“IT was awful and today I feel tension I experienced, “Damon Hill says that he heard on television in November 1975. That his father, Graham, two-way formula one world champion, was died in a plane crash. Hill had to leave the living room to find his mother and tell her what happened.
“It was like you had a nuclear bomb and I threw it on my mom. Of course he stressed the fact that I was 15, and that’s when you have a defense to deal with the team.”
The scope of the hill is trapped in movement New Ski Documentary which follows its decision to follow his father in the engine racing and eventually harmonized it by conquering F1 championship in 1996. years. Early in the movie his wife, Georgie, recalls that she looked like the most sad people she had ever met.
“I was angry with the world,” Hill tells me. “I was angry. I would have a belly full of growing up that the son of a famous race driver and the people I was interested in that. I just wanted a normal life in which people don’t give a damn about it and that I could be. Georgie was. Georgie was. Georgie was. Georgie was. Georgie was. Georgie was. Georgie was the father. “
Six months after they started seeing each other Georgie suddenly realized why he looked like that was Beref. They drove past the cemetery in which Hill’s father was buried and, finally, the dam broke.
“I remember that as yesterday,” says Hill. “I Thought We Were Going On A Trip Down Memory Lane and I’d Show Her Where I’ve Hit Me Completely Unexpectedly. Until Then and Had Moments Where The Wept About My Dad But There’s Something About Crying Which Soothes And Having A Good Old Sob Is A Good Thing. “
He talks about his mischievous desire in the film that he was on the plane with his father. Death, in 15 years, seemed easier than life. “I felt it right after the accident,” Hill says. “I was very upset and I wanted to be with my father. If I’d be in a plane that would be okay, in the co-pilot, and I loved being with him, and I was a fascinating guy.”
Has the hill advised? “The closest we had to have been a day or two after he died. My school chaplain arrived at our house and wanted to be in some way, but it wasn’t sad in that days.” People didn’t even heard about it. “
While the child’s child never wanted to be a race driver because he was placed motorcycles. But in the middle of the 20th, he solved to follow his father in F1. “There was a rather juvenile feeling of loss and try to regain something from the past. We lost life and our world and I wanted to pick it up in a way.”
Georgie said that one day it would become a world champion. Hill laughter. “I always said such nonsense like it. But I’m determined and I need a lot of determination to get those ladder in F1.”
Hill was 30 years old when his F1 Career began in 1991. year as a test driver Williams. His big pause came two years later when he was promoted in the race in addition to the newly announced Alain Prost, and then by triple world champion, which replaced Nigel Mansel. There is astonishing, if it is strange fun, scenes in a documentary in which the hills of movies Georgie reads the contract as it has cooled out of its old fax machine. He holds videos even though he barely believes Frank Williams determined that the hill should pay his flights and accommodation.
The hills are silly and says, “Then we thought faxes were the spacific technology.” But he adds insight into Machines F1. “Frank was especially smart and I’d tell him because I wasn’t terribly impressed how much they would pay me:” What about the trip? “He said, ‘We’ll pay for it.’ I said, “What about Georgie?” And he said, “OK. We’ll fix that. “Now I have to pay my trip! So you really get it right Formula 1 You must pay attention to the details. “
I say hill how Williams interviewing It turned out to be one of my strong gigs. They are blushing compassionate. “I could never talk to Frank. People said they talked to Frank and everything was wonderful and I’d go:” honestly? “I couldn’t get two words from him and to dry and stared at tea. I would say,” Do you want me to leave now? “
Hill showed an incredible solution and great skill to become a world champion for Williams. But near the season in 1996. years, Williams called cold that the hill would be replaced next year Heinz-Harald Frenzen. The team was due to start a partnership with BMV and the employment of the German driver who made business sense. The hill was axed, but he clicked the championship anyway and left Williams as the second most successful team driver, with 21 race victories behind the attic.
“You can’t condemn people to do it when they have a mass company that will start,” says Hill. “I think he felt something – not remorse, but it was uncomfortable to do that to me. Last, said something like,” We should have retained you. “It was a little late, but he still appreciated. He said some nice things about me after I left. He called me a heavy bastard, which is a compliment of Frank.”
The documentary offers fascinating insights into Michael Schumacher and Airton Senna. The Archive shot shows how Schumacher was irked Hill’s challenge. There is a scene in which, after Hill won the race, Schumacher hit his rival capacity. It was meant to look playful, but it is a small gesture down by frustration and anger.
“It was uncomfortable and he didn’t know how to answer someone who beat him,” says Hill Schumacher. “It was an awkward moment. I tried to talk to him and it wasn’t possible. Our values were different.
“I wasn’t as good as he did, and I would never pretend to be. But if I had it. But if I could go out with myself, and I know how absolutely waived for him, sometimes I was a match.
Georgie reveals how Senna, who shifted to Williams to drive past the hill, especially talked on her simply before He died in Imola In 1994. He told her not to take care of Damon and convinced her she would be good to get well with Williams.
“We had Loss (Austrian Driver) Roland Ratzenberger the day before. They were all aware of that awful presence and I think he wanted to convince Georgie about me and the team. It is very flow. “
Hill was a Pallbearer on Senna’s funeral and the memory of it today. “Oh my God,” says, “Ambassadors and presidents came from all over the world, on this state funeral. This was something that was the best thing in Brazil. At the time they need a hero, he was still doing it today.”
Does every driver wear anything like a frozen senna and other F1 giants? “It’s too early to say. They’re still very young, but I think I’m going back when you had James Hunt and Niki Laud, Prost and Senna. But it’s worth it because it may be officers.
Is Max Verstappen who is approaching Senna and Schumacher’s altitudes? “Yes, He’s in That Mold. Max is discipline and honey, lasted to fight. But the whole point of the sport is to be up against the foe or Nemesis Who Defines You. I Don’t Think F1 Has The Same Gravitas As The Era We’re Talking About. From Their Perspective This Is Serious Combat – But I don’t know how to max’s serious. Intil they do, he hasn’t got to be a tough old boot to get Alan Jones, Lauda and Hunt when he was in fire. They were brutally serious.
“Max and (43-year) Fernando Alonso are the same. Max always gives 100%. The same with Fernandoom, who is tricky and smart. I wouldn’t want to play tickets with him.”
Which of the younger drivers impressed him? “Oscar Piastri is interesting. He has a calm and trust in himself who is not excessive. Charles Leclerc, but it may be too comfortable in Ferrari in Lewis Hamilton), which makes him fight any position.”
And Lando Norris, who is locked in the fight for the championship with Piastra, his team and Verstappen? “Lando is very talented,” says Hill. “Он је надарен и паметан, али не осећам да је довољно забринут да би могао да га изгуби. Била бих забринута. Била бих забринута да ће се натерати друго-најбоље до Осцара. Не знам да ли не знам да ли схвата да ли схвата да ли схвата последице.“
In his quest to heal and fits his father, the hill would not be beaten in 1996. years. He remembers how, before a crucial race in Japan, said a few words prayer to Senna. “There was an extraordinary thing,” says a hill until she remembers a master’s driving, as if he had never driven before, as if he had found a mysterious way to channel the shine of Sinne.
“I don’t have a real explanation for what happened none than we are limited by our conscious brain to be careful and our limbic system is much capable than we ever give credit.
“If we can only get out of the way, we can make extraordinary things and that a little prayer has released me. I would not beat that. I would not say that there was an experience in a body because I was there in the car.
The hill became the world champion, at 36. years, and I say, “I’m proud to get to the top of any sport, but I paid to respect, but I paid me to respect.” I respect if I saved it, but I paid I brought to happen. “
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