page_title: Eddie Hill
section_title: Motorcycle racing
hierarchical_section_title: Eddie Hill / Racing career / Motorcycle racing
caption_attribution_description: w:Eddie Hill, the hall of fame drag racer, during the time when he raced motorcycles, Green Valley 1973Eddie Hill
context_page_description: Eddie Hill is a retired American drag racer who won numerous drag racing championships on land and water. Hill had the first run in the four second range, which earned him the nickname "Four Father of Drag Racing." His other nicknames include "The Thrill", "Holeshot Hill", and "Fast Eddie". In 1960, he set the NHRA record for the largest improvement in the elapsed time when he drove the quarter mile in 8.84 seconds to break the previous 9.40-second record.
  Hill raced at open competitions and Top Fuel events from 1955 until he retired in 1966. After opening a motorcycle shop, he returned several years later to race motorcycles. He started racing drag boats after attending a drag boat event in 1974 and he won championships in all of the major boat drag racing sanctioning bodies. Hill set the lowest wet elapsed time record with a 5.16-second run, which was lower than the land drag racing record of 5.39 seconds. He quit water drag racing after he suffered broken bones at a crash in Arizona and returned to land drag racing in 1985.
context_section_description: He stopped racing and opened a motorcycle dealership in Wichita Falls in 1966. The dealership is still open (as of 2008), and it is now the oldest Honda and Kawasaki dealership in Texas. He soon wanted to race again, so he built his own motorcycle and began racing as a 30-year-old. He raced in numerous types of motorcycle racing: cross country, drag racing, hare scramble, motocross, road racing, and short track. When Hill participated in a 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 Texas state road racing championship. Hill won over 100 trophies in his motorcycle career.
caption: Hill racing a motorcycle in 1973
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