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
character athlete thinking
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.
sports children taken
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.
artist car track
I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas
athlete years careers
Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.
team giving next
After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is
athlete winning want
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.
dog funny-inspirational winning
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
damaging future history lose
If you lose the history of F1, that could be damaging to the long-term future of F1.
ending failure rather spending weeks
Failure should be nothing more than an embarrassment, like ending up in a gravel trap, rather than spending weeks in hospital.
ability badly best bit cars difficult driver drivers feeling fun motor offers pack problem racing suffer
When you get into a pack of cars, then you feel the problem worst, handicapping the driver and handicapping our ability to race. When there's a crosswind, the cars suffer badly as well, which makes them even more difficult to control. They are always fun to drive, but motor racing should be about the best drivers racing the best cars, which offers the best challenge, and my feeling now is that we have come to a bit of a cul-de-sac.
fairly learn means overcoming prepared setbacks slightly stronger ways
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.
general grow people primarily rural
Pipelines in general used to be located primarily in rural areas, but as populations and communities grow and develop, more people are nearby.
enjoyed great happier happiness happy race slow
I was happy in Hungary, but I would have been happier if it had been a great race where I'd come out on top-like at Spa, where I enjoyed myself. I really didn't enjoy myself in Hungary. It was more like slow torture.
enjoy
He didn't enjoy (Bahrain), it was patently obvious.