Sports Cars

Phil Hill had a varied career, driving a wide range of sports and formula cars and for a long list of teams. In the mid-sixties, Hill became associated with the Ford motorsports efforts, helping develop the famed GT 40 series and racing Daytona Coupes similar to the one in this Kane Rogers painting. In 1999, Phil and son Derek teamed up in a Daytona Coupe at the Goodwood Revival Meeting with Derek  staging a remarkable charge through the field in the Tourist Trophy reenactment.

Phil, Alma, Derek and Vanessa Hill at Laguna Seca, 1997 after Derek had won the Barber Dodge Pro Championship. Rick Dole photo.

The Son Also Races

And wins. Derek Hill surprised his parents by leaving college and announcing that he wanted to try his hand at racing. This in the face of absolutely no encouragement from his parents. "Motorsports can be a crazy world and we didn't want to push our son into it", says the elder Hill.

But Derek proved that the talent was passed to the younger generation in the Hill family. In only his third season of racing, Derek clinched the ultra competitive Barber Dodge Pro racing series in 1997. Here father and mother Alma congratulate Derek after winning the championship at Laguna Seca.