The Ferrari champion who quit while he was ahead
Phil Hill won the 1961 F1 world championship in the most tragic of circumstances, then called time on his career after winning his last motor race. NIGEL ROEBUCK remembers one of the smartest drivers of his era
As a rule of thumb, retired racing drivers are better company than their active counterparts, not least because they can speak with impunity and tell the real story, rather than the sanitised guff which routinely insults our intelligence today.
Take Phil Hill, for example, whose career ended on the highest of notes. After taking victory in the BOAC 500 at Brands Hatch in 1967, driving for Chaparral, Hill never raced again, although, typically, he never made any formal announcement of his retirement.
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