Damon Hill: Full Biography
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is a British former racing driver and broadcaster who won the 1996 Formula 1 World Championship with Williams, and is one of only two sons of a World Champion to win the title himself.
The Late Starter Hill began racing motorbikes in 1981 and reached Formula 1 only at 31, after British Formula Three, Formula 3000 and testing for Williams. He raced for Brabham in 1992, starting two of the races he entered.
Williams and Schumacher Promoted to the Williams race seat for 1993, he won three times in his first season. He became the team’s lead driver after Ayrton Senna’s death in 1994 and took the championship to the final race, losing it by a single point when he and Michael Schumacher collided at Adelaide. He was runner-up again in 1995.
Champion, and Then Dropped Hill won eight of the sixteen races in 1996 and out-scored his rookie team-mate Jacques Villeneuve to take the title, but Williams had already decided to replace him. A difficult 1997 at Arrows followed, then Jordan, where he gave the team its first Grand Prix victory at Spa-Francorchamps in 1998. He retired after 1999.
