On 29 December 1962 Graham Hill won his first Formula 1 title in East London, South Africa, on the Brm
When he started with four wheels, he was a mechanic. Before that, the biker. The sharp profile and thin moustache, always trimmed with meticulous care, were already there to shore up the ironic and intelligent expression on his face. Within a few years, he would become the Clark Gable of Formula One. Inimitable, that era, between the end of the Fifties and the beginning of the Sixties, for the world of engines, for the maximum formula with open wheels in particular. Fragility of the frames, primordial aerodynamics and at the same time an already monstrous engine power, in proportion. At a time when it was still legitimate to define “racers” those who descended into that combination of leather and icy metal that were the cockpits of single-seaters, without knowing it from the outset someone like Graham Hill embodied the advent of the generation of real pilots.