Of course, with my previous motorcycle career, I came to motor racing quite late in Phil Hill`s career but in time to see him reach his climax by winning the Formula One World Championship with Ferrari. Phil was a very enthusiastic and very bubbly character. I remember seeing him, and his wife Alma, in 1960, when they were all part of the motor racing scene. What really is important about him is that there haven’t been too many other American…

Phil Hill was running surprisingly well in the 1963 Dutch Grand Prix, until a minor accident broke his ATS’s stub axle on lap 15.
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