{"id":334563,"date":"2009-02-20T22:24:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T22:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=334563"},"modified":"2025-01-10T21:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T21:27:22","slug":"my-greatest-race-graham-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/my-greatest-race-graham-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"My Greatest Race – Graham Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1965 Monaco Grand Prix – Graham Hill ‘s Greatest Race<\/h2>\n

By Graham Hill<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/span>The 1965 Monte Carlo was a race, which I have always considered to be one of the best races I have ever run or ever won. I did reasonably well in practice – I put up the fastest time and therefore, as I had won the race the two previous years, I was considered the favorite for the race that year. Now that is something I never really like to be – because everyone expects an awful lot of the favorite and it certainly raises the tension.<\/span><\/p>\n

Monte Carlo is always a tricky race, one of the trickiest circuits in the world, because it is so easy to be just a little bit untidy at any one particular corner, clobber a kerb with the wheel and break the suspension or break a wheel or cause yourself to spin off. And, of course, there is just nowhere to spin at Monte Carlo; you bounce off hotels, nightclubs, brick walls, telegraph poles, and street lamps. Everything around is absolutely solid, although we have managed to get a few Armco barriers set up at one or two spots which might prevent us from coming to a stop rather smartly.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n