{"id":77,"date":"2009-02-15T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T00:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2009-02-15T16:48:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T00:48:32","slug":"commemorating-graham-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/15\/commemorating-graham-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating Graham Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_82\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jimculp\/2526326035\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/graham-hill-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Graham Hill in the Lotus 49\" title=\"Graham Hill, Lotus-Ford\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-82\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graham Hill in the Gold Leaf Team Lotus 49 at the 1968 German Grand Prix. Photo by <a href='http:\/\/prorallypix.com\/'>ProRallyPix<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today is the 80th anniversary of the birth of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graham_Hill\">Graham Hill<\/a> (February 15, 1929 \u2013 November 29, 1975), a two time Formula 1 World Champion and the only man to win the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Triple_Crown_of_Motorsport\">Triple Crown of Motorsport<\/a>. He drove for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Team_Lotus\">Team Lotus<\/a> for three seasons including the 1968 season where he pulled the team around him to win the championship after the untimely death of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Clark\">Jim Clark<\/a>. He was also the father of the 1996 F1 World Champion <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Damon_Hill\">Damon Hill<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sDTVe6pNv4s&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>His notable victories include:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Formula_One_World_Drivers%27_Champions\">Formula 1 World Champion<\/a> (1962, 1968)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indianapolis_500\">Indianapolis 500<\/a> (1966)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/24_Hours_of_Le_Mans\">24 Hours of Le Mans<\/a> (1972)<br \/>\n5 wins at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monaco_Grand_Prix\">Monaco Grand Prix<\/a> (1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BRDC_International_Trophy\">BRDC International Trophy<\/a> (1962, 1971)<\/p>\n<p>[thanks to ms355 on LotusTalk for the video pointer]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 80th anniversary of the birth of Graham Hill (February 15, 1929 \u2013 November 29, 1975), a two time Formula 1 World Champion and the only man to win the Triple Crown of Motorsport. He drove for Team Lotus for three seasons including the 1968 season where he pulled the team around him &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/15\/commemorating-graham-hill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Commemorating Graham Hill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[213,237,550],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqLPi-1f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}