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F1 video: Super 8 footage of the 1968 Monaco Grand Prix


Slip into a deep bath filled with bubbles of nostalgia…

Enjoy this terrific footage, shot on Super 8, of the 1968 Monaco Grand Prix. Watch out for a star turn by Graham Hill, possibly the most debonair sportsman in the history of debonair sportsmen.

FAVOURITE MOMENT: 2min 53sec into the video, check out the amazing level of track safety.

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F1 fashion crimes: Damon Hill at Monaco, 1992


Hill Jnr, not as elegant as his late dad

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Hill must be one of the geekiest men ever to win a drivers’ championship, as this photo effortlessly proves. Naff deck shoes matched with white sports socks… and chino shorts! Good god, can this really be the son of the great Graham Hill (who in the 1960s was the second most stylish man on the planet, behind David Niven only)?

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Posted: May 20th, 2008 by Ollie Irish