Hill began the ’95 season as team leader at Williams, and though he won four Grands Prix in the Renault-powered FW17, still finished 2nd in the points.
Photo: Pete Austin
Damon Graham Devereux Hill is the only son of a Formula 1 World Champion to have also won the title. His father, Graham, won the 1962 and 1968 championships and Damon the 1996.
The 1994 Grand Prix season outlook seemed bright for Williams with Senna coming aboard to partner Hill in the FW16-Renault. Photo: Williams
Never has a World Champion’s biography been more aptly entitled, however, than Damon’s From Zero to Hero. After Graham’s death in a 1975 flying accident, the Hill family were left in a difficult financial situation, so when Damon started work it wasn’t amid the glamor of the motor racing business but as a builder’s laborer and, later, a motorcycle courier to pay his way through school.
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