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- Damon Hill
- BIOGRAPHY
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- Born: 17 Sept 1960 - Hampstead,
- UK
- Marital Status: Married to Georgie, 2 sons
- Lives: Ascot, Berkshire, UK.
-
- First GP race: 1992 Silverstone,
- Brabham-Judd BT60B
-
- First GP win: 1993 Hungaroring,
- Williams-Renault FW15C
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- GP Wins: Ten
- Poles: Five
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- Rothmans Williams-Renault Specs by
- Max Galvin
- Source: Williams Grand Prix Engineering
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- COMPETITION HISTORY
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- 1984 - "Champion of Brands", riding a
- Yamaha TZ 350cc motorcycle with over
- 40 wins.
-
- First car win (FF1600 Van Diemen
- RF84). Received Special Commendation
- in the Grovewood Awards (later to
- become McLaren-Autosport Awards, the
- most prestigious award for young
- drivers).
-
- 1985 - First full FF1600 season, finishing
- 3rd in ESSO FF1600 Chamionship and
- 5th in Townsend Thoresen FF1600
- Championship with 6 wins. 3rd at
- international Formula Ford Festival.
-
- 1986 - Lucas British Formula 3. Finished
- 9th with 1 second place. Winner of
- Rally-Sprint.
-
- 1987 - Lucas British Formula 3. 5th with
- 2 wins, 2 poles, 2 second places,
- 2 third places and 2 fastest laps.
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- 1988 - Lucas British Formula 3. 3rd with
- 2 wins, 2 poles, 2 second places,
- 4 thrid places and one fastest lap.
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- 2nd in Macau F3 Grand Prix.
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- 2 races in the International Formula
- 3000 championship.
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- 1989 - Limited prgram due to finance.
- One race in National F3000 (3rd) and
- one race in British Touring Car
- Chamionship (4th).
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- Le Mans in Porsche 962. Invited to
- join Footwork in the International
- F3000 for 6 rounds. Remembering the
- car hadn't previously qualified, he
- qualified for all the races and his
- best finish was 14th.
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- 1990 - International F3000 with
- Middlebridge F3000 team. 3 poles,
- 1 second, 2 fastest laps and he led
- 5 races.
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- 1991 - F3000 with Middlebridge. 1 third and
- 2 fourths. Replaced Mark Blundell as
- Canon Williams test driver.
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- 1992 - Retained as Williams official test
- driver. Races with Brabham in Judd
- powered BT60B. Qualified for
- Silverstone and Hungary in
- underpowered car. Finished 16th and
- 11th respectively.
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- 1993 - Canon Williams-Renault team number 2
- next to Alain Prost. Won first Grand
- Prix in FW15C at Hungaroring. 2 more
- consecutive victories in Belgium and
- Italy. Finished 3rd - 69 points in
- FIA World Championship.
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- 1994 - Partner to Ayrton Senna in Rothmans
- Williams-Renault team. After tragic
- death of Senna at Imola took
- heartening victory at Barcelona.
-
- Won Silverstone (the only race his
- twice World Champion father never
- won), Belgium (Schumacher
- disqualified), Monza, Estoril and
- Japan.
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- One point behind Schumacher arriving
- in Adelaide, a contreversial
- collision with Schumacher gave the
- Chamionship to the German. 2nd - 91
- points FIA World Championship.
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- 1995 - Pole at Brazil but retired with
- suspension problem. 2nd on grid in
- Argentina that led to win.
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- Rothmans Williams-Renault Specs by
- Max Galvin
- Source: Williams Grand Prix Engineering
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