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00:20:21Tosh, what was this? What's going on?
00:20:25Oh, crikey. Hang on, Damon. There's a fax here for you.
00:20:28Oh, it's from Frank.
00:20:30Um, sorry, Damon, I've changed our mind.
00:20:34Puckkinen is now driving for us for £7 million.
00:20:41Is it good?
00:20:47The primary club for this conference is to come.
00:20:50Damon will be the regular driver for Puckkinen-Williams
00:20:53and the Williams Renault cars in the 1993 World Championship.
00:20:57Primarily our requirement from him is to not crash the car,
00:21:01is to get on the podium as often as he can,
00:21:03and of course, therefore, and thereby,
00:21:06to win to obtain as many World Championship points in 1993
00:21:10to help Puckkinen-Williams team retain its grip
00:21:13on the World Championship for Constructors.
00:21:16You will be responsible for your own travel
00:21:19and accommodation expenses at Grand Prix's.
00:21:22But we will pay for your wife to attend any races you designate.
00:21:26PHONE RINGS
00:21:28What's that all about?
00:21:30That's not right. Never mind.
00:21:32You're not going to pay for your travel and accommodation, are you?
00:21:35No.
00:21:36You wouldn't have any money left at the end of the year.
00:21:39I know. Well, that's what has to be thrashed about, you see.
00:21:42Can you hear it?
00:21:43That's my fact.
00:21:45My contract going through to William.
00:21:49What about Dad? What would he have thought of all this, do you think?
00:21:53I think he'd be very, very excited indeed.
00:21:55And perhaps he'd be a bit proud of me as well.
00:21:59This year there's every prospect of a season of excitement and drama and real competition.
00:22:15Three times world champion Alain Prost is back to lead the Williams team.
00:22:20And Ayrton Senna, who we feared might be taking a year off, is here driving an all-new McLaren Ford.
00:22:32I was trying to be what they wanted, but I felt like I was on a very thin ledge.
00:22:37I knew I'd got to Formula One late. I knew I was given a golden opportunity.
00:22:47Now I have to get the stamp of approval as a Formula One driver.
00:22:51Got to make this stick.
00:22:52Got to make this stick.
00:23:03Away they go, Senna's got a superb start.
00:23:06Damon Hill is into second position as they go into the first left corner.
00:23:11And look at that, a complete spin by Damon Hill.
00:23:14He's overdone it.
00:23:17And Damon Hill is in 12th position.
00:23:20Oh, that's Hill going off with Zanadi.
00:23:26Disappointing debut for Williams.
00:23:32Not a great start.
00:23:37I satisfied everyone's doubts about me because there were a lot of people who were doubtful that Frank had done the right thing, assigning someone as inexperienced as myself.
00:23:51There are definitely drivers who have no doubts about themselves.
00:23:56Second place driver, I am on Senna.
00:23:59My confidence was conditional on me performing well.
00:24:03If I performed badly, then the little gremlins would creep in and go, well, maybe I'm not up to it.
00:24:08But I could not afford to fail.
00:24:14We didn't expect our first child to have a learning disability.
00:24:28For me, the first 24 hours were really hard.
00:24:34And I just thought, I don't know if I can do this.
00:24:40I'm going to be overwhelmed by this.
00:24:43And the hospital that we had him in, they were giving us little addresses of care homes written on scraps of envelopes.
00:24:57He wasn't even 12 hours old and they laid out his future for him.
00:25:03And I felt, right, okay, if that's all he's worth, he's worth a lot more to us.
00:25:11Feeling this responsibility I had to support Oliver and Georgie really focused my determination.
00:25:23The Brazilian Grand Prix now comes down to a straight fight between Senna and Damon Hill.
00:25:33He's in a position to try.
00:25:35Oh, Senna uses all his superior experience.
00:25:54And to the delirious delight of his countrymen, wins in Brazil.
00:25:58After the race, he sent his manager round and he said, Ayrton would like to see you in his motone.
00:26:10So I went round dutifully and sat down and listened to Ayrton giving me a little bit of fatherly advice.
00:26:15It's dangerous and you need to be more careful.
00:26:19I was quite pleased with myself, actually, that I'd upset him.
00:26:28I was watching the gap between me and Alain.
00:26:40I was at times quicker than him.
00:26:43I knew the car better than him. I knew the team better than him.
00:26:47And from time to time, I did a better job in the car.
00:26:50Then you start to believe in yourself.
00:26:53Damon Hill passes. Alain Prost makes no bones about it either.
00:26:58He was supposed to win the championship and I was often told to back off if I got close.
00:27:04Damon, he just checked his mirror to see exactly where Prost was behind him.
00:27:09And Prost takes the lead. No fight from Damon. Very neatly done. Almost looked like a beautiful team drill.
00:27:21Exactly, what were the orders for Damon?
00:27:27Damon was asked to give way to Alain, which is the basis of his contract and really not too surprising when you consider that Damon is in his first year of Formula One.
00:27:37In France, you receive orders from the box not to pass Prost, right? What is the position here for Silverstone?
00:27:45He just asked the wrong question. I said I'd answer one question. I can't answer that one.
00:27:50At this time, Damon can win.
00:27:53Yes.
00:27:54Yes.
00:27:55Yeah.
00:27:56He is leading and if he's still there on that 49, if his car is reliable, we can hope from the English point of view that he is going to win his first Grand Prix.
00:28:14It's a race that his father never did win. It would be wonderful for Damon to get his first Grand Prix victories here in front of his own crowd.
00:28:31This is Damon Hill's supreme day.
00:28:33What can I or anybody say? Damon Hill's Renault engine has expired.
00:28:55And the Englishman is not going to win.
00:28:58Alain Prost goes into the lead.
00:29:01And I can just imagine what's going through Damon Hill's mind now. What have I got to do to win a Grand Prix?
00:29:10My dad traveled on determination and enthusiasm.
00:29:24My dad travelled on determination and enthusiasm, not being put off by disappointment.
00:29:41So daddy's good, Molly.
00:29:52The Formula One World Champion of 1993, Alain Prost.
00:30:17He finished third in the FIA World Drivers' Championship. Ladies and gentlemen, a warm welcome, if you please, for Damon Hill.
00:30:24He gave us an extremely hard time on occasions last year and I'm glad to say he's now on the same side. Ladies and gentlemen, Ayrton Senna.
00:30:39The journalists were asking, you know, how you gonna cope with Ayrton?
00:30:46What a great introduction I had. Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost and now Ayrton Senna.
00:30:55I wanted to find out how I could be rated against these benchmarks. Same team, same car. I'd know, I'd find out.
00:31:02Ayrton had signed up for what he thought was going to be the kind of experience that Alan Prost had had.
00:31:09We're a dominant car and it wasn't going to plan.
00:31:14The International Motorsports Federation has banned some of the controversial computer devices which help drivers in Formula One motor racing.
00:31:22The van is designed to stop the domination of the richest Formula One teams like Williams Renault, the world champions.
00:31:29Ayrton, how do you feel about driving with the new regulations?
00:31:32It just makes harder. I think with electronic suspension the cars were more controlled.
00:31:38Traction control used to give a great help.
00:31:41You cannot afford to go on the throttle and let the traction control do the work for you.
00:31:47So it is more of a challenge than anything.
00:31:51When we first ran the car, it was difficult to drive.
00:31:54Straight into the lead goes Chumacher.
00:32:05And a spinner there. That is Senna. Ayrton Senna is out.
00:32:10And off goes Damon Hill. My goodness, this is not Williams' race.
00:32:14Ayrton stood by the edge of the track and felt he heard something that was suspicious from Michael's car.
00:32:32There was suspicions about whether or not Benetton still had traction control.
00:32:38And Michael Schumacher wins the Pacific Fraud Prix.
00:32:43Out comes the Pist of Victory.
00:32:46He dominated in Japan as he dominated in Brazil.
00:32:51You don't want to be racing against someone who you think is not playing fair deck.
00:32:56But the attitude at Williams was, we don't have the evidence, we don't know what they're doing,
00:32:59we're just going to have to beat them with what we've got.
00:33:07There was this pregnant feel about returning to Europe.
00:33:25The fact that Imler marked the start of the championship pro plan.
00:33:30If you weren't going to become world champion, you'd have to start winning.
00:33:34It was like the feeling that there was this thundercloud that had to release all its energy.
00:33:42Hanging over this race.
00:33:45The race starts in just over two hours' time now.
00:33:49The drivers have had their mandatory briefing, and they talk through safety aspects on the track.
00:33:55Imler is, for us, I think, drivers, it's a very fast circuit, very demanding, because the speeds we do around here are pretty high.
00:34:08And it takes a lot of concentration to maintain, most of the time, control over the machine.
00:34:15It's also a circuit where the g-forces in our body and the neck are pretty high, because we're doing this corner at 290 km an hour.
00:34:27It's a long corner, and the neck goes, goes, goes.
00:34:30I had gone to sit in the motorhome.
00:34:33I'm reading my book, and the door opens, and in comes Ayrton.
00:34:40He starts to get dressed, and I'm thinking, do you want me to leave, you know?
00:34:45And he goes, no, no, stay and talk, tell me, you've got little boys.
00:34:49And I'm thinking, really? Ayrton's about to go out and race, does he really want to hear about my little boys?
00:34:55But he really did.
00:34:57He was talking about how happy he was when he was with his nephews, and that was his favourite thing in the world, playing with them in the sea.
00:35:10He's leaving, and he stops and turns around and says, you know, don't worry about Damon, he's going to be fine.
00:35:18Williams are a great team, they are safe, they'll look after him, don't you worry about him.
00:35:23He literally walked out and went straight into the garage, got in his car, and that was that.
00:35:35Ayrton is blind.
00:35:36Ayrton is blind.
00:35:39We're on lap six now, and Senna is followed by Schielebacher.
00:35:43Oh, that's Senna. My goodness! I just saw him clutch off to the right.
00:35:59Stop to the right!
00:36:05I'd seen him go off, and my first thought was
00:36:07he'd be annoyed because he hasn't finished the race.
00:36:19I can tell from the radio communications that it's pretty serious.
00:36:23The tone of voice is worrying.
00:36:34How serious?
00:36:36Serious, serious.
00:36:47What the hell?
00:36:49How could he go off on that corner?
00:36:53I was getting limited information from Williams because they were concerned about finding
00:37:06out what had caused the accident and what they could advise me to not have the same problem.
00:37:15We'd had power steering on the car.
00:37:17They wanted to be reassured that there wasn't something that was amiss with that.
00:37:23He said to me on the grid, turn it off, we're going to run without it, just to be sure.
00:37:30Right, that's going to be tough.
00:37:31You know, just bring him in. Why are you keeping him up if you don't know?
00:37:46I was in the garage, and I saw one of the team come in and make a beeline for Patrick.
00:38:01I saw her say to him that Ayrton had died.
00:38:17I don't think I've ever felt so powerless in my whole life.
00:38:36It was horrible, waiting for him to just come in, in one piece.
00:38:45It was horrible, waiting for him to just come in, in one piece.
00:38:49We got in our little hire car, Damon curled up in a little ball in the back seat.
00:39:19He kind of vaguely pointed me in the right direction for the airport.
00:39:24The plane was utterly silent.
00:39:28And every now and then you'd hear somebody having a cry, and it was utterly silent.
00:39:35Everyone in the team was just drained of any ability to comprehend.
00:39:47Comprehend?
00:40:00I didn't want to go to any funerals.
00:40:18Jackie Stewart called me and asked me, are you going to go to the funeral?
00:40:35And I said, I don't want to go, Jackie.
00:40:39Um, I don't want to go.
00:40:43And he said, you'll regret it for the rest of your life if you don't go.
00:40:46You have to go.
00:40:48So for me, that is like my dad telling me, you're going to the funeral, you know?
00:40:53Jackie was really close with my dad.
00:40:56He was of that generation, and he'd seen enough of his mates lose their lives.
00:41:00And so he knew the right thing to do.
00:41:03And I got on the plane and went to Ayrton's funeral and helped carry the coffin.
00:41:09The last funeral I'd been to was my dad's.
00:41:30It was hell, emotionally.
00:41:34It just brought back all those feelings, fears that I'd experienced
00:41:39when I'd been to my dad's funeral.
00:41:59Most people in the team, this was something they'd never experienced before.
00:42:03I had to tell my mum that one of her close friends and my dad's teammate, Jim Clark,
00:42:08died when I was six years old.
00:42:13I knew that my dad had experienced losing his friends in this sport,
00:42:18and I knew it was a reality.
00:42:19It was a real possibility.
00:42:22Did the loss of Jimmy make you feel any more vulnerable?
00:42:25Well, yes, quite.
00:42:26I mean, that was horrible.
00:42:28And of course, it really brings it home with a terrible jolt.
00:42:33And you just, you know, you just feel empty.
00:42:35And it's, you know, it's a terrible time for any driver.
00:42:40And it's very difficult to describe loss and how it affects you.
00:42:44But you've just, you've just got to draw a blank across it.
00:42:51What he went through with Jim Clark was absolutely horrific.
00:42:55He literally picked up the pieces and put them in the truck
00:42:58and telling the mechanics to get the car back to the UK,
00:43:02and we'll work out what happened later.
00:43:10I did admire him enormously for his stoicism and his ability to cope
00:43:17with these really extreme situations.
00:43:21I wanted to be as responsible as him.
00:43:37If I could be of any help or provide any kind of comfort or solace,
00:43:42the only way I could do that would be to produce the results
00:43:45that they'd worked so hard for.
00:43:51And I loved this week.
00:45:01I mapped onto the story of my dad and Jim Clark in that the first race they won after losing Jim Clark was the Spanish Grand Prix.
00:45:11I understood something about my dad in that process.
00:45:21This victory must go to everyone at Williams. We've been through terrible times and also to all the fans at Ed Centre who said to me that they would be very pleased to see the Williams team do well. And so really to everyone, thank you very much.
00:45:49Thank you very much.
00:46:51Thank you very much.
00:46:53My best chance to show what I can do is going to be at the British Grand Prix.
00:47:01I've got pole position and he didn't like that.
00:47:07I've got pole position and he didn't like that.
00:47:21During the warm-up, the rules are you follow the pole guy to the grid.
00:47:31So he does this weird thing where he shoots off and then he overtakes me.
00:47:43And then we had a restart and he did it again.
00:47:47He's overtaken me twice now.
00:47:53What is going on?
00:47:57What is going on?
00:48:01He played his games.
00:48:08But this time he got penalised and I won the race.
00:48:12It felt great.
00:48:24And I was beginning to close the gap.
00:48:26The Princess of Wales presents Damon Mule.
00:48:42By the time we get to Japan, the championship was a real possibility.
00:48:48But they brought Nigel back again.
00:48:52Why are you guys not behind me?
00:48:55He can't win the championship.
00:48:58If he's going to take championship points off of me, why would you do it?
00:49:02I had a bit of a sulk on and Patrick, he gave me a kind of talking to about my attitude.
00:49:10At that point I just thought, do you know what? Screw all of you.
00:49:15If you cannot be grateful for what I have done and tried to do for your team
00:49:21and you think I'm just a misery guts, I'm just going to race for myself.
00:49:27In a way it released me.
00:49:29It released me from the feeling of obligation to them.
00:49:36It was like going back to racing bikes.
00:49:41It was just freedom.
00:49:59I have to beat Michael.
00:50:08If I didn't, it was over.
00:50:15It got quite dark because it was so wet and cloudy.
00:50:18He got in front of me.
00:50:32I can see the light on his gearbox and I thought, if I lose sight of that, he's gone.
00:50:38So I'm literally driving just looking at the red dot and thinking, just keep following that light.
00:50:46I ended up on the road ahead of him.
00:50:56I could see he was going to catch me at the last lap.
00:51:04This is it.
00:51:06In my head, I said, Ayrton, if you're up there, I could do with a hand.
00:51:10And something happened.
00:51:12My foot went to the floor.
00:51:14My arms are like moving in a way that I felt like it wasn't my hands.
00:51:16And then I'm going around turn two and through the Ss, absolutely like a bat out of hell.
00:51:22I'm released from this conscious driving that I've been doing up until now.
00:51:27I'm absolutely, absolutely like a bat out of hell.
00:51:30And then I'm going around turn two and through the Ss, absolutely like a bat out of hell.
00:51:34I'm released from this conscious driving that I've been doing up until now.
00:51:45I'm absolutely committed to going as fast as possible, come with me.
00:51:58I just felt like I've been visited by some sort of spirit.
00:52:04David Hill wins the Japanese Grand Prix to close the World Championship gap between himself and Michael Schumacher to just one point.
00:52:34David Hill wins the Japanese Grand Prix to close the World Championship gap between himself and Michael Schumacher.
00:52:41So we're not sure that this is my relationship with Michael Schumacher.
00:52:43Oh, yeah.
00:52:45We'll be there.
00:52:46The Australian Grand Prix will decide
00:53:16the 1994 World Championship.
00:53:19Never has a World Championship been as close for ten years now.
00:53:27I was so close.
00:53:31Simple maths.
00:53:33Neither must finish, then he's the World Champion.
00:53:37I come in front of him, I'm the World Champion.
00:53:41It was like we just literally got the cars off the plane from Suzuka
00:53:46and just restarted the race in Adelaide.
00:53:52Got a great start, the race was on.
00:53:55Gradually, he started to eek away a bit of a gal.
00:54:12No, it's cracked me.
00:54:15We got to this part of the track where you couldn't see the next guy.
00:54:21He'd gone round a 90-degree left.
00:54:24Michael disappears.
00:54:27You see him scrabbling to get back on the track.
00:54:31This car was damaged.
00:54:32Now's my chance.
00:54:33Now's my chance.
00:54:38Oh, out goes Schumacher.
00:54:40The German is out of the Australian Grand Prix.
00:54:46And Damon Hill only has to keep going to be World Champion of 1994,
00:54:51but can he keep going?
00:54:54Schumacher should have known his car was damaged.
00:54:56Damon had the line.
00:54:57That was a desperate manoeuvre by Schumacher
00:55:00to stop Damon Hill to win the championship.
00:55:18Michael Schumacher waiting for Damon Hill to come round,
00:55:20but he must know by now that the Englishman is in trouble.
00:55:28Damon Hill's shaking his head.
00:55:30Damon Hill's shaking his head.
00:55:39Damon Hill retires from the Australian Grand Prix
00:55:42and the 1994 World Championship has been won by Michael Schumacher.
00:55:48Come on, Schumacher.
00:55:49Come on, Schumacher.
00:56:18The Englishman's
00:56:35MUSIC PLAYS
00:57:05Is he looking in the mirror?
00:57:07Yeah.
00:57:13Frank and Patrick were very stoic, not in their nature to complain.
00:57:17The FIA should have looked at it.
00:57:23But they didn't.
00:57:28Well, the world's just seen all that.
00:57:30Good.
00:57:33I was drained at the end of 94.
00:57:37I had to do a load of PR.
00:57:56It just ran from one season straight into the next,
00:57:58and I think I was very on edge, tired and drained.
00:58:09He hadn't had even time to process what happened to Ayrton.
00:58:17And he just bulldozed his way through.
00:58:19The Williams team, they have the same engine, and there's no difference between us.
00:58:29Maybe then the difference is in the drivers.
00:58:33Some can keep it for the whole race, this performance, and some do for one lap.
00:58:38Damon, congratulations on the first pole of the year.
00:58:40How do you feel about the Benetton?
00:58:41The only thing I could say is that I've learned from last year never to underestimate the guy.
00:58:50Michael Schumacher had this imperious air about him.
00:58:53He was naturally very confident, very smart guy, and he never wanted to give anybody anything to go on.
00:58:56Michael Schumacher had this imperious air about him.
00:59:11He was naturally very confident, very smart guy, and he never wanted to give anybody anything to go on.
00:59:17The moment he was inside that paddock, he had a war around himself.
00:59:26He wasn't going to show any sign of emotion about anything.
00:59:30He knew when somebody was weak.
00:59:33He treated his competitors with an air of disdain.
00:59:37In a way, you're beating them already by doing that, because that irritates any competitor.
00:59:43They're not regarded as worthy.
00:59:45Would you ever consider being in the same team as Damon Hill?
00:59:50I don't have a problem to be in the same team as Damon Hill.
00:59:54And I'm sure he would accept to be second driver then, so...
00:59:58And it got under my skin.
01:00:03But he also worked on Frank and Paci.
01:00:07They also regarded him as being the kind of driver they'd prefer to have rather than me.
01:00:15Damon, what is his advantage on Michael Schumacher?
01:00:19Um, I'm not sure that he has an advantage. We'll have to see in the race.
01:00:22And you start to doubt yourself.
01:00:26Off goes Damon Hill, out of the race!
01:00:30And Michael Schumacher takes the lead!
01:00:32Being in from the one is a very exposing experience.
01:00:41If you have an ounce of doubt, it's found the crack in your armour and it's straight into the central nervous system.
01:00:48Because you, yourself, might believe they might be part of that as true.
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01:01:33Down here.
01:01:34Down here.
01:01:35My dad was good at it. I wasn't cut out for it. I didn't want to be pushed into the limelight.
01:01:49Being pushed forward because you're the son of.
01:01:56If your dad is the star of the show, then who are you?
01:02:03He was really, really trying hard.
01:02:05To make this thing happen, I think he felt there were lots of things trying to stop him from achieving that.
01:02:13He would try to make situations as difficult as they could possibly be to kind of rev himself up.
01:02:20To get him into that laser focus that he would need to function at his highest level.
01:02:28On occasion, it involved annoying me so much that I would bite back.
01:02:36We were in the motorhome. He started having this argument with me, which is completely ridiculous.
01:02:43And I just thought, oh, do you know what? I can't do this.
01:02:46And I picked up this massive big flower display and just lobbed it at Damon.
01:02:51And then went storming off.
01:02:53It was not nice being used as the wind-up.
01:03:01I was anxious, too anxious to prove other people wrong.
01:03:08And I was angry.
01:03:12And anger is your worst enemy in racing.
01:03:20It will get you to do something stupid.
01:03:22And this is really hotting up to a tremendous battle between the top two and the championship.
01:03:29Well, this is what the championship should be about.
01:03:31Two drivers, the very top of their careers, battling for the leader.
01:03:36I was catching Michael.
01:03:40And he would have known that.
01:03:41There was something in the way he opened the door in that corner.
01:03:59And I got suckered into a move.
01:04:03Oh, Hill's off, Hill's off.
01:04:04Oh, disaster. What has happened to Damon Hill?
01:04:07Oh, he's hit.
01:04:08The two cars have collided.
01:04:09And David has tried to pass Michael Schumacher, and the two cars collided.
01:04:19For the back page of The Sun, it says the words Pratt.
01:04:24And it's a quote from your team boss, the guy that employs you.
01:04:32That hurts.
01:04:39The second time now, I'm in front of Damon, and he took away the possibility for me to extend the lead towards him.
01:04:54Well, fundamentally, that was a mistake from Damon Hill. I think he underestimated where Michael Schumacher was going to break.
01:05:14It's a disgusted, angry Michael Schumacher walked back with Damon Hill.
01:05:23Damon, your opinion is important for us.
01:05:25Because we only have Schumacher.
01:05:28We're going to be late for the helicopter.
01:05:29All right, I'll say something.
01:05:30Yeah, OK.
01:05:32I just want to know why Michael was going so slowly.
01:05:35Why does he suddenly go so slowly in the middle of the chicane like that?
01:05:38You know?
01:05:38He was going flat out every lap up until then.
01:05:41We're going flat out.
01:05:42And suddenly, he's going about 20 k's an hour slower.
01:05:46The peak of it came in Suzuka.
01:05:48I had a nightmare race.
01:05:53Off goes Damon Hill, bouncing across the gravel.
01:05:59And this time, he is out of the race.
01:06:02Well, words fail me.
01:06:10And I remember going to the changing room, and there was Frank and Patrick in one side of the room.
01:06:18I suddenly thought, I want to cry.
01:06:28It's gone so bad.
01:06:29I wouldn't blame them if they sat me on the spot.
01:06:38And I did go into the depression.
01:06:39It was just that kind of cycle of confusion.
01:06:51Why is this happening to me?
01:06:54Why did you run off two times at the same corner?
01:06:58Aren't you frustrated?
01:06:59Yes.
01:07:01Demo?
01:07:02So it's really funny to see you laughing.
01:07:07Well, if you don't laugh, you cry.
01:07:10So it's better to laugh.
01:07:13Are there sometimes moments in your life when you want to stop racing?
01:07:18Well, there have been a few this year.
01:07:23Okay.
01:07:23Damon was just 21 when I met him.
01:07:45You know, it's not that long ago that his father had died, and...
01:07:48There was something about his seriousness, and the fact that he was a survivor of this awful thing, and he was still standing.
01:08:02I thought, I'll be okay with him. You know, I'll be absolutely okay with him.
01:08:08Because I think he understood something about life that most of the people around me at the time had no understanding of.
01:08:18I had a lovely childhood, and when my dad died, it all went horribly to pieces.
01:08:40And the rest of my time has been spent trying to put it back to heaven again.
01:08:43Was I a racing driver just simply because my dad was one?
01:08:51I felt I had to go through all of this pain to put right everything that went wrong.
01:08:56But the truth is not that simple.
01:09:01You can't go back and fix things. That's the bottom line.
01:09:05You can make facsimiles of what was in the past, but you can't go back and fix things.
01:09:19Before I can start being me.
01:09:24Before I can be the person that is not just copying his dad.
01:09:27Not just a facsimile, not just an echo.
01:09:32I needed to let go of the past.
01:09:44Well.
01:09:47There you go, Dad.
01:09:48I'm a bit nervous.
01:09:53I've got the knot in my stomach.
01:09:56It'd be a big disappointment then for you if he didn't win.
01:10:00No.
01:10:01As long as he's back safely, I don't mind.
01:10:04Deep down, you want him to be the fastest runner here, don't you?
01:10:07No, I don't want him to be a competitive person at all.
01:10:10I want him to enjoy his life.
01:10:12You don't think he can enjoy his life by winning.
01:10:16I don't think, I don't want him to always feel it just because he hasn't been the best at something that he's failed.
01:10:20I think that's a terrible thing to have.
01:10:34Georgie is a, is a constant.
01:10:42She's not someone who values the things that a lot of people think are important.
01:10:55She could take it or leave it, the world championship.
01:10:58But she was very aware of how much it meant to me.
01:11:03Damon, Damon, no one.
01:11:04Damon, Damon, Damon, Damon.
01:11:07The 1996 Formula One World Championship Grand Prix season will be starting here at Melbourne.
01:11:17Frank Wilton said that you were a different fan when you arrived.
01:11:20Whatever.
01:11:22Oh, I don't know.
01:11:24I met my wife, really.
01:11:26That was, that was one thing.
01:11:28She came out and she's obviously a good influence on me.
01:11:35Have you won a championship?
01:11:37You've got to win the first race.
01:11:39I just became practical.
01:11:43Don't get involved in any issues.
01:11:45Just focus on your job.
01:11:47New track, new cars, new engines.
01:11:53Major driver changes.
01:11:56Michael Schumacher, who has gone to Ferrari.
01:12:00Damon Hill's new teammate, Jack Bielner, but in pole position.
01:12:03Jack got pole for his first ever Formula One race, which is an amazing achievement.
01:12:09But I was not prepared to let him have that.
01:12:14Damon Hill is all over the back of Villeneuve.
01:12:16There's obviously a lot of fraught competition between these two.
01:12:19The clubs are off.
01:12:21Michael had gone to Ferrari and they weren't quite ready yet.
01:12:23He wasn't that competitive.
01:12:24So it was between me and Jack.
01:12:28Damon Hill takes the lead ahead of Jack Bielder.
01:12:31Victory in Australia for Damon Hill.
01:12:37And he's equaled his great father.
01:12:4114 Grand Prix wins for son and father.
01:12:45I won the first three races in the season.
01:12:47I can't really describe it.
01:12:50It's been a long time since I've been leading the championship.
01:12:53Obviously, I just feel it's the top of the world at the moment.
01:12:55I mean, it's great.
01:12:56The next race was the Monaco Grand Prix.
01:13:17Damon, what does Monaco mean to you, especially concerning the success of your father here?
01:13:29It's a great record that he had.
01:13:30He won five times, which was beaten by Ayrton.
01:13:33He won six times.
01:13:34I'd like to win here.
01:13:35And then it would be Hill six and Senna six.
01:13:38But I think I'd like to win just for myself.
01:13:42Lacey is 28 seconds behind Damon Hill.
01:13:44Hill there continues to have this race totally under control.
01:13:47He's confident that he's really achieved new levels this year.
01:14:10And smoke out of the back of the Williams.
01:14:12Damon Hill, out of the Monaco Grand Prix.
01:14:19He was not destined to win this race.
01:14:33I knew that he's never going to be faint sailing from beating to end.
01:14:42I always knew that there was a middle bit of the season where your nerves are tested and your confidence could be shaken.
01:14:52Especially if you don't expect it.
01:14:55Damon Hill's future in Grand Prix motor racing has been thrown into doubt after being dropped by his Williams Renault team for next season.
01:15:03Hill, who leads this season's Drivers' Championship, had been negotiating a new contract with the team.
01:15:07Frank phoned me up and told me, listen, I'm just here to tell you that we've got to do what's right for the team.
01:15:14And that we've got a German driver coming.
01:15:17And you don't have a drive with us for next year.
01:15:26I'd like to give you the opportunity here today to speak to me, ask any questions you have.
01:15:30So that over the weekend I can concentrate on the job of winning the race.
01:15:34If you want to fly away, then I'm ready for you.
01:15:37Damon, the world at large would expect you to feel hurt, downcast, angry, disillusioned.
01:15:45What are your feelings?
01:15:52In a correct world, you'd be judged on your performances.
01:15:55And that would be rewarded with another opportunity to show what you can do.
01:16:01This deal was done at the end of 95.
01:16:03And it was linked to the long-term plan for Frank to get BMW engines.
01:16:09German driver, BMW engines.
01:16:11And you're just a horn in that game.
01:16:19Hill's got away, Will.
01:16:21They got away.
01:16:22And now I'm fired up because I've been sacked.
01:16:25Damon Hill has impressed wisely.
01:16:29This must have been the most difficult weekend of his career.
01:16:41I get a bit of a gap when I suddenly think to myself,
01:16:44OK, Damon, calm down.
01:16:46You're driving like a maniac.
01:16:47Just knock it back a notch.
01:16:49And I come up to this chicane.
01:16:51All the focus went.
01:16:55Look, look, he's hit them.
01:17:01It's Hill.
01:17:02It's Damon Hill.
01:17:04He's out.
01:17:05He's out.
01:17:05You can see, from the way he is holding his head,
01:17:18that he's absolutely distraught.
01:17:23It was my mistake.
01:17:24I got caught out.
01:17:25But I thought, I'm not done yet.
01:17:40Give Debbie kiss my night.
01:17:41Last race.
01:17:45Bye-bye.
01:17:47Got one more chance.
01:17:48Have a nice sleep.
01:17:54Anything can happen.
01:17:55Damon can make a mistake.
01:17:56The car can break down.
01:17:57And that can happen to me as well.
01:17:58Uh, so, uh, until the last lap, uh, of the next race,
01:18:02we'll, uh, fight for it.
01:18:08Stepping into the car,
01:18:10even though I haven't had much sleep,
01:18:12because I could not sleep,
01:18:13I just thought,
01:18:14I've done everything I possibly can do.
01:18:18I've given 100%,
01:18:20you know?
01:18:22I honestly had.
01:18:24I didn't care about the doubts of others.
01:18:47I just thought,
01:18:48I want to win.
01:18:54I don't know.
01:18:56The Japanese Brawl Frears.
01:19:01And a great start by Damon Hill
01:19:03and the 11th cast.
01:19:14Well, what a superb start there from Damon Hill.
01:19:17His relief will be absolutely enormous,
01:19:19because not only has he got away first,
01:19:21he will know that Phil Nerve is well back in his mirrors.
01:19:24And there he is in field now,
01:19:26and he's down in sixth position,
01:19:28so he really has got it all to know.
01:19:33Damon has got to play very cool indeed,
01:19:36as Gerhard Berger comes right up alongside him
01:19:39and goes over the curve at the chicane.
01:19:42Damon Hill rebuffed him,
01:19:43but at the same time,
01:19:44kept the Williams clear of the Benetton,
01:19:46and look at the gap,
01:19:47he's pulled out.
01:19:47Damon Hill has really got a great opportunity now.
01:19:55He's looking very, very good indeed.
01:19:57Oh, watch it, Jonathan.
01:19:59We've all said that.
01:20:00Remember, at Monza,
01:20:02Damon Hill was in the lead.
01:20:04Come on, Leia,
01:20:05and on lap six,
01:20:06he hit that tar barrier.
01:20:07Well, there are no tar barriers to hit here.
01:20:09And here is Damon Hill, race leader.
01:20:25Damon Hill is going to rejoin.
01:20:27Is he just in front of the Ferrari?
01:20:29Yes, he is!
01:20:30Well, that is in fourth place,
01:20:36Jacques Villeneuve.
01:20:37Now, things are really, really getting hot in Japan.
01:20:43Damon needs to keep pushing on pretty hard,
01:20:45because he will know
01:20:47that he can never underestimate
01:20:48that Canadian teammate of his, Jacques Villeneuve.
01:20:54And that is Villeneuve.
01:20:56He's Villeneuve.
01:20:58The wheel goes past him.
01:20:59He goes over.
01:21:00He's in the crowd.
01:21:02Oh, my goodness.
01:21:02I do hope that nobody was hurt.
01:21:08Jacques is out.
01:21:09Jacques is out of the race.
01:21:15Going round,
01:21:17they said, Jacques's out.
01:21:20And they said,
01:21:21well done, you're world champion.
01:21:29Les Jones, who's one of Damon Hill's mechanics,
01:21:43that they passed on the good news to their driver,
01:21:46but Damon has not responded at all.
01:21:48He's concentrating very hard on the job in hand.
01:21:51Yeah, that's called keeping your mind on what is really happening.
01:21:57This is the last black payment.
01:21:59It's a long road,
01:22:13and you can say it started when my dad died.
01:22:18The team's in their blue and white caps matching the helmet of Damon Hill,
01:22:37which matches the helmet of his great father, Graham Hill.
01:22:40He is almost home.
01:22:46This is something that many people didn't think could possibly happen today.
01:22:50They thought Damon would drive a cautious race,
01:22:53but he fought.
01:22:54He fought from second on the grid.
01:22:56He passed Jacques Villeneuve.
01:22:57He took the lead.
01:22:59He stayed there.
01:23:00And David Hill exits the chicane.
01:23:13And wins the Japanese Grand Prix.
01:23:18And I've got to stop,
01:23:20because I've got a lot in my front.
01:23:22He just literally completed the mission.
01:23:40And I've got to stop.
01:24:10And suddenly the impact hits me.
01:24:25Hits me what I've done.
01:24:28What I've been able to drag out of myself.
01:24:33Aware of the journey that you've been on.
01:24:35And also, how much I miss my dad.
01:24:47And how much he would have liked to have known about his son.
01:24:54But in some other curious way,
01:24:57you kind of feel like he does not.
01:24:59Well done to Damon Hill, the New World Champion.
01:25:29Daddy, get lucky.
01:25:443, 2, 1.
01:25:46Let's go.
01:26:16Let's go.
01:26:46Let's go.