The Embassy Hill Formula 1 race car.

The Embassy Hill Formula 1 race car. At the end of the 1972 racing season Graham Hill realised that it was getting harder and harder for him to get a decent ride in Formula 1. Graham Hill who was a double Formula 1 Champion and winner of the Indy 500 was not quite ready to hang up his helmet. At age 43 he formed his own team and bought a F-1 Shadow and with sponsorship from Embassy he raced as a constructor. His next step was to have Lola build a car for him using the standard Cosworth Ford. These he called Hill-Lola's. These cars were based upon the Lola T370 and some features of the Formula 5000 Lola, this car turned out to be on the heavy side and bulky. Graham then turned to designed Andy Smallman to build a new car. The new car was based upon the Lola but bit by bit it became the Hill GH-1 and a genuine Hill. The Hill was driven by Graham Hill and Rolf Stommelen with mixed to poor results. In the Spanish Grand Prix Rolf Stommelen had an accident when his car lost its down force and left the track and four people were killed and Rolf was seriously injured. Graham replaced the injured Stommelen with Tony Brise and he finished the season with a well deserved 6th place in Sweden.Every thing came to an end on a November day in 1975 when the plane piloted by Graham Hill and carrying Andy Smallman and Tony Brise crashed in the fog north of London.The car you see here is a Hill GH-3 driven by Chris Ronson at the "Hero's of Speed" last month at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah.