Damon Hill

speaker

2,334 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 15 Aug

Damon Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 3.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

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

So I wouldn't say it's an entirely fair competition.

comparison that eighteen season, but yeah, Battle did make more mistakes.

There was a a time when

Red Bull were having to take down force off the car because it was basically saturating the tires.

Um and just the the the core of the tire was overheating.

And I spoke to someone from Perelli at the time who said that if we had tire war tires that could withstand

the loads that that car can put upon them, Vettel would be winning by a lap.

So you've got to say that because of the car that he was in, they they really punished Red Bull, those those tyres, because there was a period where the Red Bull was so much superior to the others, it was actually being disguised, even though they were dominating regardless, the level of superiority was being disguised by the tyres.

So you'd say in that

sense because of the car and the effect of the t the the the car upon the tires, it was Vettel who was disadvantaged the most.

But in terms of what they're doing, I think anything that limits how hard you can push the car is gonna punish the great drivers against the okay drivers, the the great versus the good drivers.

But you here we're we're we're talking exclusively about champion drivers.

Yeah, i it's impossible to say.

Uh y y you'd say that they're all disadvantaged relative to the rest of the field, but relative to each other, I don't know.

Yeah, I don't think you could call it.

But um yeah, I think i in in in career terms, uh Vettel was hurt the most because just because he he wasn't able to fully enjoy the advantage that that car really had for a time.

Yeah, and there was always that contrast between you not putting quite enough energy into the fronts to get them ready for turn one of your qualifying lap, um but at the same time not having their ears too hot.

So yeah, he could be caught in that trap because he didn't naturally put a lot of energy into the front.

And he did make the corners go on a long time.

Showing 41–60 of 2,334 · page 3 of 117