Damon Hill - F1 World Champion 1996 - BBC Documentary

[@szczecom8467]

It was so emotional watching Damon's Mom talking about him winning the championship. Well deserved for Damon and for Hills family - a hattrick of Championships

[@adambollons4003]

Imagine making your F1 debut at 32, having no karting experience, no real financial backing, carrying the pressure of a famous name... and then going on to become world champion. This won't happen in F1 again. If you're a Hill fan or not, these are facts you have to acknowledge and respect the man.

[@Cabarkin]

How good would Hill have been if he had progressed throughout the racing ladder like everybody else through karting and junior racing? We'll never know.

[@lucaslaino7292]

I come here instead watching schumacher netflix documentary.long life to damon. A gentleman like his father

[@kidmillion2552]

Damon is one of nature’s true gentlemen

[@Looshbaby]

Very underrated

[@johnstewart6746]

Damon should be 2 times champion but loved the day he took his crown

[@Arfabiscuit]

The greatest sports intro ever Fleetwood macs the chain as used by the bbc when it covered F1

[@mrkipling2201]

I totally agree. It used to get you in the right mood for watching the Grand Prix.

[@dbcooper9584]

He showed nice people can win too

[@akarilotube]

Damon is awesome! Great personality, humble.

[@MeteCanKarahasan]

Plus, he is a true sport.

[@EdwardBevins]

Frank Williams disagrees with you fanboys

[@mrkipling2201]

Nigel Mansell is my favourite racing driver ever, but I was pleased when Damon finally won the World Championship, after 2 seasons of coming 2nd to one of the best drivers ever in Michael Schumacher. Every time I watch the Adelaide incident in 1994, it seems more like a genuine racing incident, instead of Schumacher deliberately taking Damon out of the race and ensuring that Michael won the World Championship. I thought he did it deliberately when I was watching the race live on television, and for quite a few years afterwards.

[@DarthSparhawk]

Great man and great champion. Sometimes, nice guys finish first.

[@LDis1]

Damon Hill is actually underrated if you ask me. He beat Michael Schumacher on several occasions.

[@kevinprior3549]

Just look at 1997 Hungarian GP... says it all about him

[@annoyingwheels975]

Download his audiobook, it’s incredible. I thought it was an easy ride for him because of his name . I was totally wrong, he fought his way to the top and beat the best

[@HamsterSport]

I wish he could have had a real F1 career from an earlier age. He could have been greater than Mansell. He was in his late 30's when he won his championship in '96 and that's an age where most drivers are considered to be losing their edge. To be able to consistently take the fight to a young Michael Schumacher in his prime speaks volumes about Damon's natural talent. A shame he only got his shot late on for sure but he delivered in the end and that's what counts!

[@thrillathakilla]

I agree. No one really knew how successful Schumacher was going to be. What he managed to achieve despite being a late starter in motor racing is really incredible. Its just a shame the cars he drove after Williams were not Championship winning standard

[@HamsterSport]

@@thrillathakilla Indeed his career followed the natural path once he reached F1. Win the title in a top team and then let your career wind down in the slower teams. If he had been there 5 years earlier I have no doubt he could have been a triple world champion with how strong the Williams cars were. This is providing history took its course and Senna still met his tragic fate. If Ayrton had lived we would have more than likely seen him on top from '94 until '96 at least with '97 an added bonus if he still had the wind in his sails which, if Villenueve in his 2nd season can beat a double world champion in Schumacher, Ayrton would have sailed through that task. It hurts me sometimes to speculate on what could have been so I try to avoid it.

[@sen5908]

In the loft I've got the whole 1996 season on VHS tape, I recorded it live from the BBC

[@paulcookies]

Damon Hill is an amazing guy.

[@anthonymann2061]

also how come noone mentions the sheer balls to get back into the williams at imola after watching the sister car crash at tamberello. I remember watching the race that day wishing he wouldnt get back in the car until they knew why. But Spa 1998 showed he was truelly one of the greats.

[@sen5908]

Very very underated driver, if you think of the route Damon made to F1 it was nothing like other drivers, and I also think frank Williams realised his mistake letting him go, Frentzen was nowhere near as good !

[@andrewcorbett5729]

When f1 rocked

[@michaelheath3609]

Will always remember the day Damon finally became World Champion. Had Schumacher not deliberately took him out the season before he could have been a two time champ. One of Britain's greatest sporting moments of the last century.....👌

[@marcushogan6613]

*2 seasons before. Also you could argue that had he had a less scrappy 1995 then Williams wouldn't have dumped him and he may have also won the 97 title. Such a nice guy, one title or three I've always had great time for Hill

[@henrygandy3883]

I remember seeing Damon in the FW16 on the banking at Monza in 92 in the background of a Mansell ESPN interview for the first time immediately recognized the helmet...had never heard of him.

[@composedlight6850]

morally a double World Champ

[@HamsterSport]

@@marcushogan6613 I'll never forgive Williams for what they did. They were dodgy with a few drivers. Mansell got screwed by them, Damon got screwed by them, Ayrton was vetoed out of being offered a contract with them for 1993. They were successful in those years 1991-1997 but you can be successful without being disloyal and cutthroat. Damon galvanised the team in 1994 and almost won a title in his second season before being taken out, and in 1995 had a string of bad luck and that was Williams' excuse to drop him for 1997. Serves them right that he took the #1 away from the team with him and they haven't had the chance to use it since.

[@HamsterSport]

To follow on, they had that form with employees too. Adrian Newey was screwed by them in the end and he left for McLaren and it's safe to say the Williams team felt that one. I'm not taking anything away from the team's achievements. They achieved a lot and showed great determination, but I have always struggled to fully respect a team if they show repeatedly in their actions that they aren't completely worthy of that respect. Red Bull spring to mind with some of their behaviour with drivers, and Ferrari are another team who really screwed over their drivers and they still do it to this day to their own undoing. They believe they are bigger than the sport. Williams were not guilty of this but they are almost in that same vein. Anyway, rant over, I'm not trying to be controversial, I just felt like the home truth needed saying.

[@StefanoMassari]

Go DAMON

[@rmkw4291]

Even by 1996 Nigel Mansell had got rid of his usual moustache in his post F1 career.

[@jamesmiller3142]

Brilliant. Thanks

[@kevinprior3549]

RIP Sir Frank

[@rehabdrew7626]

Sir Frank deserves no praise. He treated both Mansell & Hill with absolute contempt. Disgusting man & happy to see him & his team in the dust! Let's not even get started on his oversight of lies in Sennas death!

[@t3hgir]

@@rehabdrew7626 I'm feeling that your comment is kinda based.

[@EdwardBevins]

​@@rehabdrew7626I don't blame Frank Damon cost the team a driver's championship in 1994, but yeah Michael Schumacher took him out 🤡

[@kevinprior3549]

​@@rehabdrew7626 It was his poor 1995 form that persuaded Williams to choose Frentzen over Hill for 1997.

[@kevinprior3549]

D Hill's White 0 was a perfect replacement for Mansell's Red 5.

[@azapro911]

When confident and focused, he could take on and beat anyone, including Schumacher.

[@SELondoner75]

True great, still got my Damon Hill books and VHS video's, Fight for Victory & of course my framed Tribute picture !!!! I got in to F1 early 90s (Hill,Schumacher, Senna,Mansell etc) but Hill and Schumacher my all time favourite, followed by Irvine, Coulthard. Sadly F1 so boring now !!!

[@lucaslaino7292]

Mansell and then hill.imagine that.tremendous

[@MrDannyboyhall]

I couldn’t stand Damon when he was battling Michael for world championships he kinda came across like a complete whinge but after he left Williams I started to really like him as I learned of the man behind what we got to see on race weekends I now feel bad for disliking him back then as he is just a lovely person all round

[@MrJoromekiq1]

Schumacher is undoubtedly one of F1's greatest, but his 1st title was shameful. First his team uses banned electronics in the 1st half of the season, then he deliberately hits Hill's car in the last race

[@Trueenglishgent1]

No one but the British public got behind Damon which is such a shame as Damon is one of the most underrated F1 drivers of all time , as on his day he had the measure of the cheater Schumacher and very dishonest Benetton team . It still brings a tear to my eye when I see him lift that trophy at Suzuka and still is my all time favourite.

[@lucaslaino7292]

I remeber in spa in 1998 je won leading over a tremendous rain. He did awesome that day. He fought schumacher with a honda engine that was an average one back then. I had to knew more about him and im glad to research that. Damon is incredible

[@mnztr1]

I was over the moon when Damon won. It was magic, only ruined by the appalling behavior of the Williams team. Both with Damon and Nigel. Just do not get it. Both were immensely quick and popular with the fans. I laughed so hard at the HHF debacle.

[@kevinprior3549]

Who had have thought that Britain had to wait 12 years after D Hill for another British champion....in Hamilton. Then came along two at once in Button. Now Hamilton is spoiling us Brits

[@Stimor]

hill and button are indeed legends

[@SLqB11]

Hamilton is dirty hypocrite piece of shit. Dirty driver. Cant be compared to Hill

[@Merc140497]

@@SLqB11 Dirty driver how?

[@benjaminsidneykidd-bentley3966]

Bloody Wiliams, disgusting, what is it about getting a world record then they kick the champions out. First Mansell then Hill

[@tkah1564]

They had the best car anyone would of become champion 🏆 driving their car

[@andrewwright4195]

@@tkah1564 so what u still have to win Michael Schumacher only won in 93 because of his car and 94 Michael Schumacher knocked him out of the road

[@tkah1564]

@@andrewwright4195 Michael doesn't need a good car Ferrari didn't win for 20 years till Michael came around

[@lucaslaino7292]

@@tkah1564 you mean ross braun came out.without ron,schumacher was nothing

[@tkah1564]

@@lucaslaino7292 then why Michael was the highest paid driver?? Why did he paid him 20 mil a year if he was nothing??

[@andrewrcmadwilkinson6999]

jj letho dominated the f3 championship in 1988 but what did he do compared to damon

[@mrkipling2201]

Stalled on the grid at Imola in 1994, which caused Pedro Lamy to crash into the back of his car, injuring 8 people in the crowd. Just one of a number of horrible crashes, 2 fatal, that weekend.

[@anthonymann2061]

why the hell has damon not been given and knighthood. He's been one of our greatest sportsmen , displayed the best of British in terms of behaviour, contributed for charity for real reasons as opposed to some who do it for the PR. We give awards to people in the post office but not to great heroes like him. All it does is just undermine the concept of knighthoods. Fortunately Lewis and Jackie were awarded [on merit] . But why has Damon and [GEORGE BLOODY HARRISON} never got a knighthood. Reply

[@audreyperrin320]

My nephew met him when he was living in Ireland he was very rude to him he asked him to sign a photo for me as I liked him he told him to go away and he said to leave him alone I know we all can have a bad day but my nephew was only about 10 and he made him cry I went off him after that

[@kevinprior3549]

Nico Rosberg became the 2ND son of a world champion to be world champion (sadly)

[@lucaslaino7292]

Why sadly? He won in good terms