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Graham Hill
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Pages: 272 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 1852604611
Pub: Patrick Stephens Ltd
Pub date: 1993-10-18
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 415960
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This is an excellent book, written by an excellent motor racing driver - Graham Hill.
His son Damon may well have written the forward to this reprint, but he is not the author.
A great read by a great driver (5/5 people found this helpful)
More than any other World Champion, Graham Hill worked hard to get to the top. He couldn't even drive until his mid-20s; after getting hooked by a couple of laps of Brands in an F3 car he scrimped, saved (and occasionally conned) his way into racing, constantly improving his technical and driving skills.
Graham is frank and funny about his early life - for once this is an autobiography that doesn't start with the beginning of his racing career, there being much about his childhood, Navy years, and apprenticeship.
He goes on to tell the story of his racing career from his debut in F3 (he led off the start line, and then wasn't quite sure what you did next...) to being hospitalised after his 1969 Watkins Glen accident.
Along the way there are various lewd and occasionally printable anecdotes - Graham did seem to spend more time three sheets to the wind dancing on tables with his trousers off than most modern F1 androids do! - but above all the story of a man determined to reach the top in his chosen sport by virtue of hard work and application of his brain to the task at hand.
Graham was a splendid raconteur and the easy, conversational style of the book makes it splendidly readable.
He's still missed to this day; this is a fine memoir of a true British Great.
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