitivement comme un pilote de Grand Prix, et devient n°3 de la Scuderia derrière Tony Brooks et Jean Behra. Les grilles de Formule 1 vont donc s'habituer à la présence de ce Californien hors-norme.
7 de jul. de 2014 · Hill was the new World Champion, the first American to win the title, but his well-earned triumph was overwhelmed by the tragedy and he never received the recognition he was due. This is the 40th anniversary of Hill’s season-long battle for the championship but though now 74, Phil is sharp as ever, his recall remarkable and precise.
8 de sept. de 2021 · Exactly sixty years ago, Phil Hill became the first American to win the Formula 1 World Championship after triumphing for Ferrari in the 1961 Italian Grand Prix at Monza. But that moment of monumental personal achievement was extraordinarily bittersweet, because at that very same race team mate and title rival Wolfgang von Trips lost his life, along with scores of spectators, in a devastating ...
29 de ago. de 2008 · Lo que no consiguieron ninguno de sus rivales en pista en la temporada de 1961, lo ha conseguido el Parkinson: vencer a Phil Hill.El único Campeón del Mundo nacido en tierra estadounidense ...
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 ...
