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Formula 1 flashback: Damon Hill on McLaren's 'insult' offer
In 1996 Damon Hill followed in his father's footsteps and won the Formula 1 drivers world championship. It would remain one championship because, after his successful year at Williams, he was no longer wanted at the team. A fairly unusual situation for a world champion, who are often wanted to be retained. In 1997 Williams raced with the new star Jacques Villeneuve and the promising German Heinz-Harald Frentzen, meaning that there was no room for Hill at the team. Read more McLaren drivers look forward to Mercedes meltdown in Netflix's Drive to Survive A reason for this could have been Williams' swap from a Renault engine to a BMW and the German company might have insisted on...
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