HILL ON WINNING THE 1996 TITLE & GETTING DROPPED BY WILLIAMS

Damon Hill entered 1996 with two brutal seasons behind him and the fastest car on the grid. The 1994 campaign had been emotionally fraught—Ayrton Senna's death at Imola left Hill carrying Williams through the title fight. Then came 1995, which the article calls his personal nadir, a year that made even rookie David Coulthard feel like a harder proposition than expected. By the start of 1996, conditions were finally ripe. Williams was dominant. No more legends. Hill had the experience and the machinery.

This Formula1.com retrospective is Part 2 of a 30-year look-back. Part 1 covered the trauma of '94 and the low of '95. Part 2 tackles the championship season itself—which, the piece warns, would be "tumultuous in its own way." The headline gives away why: Hill won the title, then Williams dropped him anyway.