FORMULA ONE DRIVER WORLD CHAMPIONS - THE GREATS
Graham Hill
Norman Graham Hill was born on 15th of February 1929.
A thoroughly British racing driver, who started all 176 of his world championship races in British-built machinery with; BRM, Lotus, Shadow, Lola and his own nascent Embassy Hill constructor. Hill's two World Championship titles came in very different circumstances. He won the 1962 world championship for BRM, completing the team's odyssey from laughing stock to top of the world, while in 1968 he helped regroup Team Lotus behind him after the death of Jim Clark. He was a hard worker, but he cut it with the best in the 1960s and had far more ability than many credit him with. Graham and his son Damon, remain the only father and son combo, to both go on and win the Formula One Drivers World Championship. He loved driving, plugging on in F1 until 1975 until his embarrassing failure to qualify for the Monaco Grand Prix; a race he excelled at in the 1960s. He tragically died in a plane crash later that year. |
F1 CAREER: 1958 - 1975
NATIONALITY: British
GRAND PRIX RACE STARTS: 176
CHAMPIONSHIPS WON: 2
RACE WINS: 14
PODIUMS: 36
POLE POSITIONS: 13
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