page_title: Eddie Hill
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Eddie Hill / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Eddie waves to the crowd as he is towed back to the pits at Denver&#39;s Bandimere Speedway. Wife Ercie is riding brakes in the dragster. He was the 1993 NHRA Top Fuel champion and was the first driver into the 4 second bracket.Eddie &amp; Ercie 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: Hill is married to Ercie Hill. They met at a boat drag racing event and were married on Valentine's Day in 1984. She had several roles during his career, including team co-owner, starting line navigator, record taker, pit crew member, business manager, marketing, and public relations. She has written about drag racing in National Dragster, AutoWeek, and Christian Motorsports magazines. Eddie has a daughter named Sabrina and a son named Dustin.
caption: Eddie Hill waves to fans as his wife Ercie steers their dragster
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