Damon Hill

Damon Hill was born in London, England on the 17th of September 1960. Damon Hills famous father died when he was fourteen but not letting it shatter his whole life he put lots of hard work and determination in to motorbikes.

He went to the Winfield racing school in France. In 1984 he was the 350cc Clubmans Champion. Hill gained a seat in Formula Ford and went from there to Formula 3 and 3000. Frank Williams spotted Damon and grabbed his chance to offer him a seat at Williams as a test driver in 1991. In 1993 he was to become the number two driver in the team where he won three races.

In 1994 Senna joined Williams and of course as we all know had the fatal accident at Imola. Hill was now the number one driver and won the Spanish and then the British grand prix. He continued to win four more races. This meant that the last race of the year would determine whether Damon or Michael Schumacher would win the World Championship. At the race they had a coming together and both cars retired. Schumacher had won the title by one point. In the same year Damon won the BBC sports personality of the year award. In 1995 with car problems and a few coming togethers with Michael Schumacher he managed four wins and another second place in the World Championship. In 1996 Damon won eight races and finally bagged himself the Championship (the only son of a World Champion to do so.)

Frank Williams controversially decided to replace Hill at the end of the season and so he went to Arrows. Against all the odds he got a second place - a very memorable race. For Damon's last two years he drove Jordan to their first ever win, again a race that will be remembered by Hill fans everywhere.

In 1999 Damon decided that he wanted the family life and his racing career ended right there.