Thirty years on, Damon Hill's 1996 championship still carries an asterisk in some minds—not for what he did, but for who his father was. Graham Hill won two titles; Damon had the Williams FW18, the class of the field. Formula1.com's Greg Stuart sat down with Hill for a two-part retrospective that promises to unpack what the shorthand misses: the critics, the politics, and the rejection Williams dealt him even as he closed in on the crown.
The setup matters because Hill's title run was never as frictionless as the machinery suggests. He had the fastest car, sure, but also the pressure of a name, the shadow of a legend, and a team already looking past him. The feature aims to separate the privilege narrative from what Hill actually had to overcome.
If the second part delivers, this could reframe how we remember one of the 90s' most complicated championship seasons.
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