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‘I was angry at the world’: Damon Hill on pain of his father’s death and how it fuelled his rise

Former F1 world champion’s gives a moving insight into dealing with his grief as a 15-year-old, and reflects on driving with Senna and against Schumacher“It was awful and to this day I feel the tension that I experienced,” Damon Hill says of the moment he heard on television in November 1975 that his father, Graham, the two-time Formula One world champion, had died in a plane accident. Hill had to leave the living room to find his mother and tell her what had happened.“It was like having a nuclear bomb and I dropped it on my mum. Of course it was accentuated by the fact I was 15, which is when you haven’t got the defences to deal with it.” Continue reading...


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