The final race day of the 2015 season marks a 40 year anniversary that rocked the F1 world, resulting in not only deaths of key F1 personnel, but removing a team from the grid. On 29th November 1975 Graham Hill, F1 double world champion, was killed when his plane crashed whilst coming in to land at the Elstree airfield in Hertfordshire, UK. In addition to himself, the crash killed 4 additional members of Hill's F1 motor racing team, Embassy Hill Racing, as they returned from testing for the 1976 season at the French Paul Ricard circuit. Along with Graham, Team Manager Ray Brumble, driver Tony Brise, mechanics Tony Alcock and Terry Richards and Designer Andy Stallman all perished in the...
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