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When he returned for the following season, his last with Ferrari, Hill said, 'I no longer have as much need to race, to win. Ferrari's decision not to travel to America for the season's final round deprived Hill of the opportunity to participate in his home race at Watkins Glen as the newly crowned World Champion. Hill won the race and clinched the championship but the triumph was bittersweet. A crash during the Italian Grand Prix killed von Trips and fifteen spectators. The following season, Hill won the Belgian Grand Prix and with two races left trailed only his Ferrari teammate Wolfgang von Trips in the season standings. This also turned out to be the last win for a front-engined car in Formula 1.

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In 1960 he won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the first Grand Prix win for an American driver in nearly forty years (except the Indianapolis 500, once part of Grand Prix World Championship series), since Jimmy Murphy won the 1921 French Grand Prix. Hill began driving full-time for the Ferrari Formula One team in 1959, earning three podium finishes and fourth place in the Drivers' Championship. Hill driving a Ferrari 250 TR at the 12 hours of Sebring (1958) He and Gendebien would go on to win the endurance race again in 19. That same year, paired with Belgian teammate Olivier Gendebien, Hill became the first American-born winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Hill driving most of the night in horrific rainy conditions. He made his debut in the French Grand Prix at Reims France in 1958 driving a Maserati. Hill began racing cars at an early age, going to England as a Jaguar trainee in 1949 and signing with Enzo Ferrari's team in 1956.

Hill left early to pursue auto racing, working as a mechanic on other drivers' cars. He studied business administration at the University of Southern California from 1945 to 1947, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. I'm a peace-loving man, basically.' Career īorn April 20, 1927, in Miami, Florida, Hill was raised in Santa Monica, California, where he lived until his death. I don't want to beat anybody, I don't want to be the big hero. Hill was described as a 'thoughtful, gentle man' and once said, 'I'm in the wrong business. He also scored three wins at each of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and 12 Hours of Sebring sports car races.

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He was one of two American drivers to win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, and the only one who was born in the United States (the other, Mario Andretti, was born in Italy and later became an American citizen). (Ap– August 28, 2008) was an American racing driver. Maserati, Ferrari, Cooper, Porsche, Automobili Turismo e Sport, Lotus, McLaren, Eagle Hill at the 1991 United States Grand Prix in Phoenix

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