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Ferrari experimental model 2,766.454 miles at an average speed of 115.268 m.p.h. during the long day and night's racing over the 8.3-mile circuit 117 miles southwest of Paris. Sharing his seat with Belgian Co-Driver Olivier Gendebein, Hill was in easy command for most of the race, at one point set a new lap record of 126.750 m.p.h. for the course, then settled down to nurse a sick clutch, which meant driving in fourth gear for the last six hours. At the finish. Hill's nearest competitor was five laps and 42 miles behind, giving...
...Martin, hoping to con the whole team of Ferraris into giving chase. Last year this stunt made wrecks of the bright red Italian cars; they burned out before they really got into the race. This year California's Phil Hill and his co-driver, Belgium's Olivier Gendebein, played it smart: they kept their 3-liter Ferrari well back in the pack. And they saw the field thin rapidly as they nursed their car along. Last year's winning Jaguars, their engines cut down to meet the new 3-liter limit, began to fail after 15 minutes...
Through all the downpour, Hill and Gendebein and their Ferrari managed to stay out of trouble, and slowly they worked into the lead. At the end, none of the competition was really close. Hill finished the race after covering 2,549 miles in 24 hours at an average speed of 106.21 m.p.h. He had beaten the second-place Aston Martin by 100 miles. If the worst weather and the worst track conditions in the memory of Le Mans veterans had kept him from a speed record, Phil Hill had still set a record with which he was more than satisfied...
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