Page 177 - Decadence

INSIDE TRACK
Phil Hill - Ferrari’s American World Champion His story - His photography
Inside Track is a series of biographical book offerings from the personal, original photographs taken by Phil Hill. America’s rst Formula 1 World Champion Driver, Phil Hill, driving for Ferrari, was a born motorcar enthusiast.
Throughout his front line career he knew them, loved them and he drove them blindingly fast with great mechanical sympathy.
To show “The Folks back home” where he had been, and what he had seen, he loaded his Leica M3 with colour-true Kodachrome lm and wielded it with outstanding artistry.
Steve Dawson, an Orange County based photographer worked with Phil at his home in Santa Monica over a time-span of many years, going through the 35mm slides Phil stored away in boxes. In Collaboration with acclaimed motorsport author, Doug Nye, a book titled “INSIDE TRACK”, a two volumed work which includes over 900 of Phil Hill’s photographs taken over the course of his career has been published.
Available in various formats from the bookshop edition to the leather bound, signed and numbered ‘Connoisseurs’ Edition priced at $2320.00 approx, This is the one we at Paddock- life would recommend and is high on our Christmas wish list, as it is limited to 200, we would be quick of the grid to obtain what is a beautiful book and a collectors edition.
Please visit www.philhill.com for more information and to place your order.
177