Ferrari Mailing List: Re: RIP Phil Hill

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

In 1966, at the Times Grand Prix at Riverside - and thanks to Bubba Willi, I 
had photog passes.  Jim Hall had the foresight to hire Phil to drive his 
Super Secret automatic transmissioned high wing Chaparral.  I am at turn 
one, a lazy left hand dog leg taken by those Grp 7 cars at sixty gazillion 
miles per hour - it had a slight bump caused by the infield tunnel - not 
unlike Indy which made the turn a bit hairy.  It was Friday practice and 
here comes Phil down the back stretch, into turn 9 and poooof - smoke and 
he's on fire!!  He manages to stop the car about at the pit exit and turn 1 
on the track.  Fire truck douse it, fire is out.  Phil is out of the car - 
not too much damage so it seems, so he gets down on his knees and is looking 
under the car when that long legged Texan Mr. Hall comes bounding up - he 
sees Phil (who doesn't know what makes these car work either) looking under 
Mr. Hall darling skirts - he says in a low voiced Texan drawl - Ahm payin 
you to drive this here car - NOT to be looking under it.  Imagine that - 
pretty uppity for a 31 year old entrepreneur with only 3 F1 grand Prix 
points to be talking to a World Champion, uh, employee.  heh heh
DOUG
PS - Now that's a real nice picture, Steve.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Jenkins" <steve [at] stevejenkins.com>
To: "DOUG" <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:10 PM
Subject: [Ferrari] RIP Phil Hill


> I had the pleasure of meeting him twice. Once in Seattle, and once at the
> Indy F1 race in 2000.
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> When I took this picture, I was walking by a trailer at the Seattle 
> historic
> races, and he was sitting all by himself on the steps a trailer. I walked
> over and said "Mr. Hill?" He was very nice, and we chatted for about 10
> minutes. I was shocked that nobody else around seemed to care who he was.
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> SteveJ


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