"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Friday, August 29, 2008

Sad passing

One of the great drivers passes


Phil Hill, a Racing Legend at Odds With the Sport at Times, Is Dead at 81
... a reserved Californian who became a gifted race-car driver and the only U.S.-born driver to win the Formula One international auto-racing championship, died Thursday. He was 81.

Hill died at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula of complications from Parkinson's disease, said John Lamm, a close friend who is also editor-at-large of Road & Track magazine.

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