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| Great Read: Graham Hill: the master of art and graft in all corners of the world |
November 2015 | Paul Fearnley |
He wasn't a natural – or so they say. But consider the prolific list of cars and wins across the globe. Doesn't Graham Hill deserve more credit? asks Paul Fearnley 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 Graham Hill had been making up for lost time for more than 20 years, since stepping off the clutch of an outdated Cooper-JAP to briefly lead his first motor race.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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F1's extraordinary events and legendary drivers captured in new book |
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2024 Mexico City GP preview: Will this be Sergio Perez's last home race? |
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