Eddie Hill (born March 6, 1936) is an American drag race rider who won many drag racing championships on land and water. Hill has a first run in the fourth span (4,990 seconds), which earned him the nickname "Four Fathers of Drag Racing." Other nicknames include "The Thrill", "Holeshot Hill", and "Fast Eddie". In 1960, he set the NHRA record for the greatest increase in the elapsed time (e.t.) as he drove a quarter mile in 8.84 seconds to break the previous 9.40s record.
Hill raced in open competition and Top Fuel event from 1955 until he retired in 1966. After opening a motorcycle shop, he returned several years later to motorcycle races. He started drag boat racing after attending a drag boat event in 1974 and he won the championship in all the main drag racing boat supervisory bodies. Hill set the record for the lowest wet time (e.t.) with a 5.16 seconds run, which was lower than the 5.3-second drag ground drag record. He quit water racing after he suffered a broken bone in an accident in Arizona and returned to ground drag racing in 1985. Initially underfunded and unsuccessful, Hill set an all-time speed record at the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) event in 1987, becoming the first person to hold a record of the speed of the soil and water simultaneously. In 1993, Hill became the oldest Top Fuel champion from NHRA. When Hill retired in 1999, he has won 12 national championship season points on land or water, and has won over 100 trophies on motorcycles and 86 drag events between his land and his water career.
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Racing career
In 1947, 11-year-old Hill won the Tri-State Motor Scooter Flat Track championship in Shreveport, Louisiana. After graduating from Longview High School, he graduated from college in 1957 with a degree in industrial technology from Texas A & amp; M University.
Landline drag
Hill entered his first drag race at the Flying Fish Lodge in Karnack, Texas in 1955. Hill drove his hot rod to the track and won the event. The hot rod has a Model T frame and an Oldsmobile V8 engine. In 1958, he built a second dragster using parts that his employer allowed him to scavenge while working as a sales engineer at a foundry in Wichita Falls, Texas. He used the dragster to set the low time that Texas state (e.t.) passed that year with 9.93 seconds of operand. The following year, Hill won the state championship by passing 9.25 seconds at a speed of 161 miles per hour (259 kilometers per hour). Hill won his first national event in 1959 in a Hot Gas race at the American Hot Rod Association (AHRA) national championship event in Great Bend, Kansas. Hill earned $ 500 for appearances in Inyokern, California for Jack Chrisman races and his Sidewinder dragster. One of his four operations in the 1960 event set a B/Gas drag record at 163.04 mph (262.39 km/h), so Hill quit his job to become a full-time drag racer. Later in that season he set A/Gas low e.t. at 8.84 seconds and set a speed record in the class at 161.29 mph (259.57 km/h).
Hill spent four months designing and seven months building another household called a double dragon. The machine has two engines, with each machine having its own ring gear and pinion, clutch, and driveshaft. He used four racing slick racecars in open competition for faster tracks, and two rear slicks in match competitions to produce smokier leaps. The engine ripped the starting line at Nationwide NHRA 1961 in Indianapolis. In 1962, Hill ran 202.70 mph (326.21 km/h) two years after Chris Karamesines had the first 200 mph (320 km/h) pass and two years before Don Garlits had the first official 200 mph (320 km/h) ride. Speed ​​or e.t. The record was the first official official after being supported by a different pass in one percent. Hill built his first Top Fuel dragster in 1963 using a Pontiac engine. He almost completed a jet-engined ultralight towing machine in 1963 when NHRA banned all aircraft engines. He built two more Top Fuel Hemi-powered dragsters before he started the engine at Green Valley Race City in 1966. "It's one of those fireballs you can not see," Hill said. "I lock the brakes, and I think I have to turn the wheel to the left, but for some reason, I do not, I have to do something contrary to intuition, and that scares me." Hill made her way down a tree-lined straight path. Hill has used Double Dragon to win the game, which is used to finance his Top Fuel dragster. The Double Dragon has been destroyed in an accident two months before this fire. The fire tapped his finances and his determination to drag the race.
Motorcycle racing
He stopped racing and opened a motorcycle dealer in Wichita Falls in 1966. The dealer is still open (in 2008), and is now the oldest Honda and Kawasaki dealer in Texas. He immediately wanted to race again, so he built his own motorcycle and started the race when he was 30 years old. He races in various types of motor racing: cross country, drag racing, horse race, motocross, street racing, and short tracks. When Hill participated in the Daytona race in 1971, he had an opening lap at 151 mph (243 km/h), which was faster than factory rider Gary Nixon. Hill continued to race motorcycles and in 1972 and won the country road racing championship of Texas. Hill won more than 100 trophies in his motorcycle career.
Boat drag racing
Hill attended his first drag boat racing event in 1974 in Austin, Texas. He thought the drivers were "crazy" after he saw a driver knocked off his boat when an accident occurred. Less than a month later, Hill had stopped motor racing to drag race vessels, although he could not swim. "Once I hit the water with a boat, I never went back to the motorcycle," Hill recalled. "Strength, speed, and acceleration are all the things I've missed since I stopped drag racing." He started racing on non-blown aircraft, winning in his first event. In the third race he set the top speed of the class. In 1975, he set the Southern Drag Boat Association (SDBA) speed record at 137.46 mph (221.22 km/h). In 1976, he switched to nitromethane fuel and set the SDBA record by running 171.81 mph (276.50 km/h). He is the main point pointer of SDBA and won the National Drag Boat Association (NDBA) World Fuel & amp; Gas Championship. He repeated as champion in both series in 1977, setting a NDBA record with a run of 170.45 mph (274.31 km/h).
Hill ran all airplane-fired airplanes from 1978 to 1984. He won 55 out of 103 races during that time. Hill won four American Drag Boat Association (ADBA) championships and became the top rated SDBA player in five consecutive years. In 1982, his Top Fuel-fueled aircraft reached 229.00 mph (368.54 km/h) at an NDBA event to set a world record for a quarter-mile water drag in Chowchilla, California. It's recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records, and it's not broken for 10 years. Hill also set the speed record that year at SDBA (220.76 mph), ADBA (215.82 mph), and International Hot Boat Association (IHBA) (212.78 mph). He became the only rider to hold the record in all four associations simultaneously. He won the NDBA Nationals four times including three straight from 1982 to 1984. In 1983 and 1984, Hill won the World Series Drag Boat Championship. The series features two races in each of the four main drag racing drag races. He won 17 races between 1983 and 1984, and made 29 of 34 finals. Before he came out of drag boat racing, he had a long time of 5.16 seconds in the middle of a wet quarter of a mile at Firebird Lake in Chandler, Arizona. The e.t. faster than the record-breaking NHRA Top 5.39 second fueled fuel Gary Beck, the first time that the record water is lower than the land records. Hill stopped boat racing in October 1984 after an accident at 217 miles per hour. "It's a perfect run," Hill recalled. "I started to return the boat to the water, and then take off." His Texas A & M rings were torn from his hands; he suffered seven fractures, concussion, & amp; eye injury. He spent five days in the hospital and did not fully recover for a year.
Return to drag the race
Hill decided to return to the drag race for 1985. He bought Fuel Top Dan Pastorini and saved the drag boat from the bottom of the lake. He joins one of Top Fuel's least and most competitive teams. Hill would stop at the start of the 1986 season if he did not get the tuning advice from a competitor that helped make his car more competitive. Fifteen races after returning, he finally came out of the first round at the 1986 Mile High Nationals. Hill made it to the finals of the competition, losing to Larry Minor when he lost after he was exhausted. In 1987 Chief Auto Parts Nationals, where he became runner-up, Hill set a NHRA record of 285.98 mph (460.24 km/h). Thus, he became the first person to hold the land and water dragon a quarter mile record of racing speed simultaneously.
Hill won the first of the thirteen NHRA national events when she defeated Joe Amato in the 1988 Mac Tools Gatornationals final. Amato and Hill met in the last four rounds of the season, with Hill winning three. On April 9, 1988, he set the first four seconds of the time (4,990 seconds) at the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Texas FallNationals in Ennis, TX. Hill ran only with seven cylinders; post-run computer readings show the cylinder # 7 failed at launch. Six months later, Hill recorded 4,936 seconds e.t. at the NHRA SuperNationals in Houston on October 9, 1988. Hill set the record for being the oldest Top Fuel champion when he won the season championship when he was 57 years old. It was his twelfth championship. Hill won six records from seven national events and 15 events overall. Hill finished in Top 10 on Top Fuel points for all but one year between 1987 and 1995. Between 1994 and 1999, Hill won his last two events in seven finals. When Hill won the 1996 Mile High Nationals, he made a record of winners of the oldest Top Fuel show at age 60. He retired in 1999.
Eddie continues to race competitively to this day (June 2017) at the age of 81 at an open wheel racing at Hallet Motor Speedway in Oklahoma.
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"Eddie Hill Rule"
Hill qualified for the 1997 event at Sonoma when his car suffered a severe tremor as he crossed the finish line. The car was out of control and totally destroyed. Hill has two broken toes and a bruised shoulder, which is not a serious injury. The run was fast enough to make Hill the fastest player, and Hill wanted to race his spare car in the first round the day after the accident. NHRA has a rule that the car used for qualification should be used in the event, so the sanctions body does not allow it to compete. Rules are changed after the event to allow race drivers on race day even if they do not use the same car.
Innovation
In 1960, he became the first rider to heat his rear tires with exhaustion and he was the first rider to use the smaller front tires on the dragster in 1958. Hill introduced the aerodynamic front wings to the dragsters and charcoal masks for driver safety.
Personal life
Hill is married to Ercie Hill. They met at a boat drag racing event and were married on Valentine's Day in 1984. He has several roles during his career, including team-mates, start-line navigators, record-takers, pit crew members, business managers, marketing, and public relations. He has written about drag races at National Dragster, AutoWeek, and Christian Motorsports magazine. Eddie has a daughter named Sabrina and a son named Dustin.
Awards
NHRA ranked him 14th on their Top 50 racers in 2001. He was inducted into NHRA Racing Hall of Fame in 1978, and Texas Motor Sports Hall of Fame in 2007. In 2000, he was inducted at Don Garlits International Drag Racing Fame. Hill was inducted into the Hall of Fame of America Motorsports in 2002. After she was told of the nomination, she said
"It's much more rewarding to get this award now than posthumously.This way I'll be able to enjoy it.But honestly, it was a sad time when they called and told me that I was being inducted along with some people I admired most of growing up It gives you a reason to pause and reflect that there may be good things to be achieved along the way. "
In 1988, Hill was selected by Car Craft magazine, Hot Rod Magazine, and the International Hot Rod Association as Person of the Year. Readers of Car Craft magazine chose him as the Largest Fuel Driver of the Year after he won the 1993 championship.
References
External links
- Fun Cycle Eddie Hill
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