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Graham Hill hopes we will look back on this age as one of positive change.

Question: How will this age be remembered?

Graham Hill: Well hopefully it’ll be remembered as when we woke up; and when we really started turning on the jets and making the changes; and how we avoided what could have been a terrible situation.

Recorded on: Oct 16, 2007

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