“I no longer have as much need to race, to win. I don”
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Phil Hill
Philip Toll Hill Jr. 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. In endurance racing, Hill was a three-time winner of both the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 12 Hours of Sebring, all with Ferrari. Upon winning the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1964 with…
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sports · American racing driver (1927–2008) · Formula One driver · racing automobile driver · also Phil Hill, Hill
Born 20 April 1927 · Died 28 August 2008 · Q3112
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Fair Hill Five: horse racing’s bizarre transatlantic betting coup – explained
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2008· 1 entry
Died 2008-08-28.
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2001· 1 entry
2002 and 2003, but was forced to retire when Phil became ill with Parkinson's disease
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of split genes.
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1991· 1 entry
Was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame
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1964· 2 entries
With NART, Hill became the first driver to complete the Triple Crown of endurance racing
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Continued in Formula One, driving for the Cooper Formula One Team before retiring from single-seaters at the end of the season and limiting his future driving to sports car racing with Ford Motor Company and the Chapa
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1961· 1 entry
With Ferrari, and won three Grands Prix across eight seasons
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1960· 1 entry
Won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the first Grand Prix win for an American driver in nearly forty years (except the Indianapolis 500, once part of Grand Prix World Championship series), since Jimmy Murphy won the 1
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1959· 2 entries
Hill attained 257 mph in this car, breaking the previous record of Stirling Moss in the same car, 246 mph
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Earning three podium finishes and fourth place in the Drivers' Championship
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1949· 1 entry
And signing with Enzo Ferrari's team in 1956
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1927· 1 entry
Born 1927-04-20.
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