A few years in the past, Graham Hill’s associates and admirers privately nervous when he insisted on carrying on as an F1 driver going into the 1973 season.
He had proved himself time and time once more to be a really fast driver who might get the job carried out. Again in 1962 he had emerged as Jim Clark’s strongest rival and received that yr’s World Championship.
Poignantly, he did it once more in 1968, carrying the shattered Lotus crew on his shoulders after the Scot’s loss of life that April.
