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Phil Hill, America's First Formula 1 World Champion - Vile Gossip
Phil Hill, America's First Formula 1 World Champion - Vile Gossip
Our heroes are dying and it breaks our heart in two. Today, we mourn Phil Hill.
We have lost THE great Phil Hill, America's first Formula 1 world champion (1961, for Ferrari ), an erudite and genteel but complex man who won his very first competitive race (1949, in an MG TC) and his last (1967, in a Chaparral). He was the first American to win a postwar Grand Prix (1960, at Monza) and the first American to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans (1958, in one of Scuderia Ferrari's three 250 Testa Rossa entries). He died on August 28 of complications from Parkinson's disease. Phil was 81 years old, a feat in itself, considering that four of his eight Ferrari teammates had been killed in the five years leading to his championship. As Pat Jordan wrote in a 1976 Sports Illustrated article, "By the fall of 1961, most of the great Formula 1 drivers of the '50s had been killed, twenty of them in races in which Hill had been competing."
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