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247
“First, the transmission is bad
”: Harster,
Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende
, 9–16.

247
“If the engine cooperates
”: Ibid.

247
“Now I know that under the same conditions
”: Ibid.

248
“If they only knew how tired I am
”: Elfriede Flossdorf interview, as quoted in Jörg-Thomas Födisch and Christian Dewitz,
Trips: Bilder eines Lebens
(Bonn: Köllen Druck+Verlag, 2000), 137.

248
“I slept three feet above the manure pile
”: Harster,
Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende
, 9–16.

248
“Now we'll start together
”: Ibid.

249
“There were so many people around
”: Ibid., 39. 249
“The calm comes over me
”: Ibid., 30.

249
“Doesn't it make a lovely noise?
”: “German Grand Prix,”
Autosport
, August 19, 1961.

250
“smiling happily to themselves
”: “XXIII German Grand Prix: Moss the ‘Ring-Meister,' ”
Motor Sport
, September 1961.

250
“Suddenly everything was wonderfully simple
”: Harster,
Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende
, 9–16.

251
“Seeing Moss is one thing
”: “XXIII German Grand Prix: Moss the ‘Ring-Meister,' ”
Motor Sport
, September 1961.

251
“When Hill went past me
”: Harster,
Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende
, 9–16.

252
“We drove for a little while
”: Ibid.

252
“We were both all over the road
”: Lamm,
Ferrari: Stories from Those Who Lived the Legend
136.

252
“It was a barrage of cameras
”: Harster,
Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende
, 42–50.

253
“I screwed it up
”: McDonough,
Ferrari 156 Sharknose
, 96.

II. P
ISTA
M
AGICA

256
“A mountain stream flows
”: Reinold Louis,
Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips
(Bonn: Greven Verlag, 1989), 395.

257
“I feel like a thousand eyes are on me
”: Hermann Harster,
Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende
(Berlin: Verlag Ullstein, 1962), 47.

258
“If I drive fast, I'm so calm afterwards
”: Ibid., 139–140.

258
“Every driver has a place deep inside
”: “Death in Auto Racing: It's Predictable,”
New York Times
, April 8, 1968.

258
“This could all end tomorrow
”: Robert Daley, interview with author, July 1, 2008.

259
“I love motor racing
”: William Nolan,
Phil Hill: Yankee Champion
(New York: G. P. Putnam, 1962), 202.

259
“Worse yet, nobody would believe me
”: John Lamm,
Ferrari: Stories from Those Who Lived the Legend
(St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 2007), 137.

260
“Everything's gone wrong with my car
”: “Last Race for Count Crash,”
Sports Illustrated
, September 18, 1961.

260
“Are you sure there isn't something wrong with your foot?
”: Tim Considine,
American Grand Prix Racing
(St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 1997), 94.

260
“Just change the damn engine
”: Ibid., 95.

261
“We may be teammates
”: “Last Race for Count Crash,”
Sports Illustrated
, September 18, 1961.

261
“a stumble to it
”: Considine,
American Grand Prix Racing
, 95.

262
“shifted sideways
”: “Von Trips; II Fans Killed,”
Los Angeles Times
, September II,1961.

263
“I didn't really want to go over
”: Eric Dymock,
Jim Clark: Racing Legend
(St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, 2003), 138.

264
“Ladies and gentlemen, dear listeners
”: Louis,
Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips
, 43.

264
“He lay there
”: Jörg-Thomas Födisch and Christian Dewitz,
Trips: Bilder eines Lebens
(Bonn: Köllen Druck+Verlag, 2000), 328.

265
“We have lost
”: Brock Yates,
Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine
(New York: Doubleday, 1991), 231.

266
“a warming relief
”: Ibid.

266
“He muttered something
”: Ibid.

266
“At the risk of seeming to be callous
”: “A Champion's Secret Thoughts,”
Sports Illustrated
, November 6, 1961.

266
“He knows that his victory has been so submerged
”: “Hill Finds Taste of Auto Racing Victory Bitter,”
New York Times
, September 12, 1961.

267
“I bow my head before him
”: “12 Killed in Italian Car Race,”
International Herald Tribune
, September 12, 1961.

267
“Easily and quickly he died
”: Harster,
Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende
, 139.

267
“There was a certain amount of guilt
”: “The Sad Hero,”
Motor Sport
, September 2001.

267
“it would be criminal to allow
”: “The Accident of the GP of Monza,”
Le Figaro
, September 12, 1961.

268
“fatigued and hollow-eyed
”: Yates,
Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine
, 233.

268
“It was an emotional moment
”: Ibid.

269
“For all the Germans
”: Nigel Roebuck,
Chasing the Title: Fifty Years of Formula 1
(Sparkford, UK: Haynes, 2000), 54.

269
“I have never experienced anything
”: “A Champion's Secret Thoughts,”
Sports Illustrated
, November 6, 1961.

270
“About you, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips
”: Harster,
Das Rennen ist nie zu Ende
, 141.

270
“I had felt it before
”: “A Champion's Secret Thoughts,”
Sports Illustrated
, November 6, 1961.

270
“I sensed, as we spoke
”: Ibid.

271
“He was slipping home
”: “The Thoughtful Champion,”
Autoweek
, August 19, 1991.

271
“I was really sick about that
”: “The Sad Hero,”
Motor Sport
, September, 2001.

271
“Not at all
”: Albert R. Bochroch,
Americans at Le Mans
(Tucson: Aztex, 1976), 82.

272
“Perhaps I am oversensitive
”: “A Champion's Secret Thoughts,”
Sports Illustrated
, November 6, 1961.

E
PILOGUE

273
“I don't know
”: Phil Hill,
Phil Hill: A Driving Life
(Phoenix: David Bull, 2010) 125.

274
“If this is how you feel
”: Mattijs Diepraam and Felix Muelas, “Angry at Laura,”
http://www.forix.com/8w/ats.html
.

275
“He said, ‘I'll make it'
”: Stirling Moss, interview with author, October 25, 2008.

275
“What are you going to do?
”: “A Bloody Go,”
Time
, May 4, 1962.

275
“He's pushing it
”: Ibid.

276
“Connie, vous étes une belle fille
”: Ibid.

276
“We must inevitably replace it
”: Enzo Ferrari,
My Terrible Joys
(London: H. Hamilton, 1963), 42.

277
“It will be a better car some day
”: “Ferrari: Race Cars Are His Life,”
New York Times
, August 19, 1962.

277
“I knew where I was psychologically
”: Brock Yates,
Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine
(New York: Doubleday, 1991), 234.

277
“Your great champion
”: “No Regrets,”
Motor Sport
, October 1994.

278
“There comes a time
”: “Sundown of a Champion,”
Saturday Evening Post
, May 8, 1965.

278
“I had a premonition
”: “The Winner Who Walked Away,”
Sports Illustrated
, March 24, 1976.

280
“Thank you heaven
”: “Obituaries: Phil Hill,”
Telegraph
(UK), September 4, 2008.

280
“They were mostly these big truck-driver types
”: “The Winner Who Walked Away,”
Sports Illustrated
, March 22, 1976.

280
“When he married Alma
”: Bruce Kessler, interview with author, January 24, 2010.

281
“He was very, very strange that night
”: Alma Hill, interview with author, January 26, 2010.

Index

Page numbers of photographs appear in italics.

Albert, Michele,
Ref1

Alfa Romeo,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3
,
Ref4
,
Ref5
,
Ref6
,
Ref7
,
Ref8

Scuderia Ferrari and,
Ref1

Allard automobile,
Ref1

Allison, Cliff,
Ref1

Argentine Grand Prix,
Ref1

Ascari, Alberto,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3
,
Ref4
,
Ref5
,
Ref6
,
Ref7
,
Ref8
,
Ref9
,
Ref10
,
Ref11
,
Ref12

Ascari, Antonio,
Ref1
,
Ref2

Aston Martin

DB3,
Ref1

Moss and,
Ref1

Austin-Healey,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3

Austrian Grand Prix (1964),
Ref1

Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS),
Ref1

Auto Union,
Ref1

Baghetti, Giancarlo,
Ref1

Bahamas,
Ref1

Ballard, J. G.,
Ref1

Baracca, Count Enrico,
Ref1

Baracca, Countess Paolina,
Ref1

Baracca, Francesco,
Ref1

Behra, Jean,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3
,
Ref4
,
Ref5
,
Ref6

Beinhorn, Elly,
Ref1

Belgian Grand Prix

1960,
Ref1

1961,
Ref1

Belgium,
Ref1
.
See also
Gendebien, Olivier

Bergman, Ingrid,
Ref1
,
Ref2

Bernartz, Hans-Willi,
Ref1

Bernhard, Prince of the Netherlands,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3

Beverly, Massachusetts,
Ref1

Beyl, Helmut,
Ref1

Bonetto, Felice,
Ref1

Bonnier, Joakim,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3
,
Ref4
,
Ref5
,
Ref6

Brabham, Jack,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3
,
Ref4

1961 German Grand Prix,
Ref1

Bracco, Giovanni,
Ref1
,
Ref2

Breeze, Bill,
Ref1

Breschi, Fiamma,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3

British Grand Prix,
Ref1

1958,
Ref1
,
Ref2

1961,
Ref1
,
Ref2

British Racing Motors (BRM),
Ref1
,
Ref2

Brooks, Tony,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3

Brousselet, Jean-Marie,
Ref1

Buenos Aires

1954,
Ref1

1956,
Ref1
,
Ref2

1958 season,
Ref1

Temporada,
Ref1

Cahier, Bernard,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3
,
Ref4
,
Ref5
,
Ref6
,
Ref7

Cahier, Joan,
Ref1

Caracciola, Rudolf,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3

Carrell Gardens, California,
Ref1

Carrera Panamericana,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3

1951,
Ref1

1952,
Ref1

1953,
Ref1
,
Ref2

1954,
Ref1

American vs. European cars in,
Ref1

fatalities,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3
,
Ref4

inaugural race,
Ref1

risks of,
Ref1
,
Ref2

spectator casualties,
Ref1

Cars at Speed
(Daley),
Ref1

Castellotti, Eugenio,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3
,
Ref4
,
Ref5
,
Ref6
,
Ref7
,
Ref8
,
Ref9

Castro, Fidel,
Ref1

Chapman, Colin,
Ref1

Chinetti, Luigi,
Ref1
,
Ref2
,
Ref3
,
Ref4
,
Ref5
,
Ref6
,
Ref7
,
Ref8

1953 Le Mans,
Ref1

1953 Reims 12-hour race,
Ref1

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