Damon feeling he needed to put the Hill name back on the map, plus all he witnessed up to that point, REALLY nails in the context of Murray Walker having a lump in his throat! 🥹

Stop blaming others and own your mistakes already! 👹 I've read Hill's book, a recommendation for every fan of the sport indeed... if you're worried about the mold, it's also available as ones and zeroes. (save the trees!). ;)

“I just wanna talk to him”

I met him at the Silverstone GP in 93 and again during testing in 94 and he was very humble and nice but a little shy, though I was only in my teens and quite shy myself! He seemed a lovely bloke overall to be honest 😊

You want real (brutal) honesty? check out Brian Redman's 'Daring Drivers,Deadly Tracks'

I think Michael would have not had so easy time winning titles, more than likely would not have the 7 titles, maybe 6 or 5, depends on how things would change

Adrian leaving wasn't *because* Damon left it was the manner in which it happened. If Frank and Patrick involved Adrian in the process it may not have stung so much. I believe Adrian had itchy feet and had been talking to others since the end of 95 regardless so Damon departing was a good excuse regardless of what his novel says.

@@MattMoran66 spot on. I didn’t really express it properly in my original comment, but you’re right. Hill’s departure, or more specifically, the way he was booted from the team, wasn’t THE reason Newey left, but it was definitely the straw that broke the camel’s back. If Williams and Head had swallowed their pride and given Newey a proper seat at the table, then things would have turned out much differently for them.

Williams have all the What ifs in F1 What if Alesi, what if Senna and so forth

@@nickypoundtown9568 What if they _hadn't_ signed Senna, even. Would Prost have been there for another three years, and where would Senna have ended up? Might Prost have ended up with another 2-3 championships?

Hungary 97 was the first race I really remember watching live, was so upset as a 10 year old when Damon lost the lead right before the end 😢

I wasn’t a Hill fan at all but the 97 Hungarian GP was probably one of the best drives I had seen. As a kid, I couldn’t be bothered with the commentary team gushing over him while The Micheal was the bad guy and the young Scottish guy was ignored… so Mika was my hero! 🤷‍♂️😂 As I grew up, I started to appreciate the situation going on behind the scenes with Hill, it’s a miracle he even bothered. Losing AN ruined Williams, looking back it was such a stupid situation for Williams to get themselves into considering all the options they had. It was so out of character the way they treated Hill and Newey and they’ve paid for it ever since

​@BW_87 it was the first race for 12 year old me. I 'knew' Damon from playing Grand Prix 2 on my computer. I was gutted. Had Damon won that day, Schumacher could've finished 2nd in Jerez and still win the WDC.

On the Williams thing, I'd say sort of but not really. In my opinion at least, Williams' demise was out of their heartless attitude towards EVERYONE that ever set foot into any of their cars, which eventually caught up with them. Even at their peak, their biggest problem was that there was never any stability with drivers in that team to develop the car and team relationship, just a constant hire-n-fire and treating drivers like inanimate objects. Mansell was the only driver that stayed with Williams for a consistent period of time. I dare even suggest that Williams would only ever have been known as another garagista midfielder if Mansell hadn't stuck with them for years. Williams should have committed to SOMEBODY after Mansell left. They should've told Senna and Prost respectively at the end of 1992 that unless they're going to be committed for at least 3 seasons and not entertain the idea of retirement, then they can gtfo and make way for new talent that will. If not Senna or Prost 1993-1996+, then Hill or Barrichello or Alesi or Hakkinen or any of the HEAPS of promising new talent of the early/mid 90s, take your pick. On that note as well, they shouldn't have taken the piss with that Alesi contract keeping him in the dark for months until he signed with Ferrari out of frustration. I think essentially being the 'Renault factory team' in the 90s masked their mismanagement, exactly how being the 'BMW factory team' in the 00s masked their mismanagement. I know I sound like I'm slagging off Williams here, but I say all this out of frustration towards their stubbornness and the resulting decades of flying backwards that could have been prevented with team management that wasn't deluded with granduer. I've always been a Williams fan, but with time and being in this era of endless extended podcasts of drivers and team members looking back retrospectively and opening up about what went on behind the scenes, I just feel embarrassed for the mentality Frank Williams and Patrick Head have. Even the Martini/Massa-resurgance era had potential if handled better, and now they are somehow worse than Minardi ever was!

@@solitaryclusterofneurons598 This is an interesting and well considered point. Franks Williams and Patrick Head were very much men of their time - and their inability/refusal to change is ultimately what did for them. They were very much a 'pull yourself together and get a backbone' sort of a motivator, whereas modern thinking accepts that the human mind is somewhat more nuanced than that. The trouble is they never moved with the times, and managed to suck the spirit out of Hill, and alienated the best designer they were ever going to have because they simply could not bring themselves to work in a way that wasn't how they had always done it. Rather than pondering 'what ifs' about single decisions like the sacking of Damon, I think we need to accept that this was probably always going to happen, simply because the management had been out-evolved, and we never going to be the sort to catch up. It was inevitable

Urm not really?😅

If I remember rightly George Harrison had a hand in it as well.

​@@AidanMillwardGeorge Harrison has proved to be a financial angel, first Monty Python then the Hill's.

@@AidanMillward😮😮😮wow❤

His mum died seven years ago.

Yeah he’s really on it all the time, and his videos are well researched and thoughtful.

I remember staying up for Suzuka 96 too, a memorable race!!

thanks to him being a Hill

When DC did his, he asked Patrick which way he had to turn to get out the pits 😅

Jacques is a single world champion, Hakkinen won 98, 99 edit: was your post a troll?

Actual fact: Frankie Bastard never gave a sh*t about his drivers. He always thought his cars had no stink and any half trained hominid could win because....

@@jordanclark4635 It shows in which year they defended the title.

@@jordanclark4635 ... It shows the year they won the title and the following year in which they defended it. e.g. Alan Jones won in 1980, defended it in 1981 Its not hard to understand.

@@Holden308 yeah Williams had a habit of letting champions go

Good analogy

He was already putting in a lot of hours at Williams by then, so it must have been odd to go from the most technically advanced car on the grid to a manual gearbox back marker. Still, a drive's a drive, and he probably enjoyed himself.

yeah his name took him places - from racing motorbikes to landing a test role with williams in 2 seconds

To be honest, international F3000 was hardly ever an accurate barometer of how good/not good an F1 driver would be. Really bizarre results there.

I was thinking this Just after the video finished, what could have been if he was able to race in single seaters some years earlier, the many hours more of practice specially without restricted testing would do wonders, he might have left early over the trauma of seeing many drivers his father raced with dying but would still be completely different

and now he's back, though that Vanwall is way behind the factory-backed Hypercars.

@@MinusMOD98 I thought Vanwall fired him?

He forgot to mention Mario andretti as someone who won 2 of the three for the triple crown by winning the 69 Indy 500 and the 78 world championship. And like JV, he also finished second at lemans in 1995 by finishing first in class which is somewhat of a win, but second overall.

Other examples I can think of are Alan Jones in 1981 and Jenson Button in 2011. Both were excellent seasons despite their respective title winning campaigns being behind them.

@@reichsfuhrermonika6469 Oh I disagree, it's inconceivable how he failed to win the 2005 championship in the rapid MP4-20 and his incredible Japan victory the same year as well makes '05 for me Kimi's best.

Yeah make you feel quite a bit less sympathy for Williams...

Frank was a bit erm different It wasn't the driver it was him that won

@@mets137781a team that deserves zero sympathy from anyone the way they used to treat drivers then ran the team into the ground ( while the family managed to pocket a tidy sum for their own safe keeping).

​​​@@jamsstar2010 except it WASN'T him it was Newey that made the difference. Newey leaving had alot to do with how frank treated Damon. So he decided to turn mclaren into winners again, basically turning Williams into the backmarker team they are today. Karma 😂

He was on one that whole race. First with him and JV holding up Michael with pure shithousery and then the divebomb.

Alway had two lights.

He was done with racing completely. He could have easily have been injured at Le Mans or Thruxton

And I've seen Graham Hill drive at Indianapolis

Early/mid 80es Piquet was a menance and from all the 3 times champions, he and Brabham are probably the ones talked about least. He got overshadowed by the Prost Senna rivalery and the laters death in the end, and being an absolute ass about everything certainly doesn't help.

@@Edelweiss1102 People don't remember that Piquet was regularly mentioned among the all-time greats (with Fangio and Clark) after his second championship win.

It is not talked about much that he had neurological problems after his accident at tamburello. He kept it a secret. He carried it for years.

Good call, he's probably the most underrated triple WC in any sport. Don't get me wrong, he talks some utter tosh, but he was one hell of a driver.

No clue.