Graham Hill took his third consecutive Monaco GP win on this day in 1965. He wasn't a natural – or so they say. But consider the prolific list of cars and wins across the globe. Paul Fearnley asks if the double F1 champion deserves more credit in today's Great Read
The final action of a packed life was fuelled by a need to be elsewhere, sooner rather than later. Graham Hill had been making up for lost time for more than 20 years, since stepping off the clutch of an outdated Cooper-JAP to briefly lead his first motor race. That he was 25 when he did so wasn't unusual – teen sensations of that period, Stirling Moss and Peter Collins, were exceptions – but the fact that he'd never seen a race prior to that adrenalin-charged moment at Brands Hatch on Easter Monday, 1954, most definitely was.
Incredibly, the future 'Mr Monaco' had known nothing of the principality's motor sport heritage when he moored there in 1951 during his National Service with the Royal Navy. Indeed, his family had never owned a car until he bought a Morris Eight – "a real old heap" – and belatedly passed his driving test...
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