Phil Hill of Ferrari won his only Drivers' Championship after his teammate and rival Wolfgang von Trips was killed at the Italian Grand Prix, the penultimate race of the season. Ferrari won its first F1 manufacturers' title.1974 FIA Yearbook, grey section, pages 120–121 Hill was the first, and so far only American-born driver to win the World Championship, as the other American champion, Mario Andretti, was born in Italy.
