Phil Hill - 1927 to 2008

taken from autosport.com:

Motor racing legend and the only American-born Formula One world champion Phil Hill has died tonight in a California hospital due to complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 81 years old.

Phil Hill won the world championship driving for Ferrari in 1961, becoming the first American to do so, later to be followed only by Mario Andretti. But Hill remains to date the only native-born American to win the title.

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RIP

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RIP.

He won the 61 championship in the saddest of circumstances.

I am so sad. He was such a great guy. Apart from being racing driver he was also very capable pianist. And very nice fellow. RIP Phill.

Also on the side note there is a strange coincidence, each time American driver went on to win WDC, his teammate would get fataly injured at Monza.

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R.I.P Phil. F1's going to miss you.

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R.I.P.

Amazingly after Fangio, only the 2nd WDC who died of old age.

RIP, always sad to hear someone from the sport, especially a great.

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2013 - Nando must come through..

RIP

RIP Phil

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RIP

Sim

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Very sad news. My best wishes to his family RIP Phil, a true racer and gentleman

RIP

Everything I've read about him says he was a true gentleman. Saw him in the pits at the USGP a couple of years ago, a guest of Honda I think. Sad to hear of his passing.

Makes me wonder if we will ever see a successful American driver in F1 again, never mind a World Champ....



"There are some pikeys there at Turn 10 putting tarmac down - what do you think of that?" - Martin Brundle

Phil was the first to ever lap the Nordschleife in under 9 minutes, Legend.

Met him at Long Beach in 2006 as he was inducted into the Long Beach Hall of Fame with Dan Gurney. He looked pretty ill back then and I'm surprised hes lasted this long. The mans a gentleman, and a legend. RIP.

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