It was exactly 40 years ago that Graham Hill, and several members of his racing team, lost their lives in a plane crash, returning home from a test at Paul Ricard. By that time, Hill had already hung up his helmet to focus on managing his fledgling team but he could look back on a fantastic 20-year driving career. As versatile as he was quick, he remains the only driver to have won the Monaco Grand Prix, the Indy 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. His breakthrough season came in 1962, when he used BRM's P578 to great effect. Powered by a high-revving V8 engine and built as light and compact as possible, the new-for-1962 BRM was competitive straight out of the box, and instantly recognisable by the stack-pipe exhausts used early in its career. Hill used it to score his first ever Grand Prix victory at the P578's Dutch Grand Prix debut. With a further three victories that year, Hill secured both the drivers' and constructors' World Championship. In 1964, the P578 was driven to two further wins. As a tribute to Graham Hill, we have today taken a detailed look at the BRM P578 with a 56-shot gallery of three different examples, including 'Old Faithful', which Hill used to score three of his four wins in 1962.
As mentioned above, Hill was very versatile and his style was particularly suited to sports car racing. He underlined that with the Maranello Concessionaires Ferrari 330 P, which he drove to victory in the 1964 Tourist Trophy at Goodwood and in the Paris 1000 km at Monthlery. Hill also finished second overall that year behind a sister Ferrari.
On Saturday, at the annual Audi Sport Finale in Munich, the German manufacturer introduced the R18 e-tron quattro due to be used in 2016. A new type name would have been very appropriate as the latest R18 boasts a completely redesigned aero-package. The dramatic design of the car is closer than ever before to that of a single seater with a canopy and fenders. The new R18 e-tron quattro also boasts a revised hybrid system, which now uses lithium-ion batteries to store energy instead of the flywheel used in the previous R18s.

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1962 BRM P578 - Images, Specifications and Information

1964 Ferrari 330 P - Images, Specifications and Information

2016 Audi R18 e-tron quattro - Images, Specifications and Information