FORMULA ONE DRIVER WORLD CHAMPIONS - THE GREATS
Damon Hill
Damon Graham Devereux Hill was born 17th of September 1960.He is the son of Graham Hill, and, along with Nico Rosberg, one of only two sons of a Formula One World Champion to also win the Drivers Championship title.
He started racing on motorbikes in 1981, and after minor success moved on to single-seater racing cars. But although he progressed steadily up the ranks to the International Formula 3000 championship by 1989. Hill became test driver for the Formula One Williams team in 1992. He was promoted to the Williams race team the following year after Riccardo Patrese's departure and took the first of his 22-career victories at the 1993 Hungarian Grand Prix. During the mid-1990s, Hill was Michael Schumacher's main rival for the Formula One Drivers' Championship, which saw the two clash several times on and off the track. Their collision at the 1994 Australian Grand Prix gave Schumacher his first title by a single point. Hill became champion in 1996 with eight wins, but was dropped by Williams for the following season. He went on to drive for the less competitive Arrows and Jordan teams, and in 1998 earned Jordan their first Formula One win. Damon retired from the sport following the 1999 F1 season. |
F1 CAREER: 1992 - 1999
NATIONALITY: British
CHAMPIONSHIPS WON: 1
GRAND PRIX RACE STARTS: 115
RACE WINS: 22
PODIUMS: 42
POLE POSITIONS: 20
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