Damon Hill: Carrying His Father's Legacy Through F1’s Most Ruthless Era (E352)

We all watched Ayrton. Everyone in F1 was watching what he did because he was so mesmerizing really and determined to do good for the world. And I come in white as a sheet. And then from that moment on, it was pandemonium. Our world was literally shattered.

You want to see things that you admire, and that includes behavior. Running people clean off the track just to stop someone from passing it is not racing. That is the voice of Damon Hill, the 1996 Formula One world champion who emerged from tragedy and self-doubt to carve his own path in Formula One. In this chat, Damon opens up on the immense challenges he faced along his journey and how he finally sought therapy to deal with them. You might know Damon the racing driver, but there's so much more that you don't know.

For example, how his dad's untimely death devastated the family and shaped Damon's determination to prove himself in a sport that he never actually wanted to be in. He offers some personal reflections on Senna's death, stepping into the number one driver's seat at Williams, and the truth behind his intense rivalry with Michael Schumacher, including the controversial 1994 crash that stole the world title from him. And can I just say before we get going, on a personal level, I was so pleased to have this conversation because In all the time that I've known Damon Hill, and it's a long time, I've never known him to open up in this way. And we spoke about a lot of the topics that you can see in a remarkable new film about his life called Hill.

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