Damon Hill won the 1996 Brazilian GP on this day to clinch his 15th GP victory, surpassing his father Graham's total. Damon lost his father in an air crash on a foggy November night in 1975. Against all expectations – including his own – he followed Graham into the family business, and won on his own terms. In today's Great Read, he speaks candidly about the man he knew, from the perspective of a son who is older than his father ever had a chance to be
Forty years ago the lives of six families were devastated as Graham Hill's Piper Aztec crashed on a foggy Hertfordshire November evening. A day earlier 15-year-old Damon Hill, preparing for school, had watched his father readying to leave, headed for Paul Ricard to oversee the test of the new Hill GH2 Formula 1 car. Just another snapshot moment in the hectically busy life of 'Mr Monaco', unique winner of motor racing's triple crown, only months since retired from the cockpit to begin a new phase of life. It was the last time Damon saw him...
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