Phil Hill archive
F1 drivers who won at Le Mans
10 June 2009 by Keith Collantine
This weekend sees the 77th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours. The great race has been won by 117 different drivers and over half of them – 62 – also competed in the Formula 1 world championship at some point in their career.
Many of them were race winners in F1, some were even champions [...]
Formula 1’s lost nations: USA
28 January 2009 by Keith Collantine
Last world champion: Mario Andretti, Lotus, 1978
Last Grand Prix winner: Mario Andretti, Lotus, Zandvoort, 1978
Last Grand Prix starter: Scott Speed, Scuderia Toro Rosso, Nürburgring, 2007
Last Grand Prix: Indianapolis, 2007
Although F1 has never been hugely popular in America, and probably never will be, it has a small but dedicated following in the USA. Unfortunately the last [...]
F60: another name change for Ferrari
13 January 2009 by Keith Collantine
Ferrari’s new 2009 F1 car launched yesterday may mark another change in the team’s somewhat esoteric approach to naming its cars.
Here’s a brief guide to how Ferrari have named their F1 cars from 1950 to 2009.
Phil Hill, 1927-2008
29 August 2008 by Keith Collantine
I was saddened to learn today of the death of Phil Hill. Hill, 81, was America’s first world champion in 1961, for Ferrari.
Hill, from Santa Monica in California, was the only native-born American to win the Formula 1 world championship. (Mario Andretti, champion 17 years later, was an Italian emigree).
He joined Enzo Ferrari’s F1 team [...]
100 F1 race winners part 3: 1959-1962
7 August 2008 by Keith Collantine
Part three of our look at Formula 1’s 100 Grand Prix winners. This part looks at the careers of champions such as Jack Brabham, Phill Hill and Graham Hill.
Ferrari’s 200 pole positions
21 June 2008 by Keith Collantine
Kimi Raikkonen achieved Ferrari’s 200th pole position in qualifying for tomorrow’s French Grand Prix.
The Italian team are far ahead of their rivals in terms of total pole positions, with McLaren on 135 and Williams on 125.
Here’s a complete breakdown of their achievement including every driver who scored a pole position for Ferrari.
Ferrari score their 200th Grand Prix victory
8 October 2007 by Keith Collantine
Kimi Raikkonen’s victory in the Chinese Grand Prix was the 200th Grand Prix win for Ferrari.
The great Italian team is the only outfit that was present in the first ever championship Grand Prix still competing in Formula One.
Until 1988 the team was headed by founder Enzo Ferrari. But it has won more races since the [...]
10 of the best… American F1 drivers
14 June 2007 by Keith Collantine
F1 has always struggled to catch on in America, despite the popularity of home-grown motor sports such as Indy Car racing and NASCAR.
There were no American drivers in F1 at all from 1994 to 2005. But the country has given F1 two champions and a host of Grand Prix winners. Here’s ten of the most [...]
The Magic of Monaco
15 May 2005 by Keith Collantine
Not only is the Monaco Grand Prix the most glamorous event on the motor racing calendar, it is also a living piece of F1 history. Drivers have gone to battle in the impossibly tight confines of the streets of Monte-Carlo since 1929.
Nine non-championship events were run at Monaco from 1929 to 1937, followed by a [...]
