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Phil Hill, Yankee Champion: First American to Win the Driving Championship of the World

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Phil Hill: Yankee Champion
First American to Win the Driving Championship of the World
By William F. Nolan

Originally published in 1962 and out of print long enough to be worth some serious money in the collectable-book marketplace, Phil Hill: Yankee Champion was revised, updated and enhanced by the original author William F. Nolan for this new release. Publisher Brown Fox Books put a lovely Peter Hearsey piece of art on the dust jacket and sourced 100 plus photos, many never published before, to complete this volume. Nolan's prose captures time, place and the personalities so well that you, the reader, feel as though you are there, live and in person, at whatever moment it is you are reading about. And those moments trace Phil Hill's career and life in detail from earliest days in the 1930s through achieving the Formula 1 Grand Prix Championship in 1961. The new material in the concluding chapter brings the reader up to date. As good a read now as then...maybe better.
Helen V Hutchings Copyright 2009 (speedreaders.info)

If you want to read a book that gives a good narrative of the great American race car driver Phil Hill then here it is. The book Ferrari a Champion's View, has been my favorite book of Phil Hill because of it's wonderful photographs by John Lamm and the interesting stories Phil reveals. Having said that, Phil Hill Yankee Champion goes into more depth into Phil's life of motor racing and his personal struggles towards becoming a Grand Prix champion. This addition of the book is also updated in both text and photographs.

This book was first published soon after Phil Hill won the Formula 1 championship in 1961 - the first American to do so with Mario Andretti being the only other. Hill also won LeMans three times for Ferrari. This edition adds to the original with coverage of the later portion of his career including disappointing post-Ferrari F1 rides with ATS and Cooper and more pleasant experiences racing sports cars for Ford, Aston-Martin and Chapparal. A very engaging story for "old school" racing fans as well as new ones.