Damon Hill
Damon Hill
Damon Graham Devereux Hill, OBEis a British former racing driver. He is the son of Graham Hill, and is the only son of a Formula One world champion to win the title. He started racing on motorbikes in 1981, and after minor success moved on to single-seater racing cars. But although he progressed steadily up the ranks to the International Formula 3000 championship by 1989, and was often competitive, he never won a race at that level...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth17 September 1960
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It worries me sometimes the way some people get so worked up that they have to push and shove to get an autograph. If they are there, I will try and sign as many as I possibly can, but when people start pushing, you have little kids being crushed and I'd rather not be involved creating that kind of trouble.
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Pipelines in general used to be located primarily in rural areas, but as populations and communities grow and develop, more people are nearby.
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You have to do everything possible for the safety of the competitors, spectators and the people who work in F1. But we mustn't emasculate it. We mustn't take away the spectacle. At the moment, we have a good balance, but I will never give up working and pushing the FIA to make changes in the interests of safety. Everywhere you look, there is an opportunity to hurt yourself and we don't want F1 to be marred.
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I was happy in Hungary, but I would have been happier if it had been a great race where I'd come out on top-like at Spa, where I enjoyed myself. I really didn't enjoy myself in Hungary. It was more like slow torture.
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When you get into a pack of cars, then you feel the problem worst, handicapping the driver and handicapping our ability to race. When there's a crosswind, the cars suffer badly as well, which makes them even more difficult to control. They are always fun to drive, but motor racing should be about the best drivers racing the best cars, which offers the best challenge, and my feeling now is that we have come to a bit of a cul-de-sac.
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You learn by experience, and overcoming setbacks make you stronger and means you are prepared for any eventuality. Now I am who I am, slightly batty in some ways, but in other ways fairly level-headed.
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He didn't enjoy (Bahrain), it was patently obvious.
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Failure should be nothing more than an embarrassment, like ending up in a gravel trap, rather than spending weeks in hospital.
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At the start of the year, I felt that given the machinery, there were bound to be places where I would win because of sheer chance. I didn't want to rely on that because I knew I had to show my ability. So I looked at the season and made an assessment as to where my best opportunities might come.
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People don't want to pick up their papers and see that everything went to plan and this was what was expected. So there is a hype factor because the journalists have to make more of it. I find it amusing. Look at the way they report on the England football team... I don't think anyone really believes all of it.
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Compressor stations are generally safe. We have requirements to make sure the communities these are operating in are safe.
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This is not normal for an operator to have so many incidents in such a short amount of time.
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This is out of the ordinary. We took this action because we wanted to get the operator to focus on exactly what could be going wrong.
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The whole experience is rising to the challenge every time. You never know what might happen. You might be talking to the future world champion.