Phil Hill, the US's first F1 champion and a three-time Le Mans winner, died on this day in 2008. Chaparral won its first and last European races, but in between suffered a catalogue of failures. Hill, who scored both wins, tells Preston Lerner what went wrong — and right in today's Great Read
Talk about going out in style! Not only did Phil Hill win the last professional race he entered — the BOAC 500 at Brands Hatch in 1967 — but as a going-away present for boss Jim Hall, he also gave the Chaparral 2F its one and only victory.
"We should have won a lot more races that season, considering how fast the car was," Hill recalls. "At Brands Hatch, we had an unexpected flat tyre, and we won the race anyway! We beat a Ferrari driven by Jackie Stewart and Chris Amon. I still like to rub Jackie's nose in it..."
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