21/08/2006
NEWS STORY
This year's Goodwood Revival, the world's most authentic historic motor sport meeting, will celebrate the outstanding career and achievements of North American racing legend Phil Hill.
Between 1-3 September, the Goodwood Motor Circuit, near Chichester, will not only host a large gathering of significant cars from the racing career of Phil Hill (right), but also the orchestrate the reunion of the American World Champion with many of the characters who raced with and against him in the 1950s and 1960s.
To date Phil Hill is the only USA-born Grand Prix World Champion, winning his title with the Ferrari team in 1961 in the revered 'shark nose' 156 Dino. In addition to his World Championship title, Hill also took victory in countless races over nearly 20 years in motor racing; including winning the gruelling Le Mans 24-hour race three times.
During the Revival weekend, Phil Hill will be reunited with various Ferraris that he drove in his racing heyday, including the 1955 750 Monza, the beautiful 1963 250 GTO, plus two of his three Le Mans winners. He will also be reacquainted with some lesser-known, but no less exciting, machinery from his racing past, including the 1963 Aston Martin Project 215, a rare OSCA MT4, and the MG TC that he cut his racing teeth on as a youngster in California.
A special highlight for Phil, plus the expected 100,000-plus Revival crowd, will be the fearsome Chaparral-Chevrolet 2F that he campaigned in 1967, just before his retirement from motor sport. Hill won the BOAC 500 race at Brands Hatch on 30th July 1967 in the Chaparral, the car's only victory, as it failed to finish all of its other races. The Chaparral has been shipped over to Goodwood from the USA especially for the Revival tribute to Phil, and is believed to be the car's first appearance on a British race track since its Brands Hatch win in 1967.
During the Revival Phil Hill will also get the chance to catch up with many racing colleagues, including Sir Stirling Moss and Sir Jack Brabham, and re-familiarise himself with the Goodwood Motor Circuit that he first visited 57 years ago, as a young visiting American trainee with Jaguar Cars and the S.U. Carburetter (sic) Company.
A tribute to Phil Hill will take place on the Goodwood track around lunch time on all three days of the Revival, and throughout the weekend of this historic event the circuit will echo to the spine-tingling bark of golden-age Grand Prix cars from the Fifties and Sixties, as well as thundering sports and GT cars, nostalgic saloon cars and little-seen Formula Juniors. Many of these important historic racing cars will be driven by famous faces from motor sport past and present. Phil Hill, Sir Stirling Moss, John Surtees, Sir Jack Brabham, Derek Bell, David Coulthard, Damon Hill, Gerhard Berger, Johnny Herbert, Wayne Gardner, Giacomo Agostini and the late, great Barry Sheene have all taken part at the Revival.
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