Damon Hill doesn’t understand why Fernando Alonso has chosen to leave Alpine and drive for Aston Martin next season. Silly season was sparked into life when Sebastian Vettel announced that he was to retire at the end of the 2022 campaign. Soon after the German did so, shockwaves were sent through the sport with Aston
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1996 world champion Damon Hill is amazed at Fernando Alonso’s ability to continue performing at the very highest athletic level even at his age. Alonso returned with Alpine last season after two years away having left McLaren at the end of the 2018 season. In his first spell in the pinnacle of motorsport, the Spaniard
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1996 Formula 1 world champion Damon Hill reckons that Ferrari lost their edge during their time away from competing for world championships. There was confusion during the French Grand Prix on Carlos Sainz’s side of the garage when he was called into the pits while passing Sergio Perez, and this was to serve a five-second
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Scuderia Ferrari saw the gap to Red Bull Racing increase substantially once again, after yet another disastrous weekend saw the team lose a potential race victory at the French Grand Prix. Charles Leclerc, who started on pole, was in complete control of the race, until a driver error saw him spin off at Turn 11
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Former McLaren and Ferrari driver Gerhard Berger hilariously dismissed 1996 world champion Damon Hill’s prediction that Sir Lewis Hamilton will win this weekend’s French Grand Prix. The Silver Arrows have been making a resurgence of late from their awful start to the season that saw them manage three podiums in the first seven rounds, two
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1996 world champion Damon Hill believes that Mick Schumacher has been galvanised by the thought of his Formula 1 career being at risk. Schumacher, along with fellow rookie Nikita Mazepin, failed to score points in a woefully uncompetitive Haas last season, but he out-qualified the Russian 20 times, asserting dominance over his team-mate. The German
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Red Bull’s Sergio Perez does not believe that the upgrades introduced by the team in recent races have been helping his cause. Perez out-qualified team-mate Max Verstappen twice in a row in Monaco and Azerbaijan and, while he went on to win the Monaco Grand Prix, he was comprehensively beaten in the race in Baku
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1996 F1 world champion Damon Hill has praised the stewards for their handling of the late incidents at the British Grand Prix on Sunday. Earlier in the afternoon, the stewards had given Yuki Tsunoda a penalty for wiping out AlpghaTauri team-mate Pierre Gasly at village but, asides from that, they showed a fair degree of
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1996 world champion Damon Hill affirms it is Max Verstappen’s intense focus on racing that has made him the champion he is today. Verstappen was born to two racing drivers – Former Formula 1 driver Jos, and former Formula A driver Sophie Kumpen. Jos is Dutch, and Sophie Belgian, and Max chose to race with
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1996 F1 world champion Damon Hill is concerned that Sir Lewis Hamilton may eventually suffer a concussion as a result of the “porpoising” he is experiencing in his Mercedes W13. The seven-time champion complained of severe back pain during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix as he finished fourth behind team-mate George Russell, who got his third
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