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...apologies are few and far between this year. With seven of the nine Grand Prix races that count toward a world racing title completed, the famous Hill-U.S. Racing Driver Phil Hill, who piloted his blood-red Ferrari to a world championship last year-is in fifth place, hopelessly out of the running. The new leader and likely champion is the other Hill, Britain's 33-year-old Graham Hill, who has 36 points and a virtually unassailable 15-point lead over his nearest competitor in the complex scoring system...
...clincher came last week in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, where Germany's daring Count Wolfgang von Trips flipped off the road last year, killing himself and 15 spectators. No accidents marred this year's race. Blasting his dark-green B.R.M. (for British Racing Motors) into the lead on the very first lap, Hill poured it on for 86 laps, hitting 180 m.p.h. on the straightaway, taking the corners with precision. At the finish, he was 30 seconds ahead of the No. 2 man, the U.S.'s Richie Ginther, in another B.R.M. Hill's average...
...took Hill just one year to win his first world championship point, in the 1958 Italian Grand Prix, where he drove a Lotus to sixth place. "That wasn't very difficult," he says. "Only six cars finished." In 1960, he went over to British Racing Motors, but B.R.M. hardly seemed the spot for an aspiring champion. Conceived as an answer to German (Mercedes) and Italian (Ferrari, Maserati) dominance of Grand Prix racing, the company built fast cars that blew up or broke down with embarrassing regularity...
High-Priced Sport. Buick's boss is not the only one with such hopes. For 1963 Oldsmobile has decked out its top model, the Starfire, with a sculptured T-bird-type roof to give it a sporty look. Pontiac's Grand Prix has undergone the same treatment. Not to be left out, Chrysler is readying its new 300}, a revved-up version of the Chrysler New Yorker...
...best sets is the British-made Scalextric, which costs $49.95 for more than nine feet of track, two variable-speed controllers and two sturdy cars (Grand Prix racers). Strombecker markets models of famous racecourses, has a $29.95 model including a D-Jaguar, a Ferrari Testa Rosa, and a Chicane obstacle strip that permits only one car to pass without risk of a crackup. The A. C. Gilbert Co. sells a figure eight of track with an overpass and two Corvettes for $29.98. Aurora's latest accessories include a lap counter, judge's stand and turnoff, starting gate, grandstand...