Damon Hill

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The Race F1 Podcast · Driving Style Secrets: We answer your questions about five 21st century greats · 15 Aug 2026 podcast

what the benefits were and and in what situation uh y you needed to apply it.

Yeah, it was uh when he was in F three at the time, um and uh when Tyrrell had a uh s a spare car, so basically they n they needed a sponsor it it for the second car in eighty one.

And it was uh eventually filled by McKelly Alberito because Rob couldn't bring the last little bit of money in time, so it went to Alberito who brought some sponsorship with him, I think.

uh Immela of eighty eighty one would it be and then uh yeah so th that that was that was when he would have made his breakthrough to Formula One and um he was also in a band uh a Rolling Stones tribute band called The Strolling Bones and he was saying that they were invited to perform late eighties maybe uh for McKay's birthday party.

And uh he said that was quite a

a a rueful moment, you know, just thought, yeah, I am, there's the sort of the clowns entertainment, you know, the the the in for for this guy uh and um who's had this Formula One career that um I was uh one time would have hoped it was me.

Yeah, it's it's

Getting comfortable running on the edge, that's what someone like that can do for you in the early stages of your career and that can mark you out as, you know, quicker than your peers.

But in terms of the specifics of style, if Lewis had been physiologically wired up in a different way so that his style wasn't that his style was a a more Jensen button

sort of you know um smoother input style, no matter how much his dad told him to break late, that wouldn't have been the quickest way for him.

So it it it does still it does still come around your basic physiology.

That's how it's that's how it's formed.

And how quickly you can get there and understand what it is that you need, then the the quicker you'll progress.

But um

Pushing towards a style that's uh alien to you how you're you're physi physiologically wired up will not work.

You it will not be the best you.

The best you will be the one that that fits best with how you are physic physiologically wired up.

Yeah, I I'd agree with that.

Um I'd probably the tire warrior cars I think were were pretty good in that in that regard, 'cause it it did give the drivers many different ways of being quick and many different ways of using the the four tires.

Um but yeah, it as the the Grand Effect cars it was yeah, it was more i a style that was imposed upon the drivers, wasn't it?

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