2026 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Damon Hill’s 1996 World Championship. To mark Hill’s achievement, Formula1.com Senior Editor Greg Stuart speaks to the person himself in a two-part characteristic about conquering the F1 world, defying his critics and coping with the game’s final rejection, at the same time as he was en path to the crown…
Thirty years in the past, Damon Hill was topped System 1 World Champion.
To those that know just a little, however not quite a bit, of the Hill household historical past, that won’t appear so stunning. Hill was, in any case, the son of F1 royalty, within the type of two-time champion Graham Hill – so that you may be forgiven for pondering that a lifetime of privilege and a Rolodex of F1 contacts had, by 1996, landed Hill within the mighty, title-winning Williams FW18, the strongest automobile in that season’s discipline by a long way.
