PlanetF1 recommendsįive key questions ahead of F1 2023 pre-season testing in Bahrain “That’s how I got off two wheels and into four wheels.
“I won a lot of races and actually that happened at roughly the same time that I took up car racing – or my mum met a person who said: ‘He ought to get off that bike and try cars because he’s going to hurt himself'”, Hill added. The Hampstead-born Englishman was successful on two wheels but would be persuaded into car racing, with his mother fearful about the dangers of motorcycle racing. He didn’t have a driving licence and I do think my grandma passed on some experience through genetics.” My grandad never drove a car in his life. He had a bad limp because of a crash on a motorbike. “I do wonder about that because my dad actually started off on motorbikes, he also did scrambling, and broke his leg quite badly. “I used to go off with my mates at home in Mill Hill and we’d go on adventures on our bicycles. “I saw two brothers riding this monkey bike round and, obviously, part of my brain is going: ‘That looks fun’ and I must have had ‘Can I have a go?’ written on my face or something because they let me have a go,” Hill told Fuelling Around. It was two-wheeled machines that sparked his love for motorsport. Having lost the family breadwinner, the Hills lost most of their financial fortune.ĭamon, who was 15 when his father died, worked as a labourer and motorcycle courier. Bruce McLaren and Sir Stirling Moss even attended Hill’s christening.ĭamon’s father Graham Hill won the Formula 1 title in 19, going down as one of his generation’s greats before he was killed in a plane crash. His is a fascinating F1 story, having been born straight into a racing family.
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The British driver took an alternative route to the grid compared to many F1 champions. Damon Hill’s four-wheeled journey took him all the way to the 1996 Formula 1 title but back at the beginning, he was reluctant to get off his motorbike.
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