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Damon Hill

Watching the Wheels

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2016 marks the twentieth anniversary of Damon Hill's coronation as Formula One World Champion. For the first time ever he tells the story of his journey through the last golden era of the sport when he took on the greats including Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher and emerged victorious as World Champion in 1996, stepping out of the shadow of his legendary father Graham Hill.
Away from the grid, Watching the Wheels: The Autobiography is an astonishingly candid account of what it was like to grow up as the son of one of the country's most famous racing drivers. It also tells the unflinching story of dealing with the grief and chaos that followed his father's tragically early death in an aircraft accident in 1975, when Damon was 15 years old.
Formula One drivers have always been aware of their mortality, and the rush that comes with the danger of racing was as intoxicating for Hill as it had been for his father's generation, until he came face-to-face with…
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  • bblbrxhas quoted4 years ago
    George Harrison died in 2001 on the same date as my father: 29 November. I wish I could have spent more time with him. He had a lot to teach all of us, not least that all things must pass. Barry Sheene died in 2003. He used to phone me up at ridiculous hours of the morning from Australia, just to say hello. I loved these guys. They had a knowledge about life: that it is a fleeting thing that will be gone before we know it. They were of the same tribe as my father and they left the world a better place for having been here. I am privileged and honoured to have been able to call them my friends.
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    • bblbrxhas quoted4 years ago
      It must have been the most terrible feeling for Sid, dealing with the friend he had previously tried to persuade to stop racing. As soon as he opened the helmet visor it was obvious to him that Ayrton had suffered a severe head trauma because part of the right-front suspension of the car had penetrated the helmet. Sid knew, but then had to go through the procedures that Ayrton himself had helped him conduct on Donnelly in 1990. I can only imagine his heartbreak and distress, having to cope with two fatalities in two days. To Sid they were just boys.
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      • bblbrxhas quoted4 years ago
        My last race in F3 was the Cellnet Super Prix at Brands Hatch. The race itself was a disaster, but that’s not why I was in tears during the slowdown lap. I cried because I thought I might never do this again.
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