Racing legend Graham Hill, the only person to win motor sport's triple crown, was born on this day in 1929. In claiming his Indy jewel, it wasn't Hill's first visit to the Speedway, but was his first crack at the race – and he won. Or did he? Joe Scalzo unravels the controversy in today's Great Read
Sam Hanks, a grizzled warhorse, had ample time to prepare a Victory Circle statement because he was a campaign veteran who'd never led a single lap in 11 prior Indys. But when Sam at last won the 500, the weight of all those losing years so choked him up that, instead of talking, he broke down and bawled. Compared to all this made-in-America theatrics, bombast and weeping, Graham Hill's victory utterance in the mad 500 of 1966 was honest and droll: "I'm a bit surprised to have won." He wasn't the only one...
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