Had this on VHS for Christmas in 1996 (I was 18)... Watched every GP that year... Great memories indeed! The VHS is probably still in my parents' loft! 😂 I'm 44 now, and enjoyed seeing it again for the first time in many years! Thank you for sharing
The race in Japan.. "and Damon Hill exits the chicane.." one of my favourite childhood memories.. what an era, what legends both on and off the track..
I went to Estoril in the hopes of seeing Damon clinch the World championship there. Sadly it wasn't to be. HOWEVER, on the plus side, most of the teams stayed in Estoril for the week after the race for testing. After finding a hole in the wire security fencing I made it down into the pit lane and garages and had the week of my life!! It was amazing! I met Damon, had chats with Coulthard and Brundle, got in Michael Schumacher's way (he wasn't too pleased) and watched Ralf bunny-hopping his way down the pit-lane. My camera had been ruined after a sandstorm on the beach and so I'd bought a cheap £5 disposable camera. Surprisingly good photo's recorded the best week of my life!! Damon - a well deserved world champion! Thank you for being such an inspiration!! 🙏😃👍🏁
I always loved how Damon was clutch at such a driver's track as Suzuka. He was already well in the lead when Jacques went out in 96, and his drive there in 94 was absolutely mighty, right up there with stuff we'd expect from Mansell, Alesi, or Schumacher in the wet. Like many here, I believe Damon Hill is an underrated WDC and driver in general. Add his pure class to the mix (so many examples, love how he brought his super fan Will out to Suzuka...), and he's a definite Grand Prix hero. Good on ya, Damon!
I wish Damon had a shot at a more conventional F1 career. Had he begun in F1 at a more normal younger age it is crazy to imagine how much more he could have achieved! A career somewhat short-lived and somewhat unfulfilled, but hey he won a Drivers Championship once and a Constructors Championship 3 times so pretty fulfilled by most standards... Ohh what could have been!
A clutch? 95 Suzuka may have been his nadir and he was punked by backmakers in 93. But 94 was mighty no doubt and 98 he pulled off his best overtake. I'd say inconsistent Also it's good his career was short.....he'd have been crap if he entered earlier and would have been a Blundell. Hill entered bang at right time and right team for him. Such a curious driver, both vastly over and under rated. Big fan, tough cookie
As an 80s kid, this was the golden era of F1 for me. There's no doubt in my mind that at 8 years old, almost every race of this season would have been on TV in our house during Sunday dinner, as Dad followed F1 back then as well. But I was too young to remember any of the details, so having old recordings of the races and documentaries like this with behind the scenes footage is absolutely priceless. I get more satisfaction from watching a few laps of a 90s race than an entire current race weekend.
ahhhh i remember that day…sunday morning i knew the race had finished and i didn’t manage to see it as i was up at 8 or 9am…( i couldn’t get up at 5 to watch it as i was up late saturday night..i was 21!! hehe) Sunday i picked up my grandpa and we drove over to see my mum and as i was driving through new malden my grandad said to me (as bless him, he knew i loved my F1 and had been rooting for our damon for ages!!) he said..”i see your man did alright!!” and i almost cracked my car coz i got that YEEEEAAAAAH feeling. guys i had to wait all day to get back home and i was a flash pushing the remote to play. well, apart form ruddy gerhard almost tipping him in the rear at the final chicane..that’s was it..i was a happy lad. then Jacques retired..when damon crossed the line..i screamed. at last..and you know what..it was two things. he won his championship in the finest style as well know but for two things especially…for the disappointment of that final race in Adelaide..then for how awful 1995 was..but also…for Ayrton.
Man I wore the VHS out of this when I owned it. Such an incredible documentary. Also, if anyone knows the music that starts at 30:06 I’ll be forever grateful. Always wanted to know after all these years.
Not sure unfortunately as I'd also like to know as I love dance music and breaks :) but the reggae tune with the horn in it is this th-cam.com/video/kFW2yp_h2sk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=dqeQx8WUqWUpTD2g
Still watching this in 2022, this was my childhood. Still cannot find out what the tunes are, I think they must have been made exclusively for this back in 96? Shazam isn’t having it haha
Thank you for posting this :) It offers some new perspectives on Damon Hills year 1996. I especially like to hear him talking when he compares driving an F1 with free drawing.
@@RaceDayReplay I read that when it came out :) (late 2017?) Yes, I started following seriously F1 when I was twelve/thirteen after seeing Hill's tire burst in the final stages of the Germany GP in '93. I had a few hiccups in my F1-interest during the Schumacher-years, but I'm still fond of F1 nowadays. But the intense feeling - standing up and thinking about F1 - that was aroused by F1 is gone since Hill stopped.
I quite liked that too. I remember when Derek Daly was calling races here in the US, he would say that some draw the racing line with a crayon, and some draw it with a fine point pen. (or something very close to that). I always enjoyed that analogy. Artistry on the track, for sure.
Thanks for this upload, I've not seen it yet. Was so stoked when Damon won the WDC. And while I am also a huge Gilles fan, I was glad Damon beat Jacques. I'd wanted to be a fan of Jacques, and stayed late to watch him race the second Toyota Atlantic race at Laguna Seca in '93, and was happy when he won Indy in '95. But he just seemed a bit cold, maybe smug; either way, he definitely came across as a bit of a poseur in F1 with his baggy driving suit, dyed hair, and "I had a HUGE crash at Spa again so I'm so cool" attitude. Was stoked Damon beat him. Was not happy with the WIlliams team for dumping Damon, but not really a surprise I guess because that was how Team Willy operated. Was heartbroken for Damon when the Arrows crapped out on him in Hungary in '97...
Williams had a habit of screwing good drivers in the 90s. Mansell was screwed by them in '92, he won the title and left for Indycar. Senna was screwed by them when they allowed Prost to veto Senna in his contract. Mansell was screwed once again in '94 after returning to share the seat with DC. There was an agreement in place for Mansell to drive for them full time again in '95 but they went with DC at the last minute. Then they screwed Damon half way through 1996 by letting him find out second hand through the media that he was being replaced by HHH for '97. Both Nigel and Damon did the best thing they could and took that #1 away from Williams. Nigel retired the #1 for '93 and Damon took it to Arrows in '97. It's hard to fully respect Williams for their achievements back then with the knowledge of how they treated professional and above all else LOYAL drivers. Ayrton, Nigel, and Damon deserved so much better than a team with leadership that thought so much of themselves that they could disregard contracts and gentlemen's agreements. I know all teams have been guilty of it at times, but at that point in time Williams frequently did this. They foolishly believed they were the only ingredient in their success and they got hit hard with reality. The icing on the cake and the cherry on top without a doubt was when they screwed Adrian Newey over in 1996-1997 and he left to join McLaren thus ending Williams' success and taking the following two WCCs and WDCs (Courtesy of Mika) with him. They truly thought they could treat anyone however they wanted and they were stung hard by losing multiple title winning drivers and then the greatest F1 designer of the past 32 years. They never fully recovered. That is a lesson to anyone on why you should treat others with respect and ALWAYS stay humble!
@@mrkipling2201 Could have won the Indy 500 in 1993 right? Makes you wonder what could have been for Nigel in the end but hey 1992 F1 World Champion and 1993 Indycar Champion isn't bad going at all! Even Fernando Alonso is having trouble nailing that Indy 500 down.
18:10 - Williams really did him a disservice not letting him know he wasn’t being kept on. Had to scramble between the slowest teams for a drive in 97.
41:55 oh I think you will get quite a lot quicker over the next couple of decades! Great documentary, still have it on VHS! Do you have many others still to publish?
What is the final line of: "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE KIDDING MICHAEL SCHUMACHER, IF YOU THIN OLD DAMONS DONE, WE ARE THE BOYS WHO WILL STOP YOUR LITTLE GAMES, WE ARE THE BOYS WHO WILL ?????????????????????????"
It’s crazy to think Hill could have won 6 races in 1993 and could of had 3 wdc from 1994-1996 but thanks to the lack of support and not believing in the ability’s of their new no.1 driver Hill only ended up with one wdc. Williams didn’t renew Hills contract beyond that year. ( he had already been replaced ) Williams has suffered the consequences since.
And the Williams team was a shot race team mechanical issues at the wrong times crap strategies almost all the time if anything killed a driver with poor workmanship if anything hill was the main winning factor here at times sorry Williams you built an up there car but very poor race team come race day .
He should be a 2 time world champion. He did an excellent job in 1994, picking up the pieces after the death of Ayrton Senna and but for the shenanigans in the last race of the season, when Schumacher did what he did, he would have won it. He lost it by one point i think it was. A travesty.
@@tomcharlton586I have to agree with you. I must admit that the more times I watch that incident in Adelaide, it looks more and more like a genuine racing incident.
20:13 "...the second is that I have to say I think he's been very badly by the team..." // "... but sadly this sort of thing happens in F1, and sadly it particulary seems to happen with Williams because it happened with Nelson Piquet, it happened with Nigel Mansell, it happened with Alain Prost admittedly for entirely different reasons..." Well, Murray (rip), let me tell you that Damond was not the first to be treated very badly by Williams, because I think you forgot the worst case scenario. You forgot about a driver who helped a desktop champion win and then when he wanted to win his own they wouldn't let him... and then attributed it to... a state of mind. Yes, I'm talking about the real champion of 1981, CARLOS ALBERTO REUTEMANN!!!! PD: And no... I didn't forget Senna (rip). I'm still waiting for Williams to admit his mistake for the bad weld on the car's tie rod. But that can't be anymore because Williams died and P. Head is playing dumb as always.
Williams F1 1996- 'We practiced pit stops for 5 hours a day and the quickest one we did was 6.2s, you won't get much better than that'. McLaren 2023 at Qatar 'Hold my non-alcoholic beer'.
why the hell has damon not been given and knighthood. He's been one of our greatest sportsmen , displayed the best of British in terms of behaviour, contributed for charity for real reasons as opposed to some who do it for the PR. We give awards to people in the post office but not to great heroes like him. All it does is just undermine the concept of knighthoods. Fortunately Lewis and Jackie were awarded [on merit] . But why has Damon and [GEORGE BLOODY HARRISON} never got a knighthood. Reply
“We’ve spent 5 hours per day practicing pit stops….we’re down to about 6 seconds….I don’t think you’ll get quicker than that”. Well only four seconds quicker.
Murray Walker made the mistake of being friends with Damon during his career. He therefore automatically favoured Hill over every other driver and never had a bad word to say against him even when he was clearly in the wrong.
@@RaceDayReplay but as a professional commentator he should have realised that Damon needed criticism at times. Especially in 99 when he really should have left Jordan mid season.
Murray was pure class, and his commentary on Damon was nothing like the slobbering done over the pampered mercedes driver that the last generation of the britpress has done.
Had this on VHS for Christmas in 1996 (I was 18)... Watched every GP that year... Great memories indeed! The VHS is probably still in my parents' loft! 😂 I'm 44 now, and enjoyed seeing it again for the first time in many years! Thank you for sharing
The race in Japan.. "and Damon Hill exits the chicane.." one of my favourite childhood memories.. what an era, what legends both on and off the track..
I went to Estoril in the hopes of seeing Damon clinch the World championship there. Sadly it wasn't to be. HOWEVER, on the plus side, most of the teams stayed in Estoril for the week after the race for testing.
After finding a hole in the wire security fencing I made it down into the pit lane and garages and had the week of my life!! It was amazing!
I met Damon, had chats with Coulthard and Brundle, got in Michael Schumacher's way (he wasn't too pleased) and watched Ralf bunny-hopping his way down the pit-lane.
My camera had been ruined after a sandstorm on the beach and so I'd bought a cheap £5 disposable camera. Surprisingly good photo's recorded the best week of my life!!
Damon - a well deserved world champion! Thank you for being such an inspiration!! 🙏😃👍🏁
Damon seems to be a really down to earth guy; happy it all came together for him in the end.
I always loved how Damon was clutch at such a driver's track as Suzuka. He was already well in the lead when Jacques went out in 96, and his drive there in 94 was absolutely mighty, right up there with stuff we'd expect from Mansell, Alesi, or Schumacher in the wet.
Like many here, I believe Damon Hill is an underrated WDC and driver in general. Add his pure class to the mix (so many examples, love how he brought his super fan Will out to Suzuka...), and he's a definite Grand Prix hero. Good on ya, Damon!
I wish Damon had a shot at a more conventional F1 career. Had he begun in F1 at a more normal younger age it is crazy to imagine how much more he could have achieved! A career somewhat short-lived and somewhat unfulfilled, but hey he won a Drivers Championship once and a Constructors Championship 3 times so pretty fulfilled by most standards... Ohh what could have been!
A clutch? 95 Suzuka may have been his nadir and he was punked by backmakers in 93. But 94 was mighty no doubt and 98 he pulled off his best overtake. I'd say inconsistent
Also it's good his career was short.....he'd have been crap if he entered earlier and would have been a Blundell. Hill entered bang at right time and right team for him.
Such a curious driver, both vastly over and under rated. Big fan, tough cookie
As an 80s kid, this was the golden era of F1 for me. There's no doubt in my mind that at 8 years old, almost every race of this season would have been on TV in our house during Sunday dinner, as Dad followed F1 back then as well. But I was too young to remember any of the details, so having old recordings of the races and documentaries like this with behind the scenes footage is absolutely priceless. I get more satisfaction from watching a few laps of a 90s race than an entire current race weekend.
I have always liked Damon and his attitude.
Great documentary. A friend gave me a VHS of it at the time.
Still got this on VHS in the loft, alas no video player to watch it on 😄 Great video, great story, great guy.
ahhhh i remember that day…sunday morning i knew the race had finished and i didn’t manage to see it as i was up at 8 or 9am…( i couldn’t get up at 5 to watch it as i was up late saturday night..i was 21!! hehe)
Sunday i picked up my grandpa and we drove over to see my mum and as i was driving through new malden my grandad said to me (as bless him, he knew i loved my F1 and had been rooting for our damon for ages!!) he said..”i see your man did alright!!” and i almost cracked my car coz i got that YEEEEAAAAAH feeling.
guys i had to wait all day to get back home and i was a flash pushing the remote to play.
well, apart form ruddy gerhard almost tipping him in the rear at the final chicane..that’s was it..i was a happy lad. then Jacques retired..when damon crossed the line..i screamed. at last..and you know what..it was two things. he won his championship in the finest style as well know but for two things especially…for the disappointment of that final race in Adelaide..then for how awful 1995 was..but also…for Ayrton.
Man I wore the VHS out of this when I owned it. Such an incredible documentary. Also, if anyone knows the music that starts at 30:06 I’ll be forever grateful. Always wanted to know after all these years.
Not sure unfortunately as I'd also like to know as I love dance music and breaks :) but the reggae tune with the horn in it is this th-cam.com/video/kFW2yp_h2sk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=dqeQx8WUqWUpTD2g
Still watching this in 2022, this was my childhood. Still cannot find out what the tunes are, I think they must have been made exclusively for this back in 96? Shazam isn’t having it haha
The end credits say Original Music by Paul Brewster and Graham Sacher. I'd try searching for them on social media
I had this on VHS and have been looking for a copy for ages! thank you soooo much!
Thank you for posting this :) It offers some new perspectives on Damon Hills year 1996. I especially like to hear him talking when he compares driving an F1 with free drawing.
If you liked this you'll love his autobiography Watching The Wheels
@@RaceDayReplay I read that when it came out :) (late 2017?) Yes, I started following seriously F1 when I was twelve/thirteen after seeing Hill's tire burst in the final stages of the Germany GP in '93.
I had a few hiccups in my F1-interest during the Schumacher-years, but I'm still fond of F1 nowadays. But the intense feeling - standing up and thinking about F1 - that was aroused by F1 is gone since Hill stopped.
I quite liked that too. I remember when Derek Daly was calling races here in the US, he would say that some draw the racing line with a crayon, and some draw it with a fine point pen. (or something very close to that). I always enjoyed that analogy. Artistry on the track, for sure.
Wow I never knew the story about Damon flying out Will. What a gent!
Wonderful wasn't it lol
Wow never seen this before. 10/10 Thank you
Great stuff, thank you so much for that upload🎉
GREAT VIDEOS. EXCELLENT JOB. THANK YOU.
I loved the after race party!
26:36 great guitar riff.
I'm still trying to find out what it is
1996 wish I was there forever..and now that I think I am there forever..
Thanks for this upload, I've not seen it yet. Was so stoked when Damon won the WDC.
And while I am also a huge Gilles fan, I was glad Damon beat Jacques. I'd wanted to be a fan of Jacques, and stayed late to watch him race the second Toyota Atlantic race at Laguna Seca in '93, and was happy when he won Indy in '95. But he just seemed a bit cold, maybe smug; either way, he definitely came across as a bit of a poseur in F1 with his baggy driving suit, dyed hair, and "I had a HUGE crash at Spa again so I'm so cool" attitude. Was stoked Damon beat him.
Was not happy with the WIlliams team for dumping Damon, but not really a surprise I guess because that was how Team Willy operated. Was heartbroken for Damon when the Arrows crapped out on him in Hungary in '97...
JVi was known as Cheques on some message boarda I used due to his tendency to go for big money contracts instead of the possibility of a good car
@@RaceDayReplay Unfortunately that was his downfall, along with Craig Pollok in my view. BAR? Good Lord...
Williams had a habit of screwing good drivers in the 90s. Mansell was screwed by them in '92, he won the title and left for Indycar. Senna was screwed by them when they allowed Prost to veto Senna in his contract. Mansell was screwed once again in '94 after returning to share the seat with DC. There was an agreement in place for Mansell to drive for them full time again in '95 but they went with DC at the last minute. Then they screwed Damon half way through 1996 by letting him find out second hand through the media that he was being replaced by HHH for '97. Both Nigel and Damon did the best thing they could and took that #1 away from Williams. Nigel retired the #1 for '93 and Damon took it to Arrows in '97. It's hard to fully respect Williams for their achievements back then with the knowledge of how they treated professional and above all else LOYAL drivers. Ayrton, Nigel, and Damon deserved so much better than a team with leadership that thought so much of themselves that they could disregard contracts and gentlemen's agreements. I know all teams have been guilty of it at times, but at that point in time Williams frequently did this. They foolishly believed they were the only ingredient in their success and they got hit hard with reality. The icing on the cake and the cherry on top without a doubt was when they screwed Adrian Newey over in 1996-1997 and he left to join McLaren thus ending Williams' success and taking the following two WCCs and WDCs (Courtesy of Mika) with him. They truly thought they could treat anyone however they wanted and they were stung hard by losing multiple title winning drivers and then the greatest F1 designer of the past 32 years. They never fully recovered. That is a lesson to anyone on why you should treat others with respect and ALWAYS stay humble!
@@HamsterSportand then Mansell went and won the indy car championship in 1993. That showed how great he was.
@@mrkipling2201 Could have won the Indy 500 in 1993 right? Makes you wonder what could have been for Nigel in the end but hey 1992 F1 World Champion and 1993 Indycar Champion isn't bad going at all! Even Fernando Alonso is having trouble nailing that Indy 500 down.
Damon 🥰
18:10 - Williams really did him a disservice not letting him know he wasn’t being kept on. Had to scramble between the slowest teams for a drive in 97.
41:55 oh I think you will get quite a lot quicker over the next couple of decades! Great documentary, still have it on VHS! Do you have many others still to publish?
No more for drivers currently. I tried to upload a Senna one and a JYS one but they were blocked worldwide
This was when they could refuel though, hence the massive margins vs today.
42:36 magnesium
I've seen this on VHS
24:44 it's me! TeamLH #44
Cool how long have you been in the team?
24:55 I'm sure I could here Ride The Wild Wind by Queen in the background
What is the final line of:
"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE KIDDING MICHAEL SCHUMACHER, IF YOU THIN OLD DAMONS DONE,
WE ARE THE BOYS WHO WILL STOP YOUR LITTLE GAMES,
WE ARE THE BOYS WHO WILL ?????????????????????????"
Make you think again
@@DPW864 Amazing thank you! Seems so obvious now playing it back. I always hoped my comment would be replied to!
I was about to upload this, years after having a copyright strike from F1 Admin. No need to now lol!
It’s crazy to think Hill could have won 6 races in 1993 and could of had 3 wdc from 1994-1996 but thanks to the lack of support and not believing in the ability’s of their new no.1 driver Hill only ended up with one wdc. Williams didn’t renew Hills contract beyond that year. ( he had already been replaced ) Williams has suffered the consequences since.
And the Williams team was a shot race team mechanical issues at the wrong times crap strategies almost all the time if anything killed a driver with poor workmanship if anything hill was the main winning factor here at times sorry Williams you built an up there car but very poor race team come race day .
@@stevenfrigo4635 their pit stops were notoriously bad to. Hill dragged them kicking and screaming into contention
He could win wdc in 1994, but in 1995 Schumacher was simply better.
Should have been a double World Champion triple if he'd remained at Williams!!!
He should be a 2 time world champion. He did an excellent job in 1994, picking up the pieces after the death of Ayrton Senna and but for the shenanigans in the last race of the season, when Schumacher did what he did, he would have won it. He lost it by one point i think it was. A travesty.
Ethics aside, if your main rival can miss 4 rounds and still be in with a shot of the title at the last round, you dont deserve that title.
@@tomcharlton586I have to agree with you. I must admit that the more times I watch that incident in Adelaide, it looks more and more like a genuine racing incident.
Tomcharlton. He actually only missed TWO rounds, Italy and Portugal.
That Ferrari just looked strange. Looked like a moving cherry can.
Somehow pitstops at Estoril for Williams always seem to screw up their WDC leader...
20:13
"...the second is that I have to say I think he's been very badly by the team..." // "... but sadly this sort of thing happens in F1, and sadly it particulary seems to happen with Williams because it happened with Nelson Piquet, it happened with Nigel Mansell, it happened with Alain Prost admittedly for entirely different reasons..."
Well, Murray (rip), let me tell you that Damond was not the first to be treated very badly by Williams, because I think you forgot the worst case scenario. You forgot about a driver who helped a desktop champion win and then when he wanted to win his own they wouldn't let him... and then attributed it to... a state of mind. Yes, I'm talking about the real champion of 1981, CARLOS ALBERTO REUTEMANN!!!!
PD: And no... I didn't forget Senna (rip). I'm still waiting for Williams to admit his mistake for the bad weld on the car's tie rod. But that can't be anymore because Williams died and P. Head is playing dumb as always.
👿 hill
Williams F1 1996- 'We practiced pit stops for 5 hours a day and the quickest one we did was 6.2s, you won't get much better than that'. McLaren 2023 at Qatar 'Hold my non-alcoholic beer'.
They were refueling as well. 6.2 with refueling, can’t compare.
why the hell has damon not been given and knighthood. He's been one of our greatest sportsmen , displayed the best of British in terms of behaviour, contributed for charity for real reasons as opposed to some who do it for the PR. We give awards to people in the post office but not to great heroes like him. All it does is just undermine the concept of knighthoods. Fortunately Lewis and Jackie were awarded [on merit] . But why has Damon and [GEORGE BLOODY HARRISON} never got a knighthood.
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“We’ve spent 5 hours per day practicing pit stops….we’re down to about 6 seconds….I don’t think you’ll get quicker than that”.
Well only four seconds quicker.
They still had refuelling in 1996
Williams F1 in 2024 = 😂
If Alan Partridge had won the f1 championship.
Murray Walker made the mistake of being friends with Damon during his career. He therefore automatically favoured Hill over every other driver and never had a bad word to say against him even when he was clearly in the wrong.
Murray had known Damon since he was a kid attending GPs with his dad, can't really blame Murray for having a soft spot for him
@@RaceDayReplay but as a professional commentator he should have realised that Damon needed criticism at times. Especially in 99 when he really should have left Jordan mid season.
@@jacobmassey3897 no doubt, but you can see why he spoke about him like he did
He wanted to left after the British GP, but EJ did not let him go.. read his book
Murray was pure class, and his commentary on Damon was nothing like the slobbering done over the pampered mercedes driver that the last generation of the britpress has done.