Damon Hill
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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.
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What's the point of that?
If you want to get full value from me and I'm going to get anything from this partnership, this is what I need and it's your job to give me it.
And that's taken a year to do that.
So, yeah, he's very definitely been part, a very important part of me
given the car where they're at now.
But yeah, I don't think it's like this all-seeing, super-wise sort of wizard guru that it's sometimes portrayed as.
It's just pretty simple, really.
It's just saying, I can deliver you much more lap time if you give me what I need, but you haven't got it at the moment.
Yeah, that toughness, that mental toughness of the determination was always there at the core, even when the confidence wasn't.
But I think he was thinking, because of that drive and determination, he was thinking, despite the lack of confidence, I've got to give myself a chance here.
I've got to maximise my opportunity and then see where I'm at.
Because where he was at in 25 was so compromised by...
the car and the era of regulation, that he knew that that wasn't a fair representation and that he could do much better than that.
But how much better?
That's where the confidence gap would be.
And I think that determination to not just throw the towel in, because he'd been there before.
He'd considered throwing the towel in at the end of 21 after what happened in Abu Dhabi.
but he still came back.
It's just that drive to keep on delivering and keep on challenging himself that made him hang on, really, and drove him to get those changes made in the team, to see then where he was.
If he'd got all those changes and the regulation changes and everything like that, and he was still three-tenths off Charles Leclerc, two and a half, then I don't think you would have seen...
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