Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Hill ya fara tuki na cikakken lokaci don ƙungiyar Ferrari Formula One a cikin 1959, yana samun podium sau uku da matsayi na huɗu a Gasar Drivers. A shekarar 1960 ya lashe gasar Grand Prix ta Italiya
a Monza, nasarar farko ta Grand Prix ga direban Amurka a kusan shekaru arba'in (ban da Indianapolis 500, da zarar wani ɓangare na Grand Prix World Championship series), tun lokacin da Jimmy Murphy ya lashe gasar Grand Prix ta Faransa a 1921. Wannan kuma ya zama nasara ta ƙarshe ga motar da ke gaba a cikin Formula 1. A kakar wasa ta gaba, Hill ya lashe Grand Prix na Belgium kuma tare da tsere biyu da suka rage sai kawai abokin aikinsa na Ferrari Wolfgang von Trips a cikin jerin abubuwan da suka faru. Hatsari a lokacin gasar Grand Prix ta Italiya ya kashe von Trips da 'yan kallo goma sha huɗu. Hill ya lashe tseren kuma ya lashe gasar amma nasarar ta kasance mai dadi. Shawarwarin Ferrari na rashin zuwa Amurka don zagaye na karshe na kakar ya hana Hill damar shiga tseren gidansa a Watkins Glen a matsayin sabon zakara na Duniya. Lokacin da ya dawo a kakar wasa ta gaba, ta karshe tare da Ferrari, Hill ya ce, "Ba ni da bukatar tsere sosai, don cin nasara. Ba ni da yunwa sosai. Ba na son in kashe kaina".