I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.

In 1968 when the club began a financial appeal to modernise its clubhouse Hill launched proceedings by driving an old Morris Oxford which had been obtained for £5 head-on into a boundary wall. The team used chassis from Shadow and Lola before evolving the Lola into its own design in 1975. Hill did not pass his driving test until he was 24 years old and he himself described his first car as "A wreck.

Norman Graham Hill OBE (15 February 1929 – 29 November 1975) was a British racing driver and team owner from England who was twice Formula One World Champion. Graham Hill died when the aeroplane he was piloting craGraham Hilld in foggy conditions near Arkley golf course in North London. Graham's grandson Josh Damon's son is also a racing driver.