NIGEL ROEBUCK’S FORMULA ONE HEROES

and when Colin Chapman made the move into F1 one of his drivers was Graham Hill, who had made a name for himself in the company’s sportscars. For Hill, already 29, it had been a long slog to motor racing’s top echelon, and his first two seasons, with unreliable and largely uncompetitive cars, prompted him to accept an offer from BRM for 1960. Although that proved to be the breakthrough year for Lotus, the move to BRM was the right one for Hill. By 1962 the team was right there, and Graham’s first victory, at Zandvoort, was followed by three more, enough to bring his first world