The Lotus presence in Formula One World Championship allowed Graham Hill to make his debut at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix.
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Norman Graham Hill was a British racing driver and team owner, born on 15 February 1929 in Hampstead, London. Hill attended Hendon Technical College and joined Smiths Instruments as an apprentice engineer. Hill was the runner up on three occasions (1963, 1964 and 1965). Despite not passing his driving test until 1953 when he was already 24 years of age, and only entering the world of motorsports a year later, Hill would go on to become one of the greatest drivers of his generation.
Hill joined Team Lotus as a mechanic soon after but quickly talked his way into the cockpit. The Lotus presence in Formula One allowed him to make his debut at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix, retiring with a half shaft failure. In 1960, Hill joined BRM, he won also in that year on 8 May 1960 the Targa Florio in the class Sports 1600 together with a German driver Edgar Barth in a Porsche 718, and won the world championship with BRM in 1962.
The British driver was Married to Beete Shubrook. The couple got married in 1955. Hill had spent all his money on his racing career, so Bette had to pay for the wedding. They had two daughters, Brigitte and Samantha, and a son, Damon, who himself later became Formula One World Champion. The family lived in Mill Hill during the 1960s. The house now features an English Heritage blue plaque. During the early 1970s, Hill moved to Lyndhurst House in Shenley in Hertfordshire.
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Bette Shubrook Hill was born on June 12, 1926 in Newton, New Hampshire, USA. Shubrook married Hill in 1955. They had two daughters, Brigitte and Samantha, and a son, Damon Hill. Bette was the first lady of F1 who was the wife of one world champion and mother of another. One of four girls born to a cricketer who also worked for The Times, and a mother who was ambitious for her children in the proper way.
Bette and her sisters were achievers, and she understood the competitive imperative. One played piano, another was a champion school swimmer, the third was also sporting, and Bette herself rowed for Britain. Hill met his future wife Bette at a Boxing Day party at Auriol and, while courting her, he also coached her clubmates at Stuart Ladies’ Rowing Club on the River Lea. She died on December 8, 2017 in the UK.
