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Phil Hill – Our First Champion

Phil Hill took his first Grand Prix win in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in 1960, driving the outmoded Ferrari 246.

Forty years! That’s how long it’s been since our man Philip Toll Hill, Jr., became the first American to win the World Driving Championship.

There are two ways to look at such a span of time. I’ll bet some of us – maybe even Phil himself – would like to think it was only yesterday. Others may dismiss Hill’s achievement as ancient, irrelevant history.

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