Damon Hill
Damon Hill
Damon Graham Devereux Hill, OBEis a British former racing driver. He is the son of Graham Hill, and is the only son of a Formula One world champion to win the 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, and was often competitive, he never won a race at that level...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth17 September 1960
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.
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I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas
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Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.
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After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
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You learn by experience, and overcoming setbacks make you stronger and means you are prepared for any eventuality. Now I am who I am, slightly batty in some ways, but in other ways fairly level-headed.
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This is not normal for an operator to have so many incidents in such a short amount of time.
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This is out of the ordinary. We took this action because we wanted to get the operator to focus on exactly what could be going wrong.
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The whole experience is rising to the challenge every time. You never know what might happen. You might be talking to the future world champion.
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Pipelines in general used to be located primarily in rural areas, but as populations and communities grow and develop, more people are nearby.
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He didn't enjoy (Bahrain), it was patently obvious.
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I nearly won the British Grand Prix in 1993, but missed out when the engine gave up on me. That moment was one of sheer disappointment.