1982 is often remembered as one of the most bizarre and tragic F1 seasons but 1994 is close on it's tail. Alain Prost won the World Drivers Championship in 1993 at the wheel of the super technical Williams FW15C. For 1994 most of the technical wizardry, such as active suspension, traction control, power steering and power brakes were outlawed. This made the '94 cars very different beasts to the cars in 1993 and much less stable than their predecessors.
Constructors Champions Williams had signed Ayrton Senna from McLaren for 1994 and this led Alain Prost to retire. As many know the relationship between the two men was less than harmonious and Alain felt he had little else to prove behind the wheel of an F1 car with four World Championships and 51 race wins. Ayrton was still very driven but reading some of the history of this season one of Senna's key drivers was the need to beat Alain and on more than one occasion he asked Prost to come back and race against him.
Williams kept Damon Hill in the No. 2 seat and Damon carried the Zero on his car, as he had in 1993 as the World Champion wasn't competing so there was no number one car. McLaren replaced Senna with Mika Hakkinen and put Martin Brundle in the second seat, now with Peugoet engines rather than the Ford motors used in 1993.
The biggest challenge to the Williams team was to come from Michael Schumacher and the Benetton Ford team. This was to be a controversial season for both the driver and the team with suggestions that Benetton were not complying with rules regarding electronic driver aids and Schumacher was excluded from two races (more of that later).
14 teams entered the 1994 season and 46 drivers competed at some point during the year. 1994 also saw the return of Mercedes to F1, their first season in the sport since 1955, as engine supplier to the Sauber team. The cars were powered by engines from 8 different manufacturers with the Renault and Ford motors being the class of the field.
Below is the end of season driver photo, sadly very different to the one from the start of the season.
The season started in Brazil and to the delight of the home crowd their hero, Ayrton Senna, put his FW16 Williams on pole. Senna led at the start of the race but Schumacher jumped him at the pit stops. An incident on lap 35 saw an accident involving Eddie Irvine in the Jordan. Irvine was found to be at fault for launching Martin Brundle into a barrel roll and was banned from the next races. The Jordan team appealed, lost and Irvine's ban was extended to 3 races. Up at the front Senna was trying everything he knew to try and catch Schumacher but ended his race trying a bit too hard, spinning off on lap 56. Hill followed the German home whilst down in 6th Karl Wendlinger scored a point for Mercedes on their return to F1.
F1 has a strange habit of staging regional Grands Prix, presumably as the race promoters pay FOM sufficient cash to buy a race, and in 1994 there was a Pacific GP staged at Aidia in Japan and a European at Jerez. The Pacific race was up next. Senna was again on pole but was nurfed out of the race when spun by Mika Hakkinen and then hit by Nicola Larini who was deputising for Jean Alesi in the Ferrari. Schumacher won again, Berger was second in the Ferrari, Hill retired his Williams on lap 50 with transmission failure having worked his way back to second after dropping to ninth in the early stages of the race.
Imola.
What is there to say about this race that hasn't already been said? As an F1 fan since the late 70's I had seen accidents which led to the death of a driver but this hadn't happened since 1982. The event started badly with Rubens Barrichello having a huge crash in his Jordan. The Brazilian was knocked unconscious but had no other significant injuries. He wasn't allowed to race for the remainder of the weekend. In Saturday qualifying season débutante Roland Ratzenberger in the Simtek had a front wing failure and hit a concrete wall at a speed estimated at 190mph. The Austrian didn't survive. F1 was in shock, drivers didn't die in F1 cars anymore, or so we thought.
As ever in F1, even such tragic events are pushed to the back of drivers minds and the event continued. Senna was on pole Schumacher second. There was a race to win, points to be gained, titles to be fought over. At the start of the race Pedro Lamy ran into the back of JJ Lehto's Benetton which had stalled on the grid. This bought out the safety car which led the train around for four laps. At the restart Senna powered away in the lead, next time around his Williams went off the road at Tamburello and hit the concrete wall at the edge of the circuit. The race was red flagged, medical teams descended on the broken Williams. Senna was extracted from the car and taken to hospital after treatment at the circuit but he had suffered a major brain injury. He was placed on life support at the hospital but when this was removed that evening Senna died.
The race was restarted at 2:55 local time and the result would be aggregated over the two parts of the race. In what I still feel was one of the bravest acts by a GP driver Damon Hill was strapped into the cockpit of his Williams with no idea of the cause of his team mates accident. Berger led at the restart and Schumacher and Hill had a coming together which resulted in the Englishman having to pit for a new nose. Schumacher won the race ahead of Nicola Larini in the Ferrari. Mika Hakkinen was third and Damon Hill came back through the field to take a single point for sixth.
At Monaco the first two grid slots were left empty and the places painted with the Brazilian and Austrian flags to commemorate Senna and Ratzenberger. The FIA announced a variety of technical changes to improve driver safety which would be implemented in Spain and Canada. In free practice Karl Wendlinger had a huge accident in his Sauber which left him in a coma for 3 weeks. Sauber withdrew their cars from the rest of the weekend. Williams only entered a single car for Damon Hill but announced that the second car would be driven test driver David Coulthard and Nigel Mansell, when Mansell's Indycar commitments allowed. Schumacher took pole, Hill and Hakkinen tangled on the first lap, eliminating both. Schumacher went on to win the race with Martin Brundle second after choosing a different strategy to most of the other drivers. Away from the race, Pedro Lamy had an accident in testing for Lotus, dislocating his legs and breaking his wrist. Lotus announced that Alex Zannardi would replace him.
In Spain it was decided to introduce a temporary tyre chicane to reduce the speed of the cars. Personally, seeing F1 cars tiptoeing through a bunch of tyres piled up on the track is amongst the most ridiculous things I have seen in F1 but in the climate at that time no one complained.
Andrea Montermini, who replaced Roland Ratzenberger, had a accident which broke his ankle and chipped a bone in his heel in free practice. Schumacher took pole and was comfortably leading the race until he had gear selection problems. Left with only 5th the German continued and even managed to stop in the pits twice and get the car away without stalling. With only one gear Damon Hill easily passed Schumacher but at the end he was still second as other cars fell by the wayside. An astonishing achievement
In Canada another temporary chicane was installed and the various changes to the cars implemented. These included reduction in the size of the diffusers and front wing, improved driver head protection by raising the sides of the cockpit, increase in the weight of the car and strengthening of the wishbones. Holes were also cut in to the airboxes to try and reduce the power of the cars. Schumacher took pole and won the race, Hill was second.
For the French GP Nigel Mansell came back to Williams and was second on the grid to Hill. At the start Schumacher powered between the two Williams cars and never lost the lead. Mansell retired with transmission failure towards the end of the race, Hill followed Schumacher home. On the video below fast forward to about 7 minutes in and watch the speed the Benetton has compared to the Williams off the start line. There had been lots of rumours and muttering about Benetton using both a launch control system and traction control which were specifically prohibited. Events like this certainly didn't help quieten the rumours.
At Silverstone Damon Hill, much to the delight of the crowd, put his Williams on pole. During the formation lap, for whatever reason, Michael Schumacher decided to pass Hill and then let him back in front as they came to form up on the grid. After an aborted first start, due to Coulthard (now back in the Williams) stalling, the race got underway. As a result of not obeying the start procedure Schumacher was given a 5 second stop-go penalty. Benetton took offence at this and started negotiations with the race officials, instructing Schumacher to keep going. As a result of not serving the penalty within 3 laps Schumacher was black flagged. Benetton continued to ignore the officials and Schumie followed Damon home in second place. After the race Schumacher was disqualified and was given a two race ban. This was held on appeal and Schumacher took part in the next race in Germany.
The German crowd were to be disappointed for their hero Schumacher when Ferrari locked out the front row in Hockenheim. There was complete mayhem at the start and 10 cars failed to make it round the first lap. Damon Hill had a coming together with Ukyo Katayam's Tyrrell on the first lap and had to pit for a new nose, forcing David Coulthard to circulate for a second lap with a damaged car from the start line incident. Schumacher retired on lap 20 when his engine failed and Gerhard Berger went on to win the race. Behind the Ferrari the top six was made up of the two Ligiers, the two Footwork cars and the Larousse of Eric Comas. The other major incident of the race involved Jos Verstappen, who had taken over the second Benneton seat from JJ Lehto. During his pit stop the Benetton erupted in to flames. Jos was able to escape the car but it was yet another frightening incident for the 1994 season.
In Hungary Phillipe Alliot replaced Mika Hakkinen at McLaren who was banned for one race for causing the start line incident in Germany. Schumacher took pole, Schumacher won the race with Hill second. Jos Verstappen, sporting a very singed face, came home third.
Meanwhile, both Benetton and McLaren were up before the beak, Benetton for removing the filter from their fuel filling rig and McLaren for using an automatic up-change on their gearbox. Both teams were acquitted although the Benetton incident did nothing to help the rumours of them cheating.
For the Belgian GP at Spa Eau Rouge was turned into a Chicane by painting lines on the road. A wet/dry qualifying in Spa allowed Rubens Barrichello to take pole, the first for both him and the Jordan team in F1. The excitement and pressure of being so high up in the race, however, was more than Rubens could cope with and he span out from third on lap 20. Schumacher won, Hill was second and Hakkinen, back from his ban, third. It didn't end there though. After the race the plank on the underside of Schumacher's car was deemed to have worn by more than the 10% limit allowed and he was excluded, promoting Hill to victory.
The FIA finally made a decision on Benneton's appeal against Schumacher's black flag at Silverstone and the German was excluded from the next two races in Italy and Portugal. JJ Lehto replaced Schumie. Damon Hill celebrated this even by winning both of the races and starting a challenge for the drivers title. In Italy Williams should have take a 1-2 but David Coulthard run short of fuel on the final lap so ended up classified as sixth. Coulthard led in Portugal but got a bit wayward overtaking a back marker allowing Damon through for the win.
Eddie Irvine managed another race ban, this time suspended for three races, after an incident at the first corner which eliminated Jonny Herbert in the Lotus. Team Lotus filed an administration order after the Italian GP and were wound up in early 1995. Jonny Herbert's contract with Lotus was bought by Tom Walkinshaw who put him into the LIgier team and then placed him in the second car at Benetton.
Schumacher was back for the Grand Prix of Europe at Jerez, Mansell was back for the remainder of the season at Williams and there were other new faces on the grid with Hideki Noda at Larousse and Domineco Schiattarella at Simtek. Remember them? No, nether do I. Schumacher pole. Schumacher win although Damon did lead for a while. However, Williams panicked at his pit stop and sent him out with insufficient fuel so he had to stop again later in the race. Schumacher now led the WDC by 5 points from Hill.
Off to the Asian races, starting in Japan at Suzuka. The big breaking news in Japan was McLaren signing a works engine deal with Mercedes which allowed Eddie Jordan to pick up the Peugoet contract for his team. The Japanese race ended up being aggregated after Morbidelli and Brundle crashed at the same spot leaving a marshal with a broken leg from flying debris. When the race restarted we had the fun of listening to Murray Walker try and make sense of the true race positions based on the aggregate times as Muddly struggled to work out whether the driver leading on the track was actually leading the race. In the end Hill was the winner with Schumacher second bringing the gap between the two drivers down to a single point as the teams moved off to Australia for the final race of the season.
Nigel Mansell parked his moustache on pole in Adelaide but went backwards at the start leaving Schumacher leading from Hill. Damon followed Michael around just a second behind and when Schumacher brushed a wall Damon saw his chance to take the lead. As Hill went for the inside at the next corner Schumacher turned in on him, launching his car in to the air and immediate retirement. Damon limped round to the pits and I, like millions of others, sat pensively hoping that car Zero would come back out on to the track to take the couple of points needed for the title. Unfortunately Schumacher had broken one of the wishbones on Hill's car and he retired. We were then treated to the sight of Michael Schumacher celebrating his first World Title watching one of the big screens at the side of the track. How excited he was, how despondent all British motor racing fans were. Schumie won the title in the most controversial of circumstances.
There is a school of thought that his brush with the wall had damaged his car and he knew the only way to win was to take Damon out, other suggest he was protecting his lead and had every right to be aggressive given what was at stake. I think the second opinion is complete tosh and as Schumacher proved in 1997 he wasn't averse to punting another car off for sake of winning a title.
Anyway, the season ended on a exciting note and Britain had a new hero in Damon Hill. Oh, by the way, Nigel Mansell won the race in Australia and tried to fit his rather bulky frame into a McLaren Mercedes in 1995. He didn't fit!
How to sum up 1994? Sad, exciting, strange, bizarre, annoying. Despite the loss of two drivers and the various other incidents which occurred during the season my abiding memory is not of the shattered Williams by the side of the track in Imola or the burning Benetton in Germany but of that bastard, Michael Schumacher, clenching his fists in excitement and joy as Damon climbed out of his broken Williams. Git! He was a bloody good driver though and Damon won the title in 1996 so I will forgive him.
Constructors Champions Williams had signed Ayrton Senna from McLaren for 1994 and this led Alain Prost to retire. As many know the relationship between the two men was less than harmonious and Alain felt he had little else to prove behind the wheel of an F1 car with four World Championships and 51 race wins. Ayrton was still very driven but reading some of the history of this season one of Senna's key drivers was the need to beat Alain and on more than one occasion he asked Prost to come back and race against him.
Williams kept Damon Hill in the No. 2 seat and Damon carried the Zero on his car, as he had in 1993 as the World Champion wasn't competing so there was no number one car. McLaren replaced Senna with Mika Hakkinen and put Martin Brundle in the second seat, now with Peugoet engines rather than the Ford motors used in 1993.
The biggest challenge to the Williams team was to come from Michael Schumacher and the Benetton Ford team. This was to be a controversial season for both the driver and the team with suggestions that Benetton were not complying with rules regarding electronic driver aids and Schumacher was excluded from two races (more of that later).
14 teams entered the 1994 season and 46 drivers competed at some point during the year. 1994 also saw the return of Mercedes to F1, their first season in the sport since 1955, as engine supplier to the Sauber team. The cars were powered by engines from 8 different manufacturers with the Renault and Ford motors being the class of the field.
Below is the end of season driver photo, sadly very different to the one from the start of the season.
The season started in Brazil and to the delight of the home crowd their hero, Ayrton Senna, put his FW16 Williams on pole. Senna led at the start of the race but Schumacher jumped him at the pit stops. An incident on lap 35 saw an accident involving Eddie Irvine in the Jordan. Irvine was found to be at fault for launching Martin Brundle into a barrel roll and was banned from the next races. The Jordan team appealed, lost and Irvine's ban was extended to 3 races. Up at the front Senna was trying everything he knew to try and catch Schumacher but ended his race trying a bit too hard, spinning off on lap 56. Hill followed the German home whilst down in 6th Karl Wendlinger scored a point for Mercedes on their return to F1.
F1 has a strange habit of staging regional Grands Prix, presumably as the race promoters pay FOM sufficient cash to buy a race, and in 1994 there was a Pacific GP staged at Aidia in Japan and a European at Jerez. The Pacific race was up next. Senna was again on pole but was nurfed out of the race when spun by Mika Hakkinen and then hit by Nicola Larini who was deputising for Jean Alesi in the Ferrari. Schumacher won again, Berger was second in the Ferrari, Hill retired his Williams on lap 50 with transmission failure having worked his way back to second after dropping to ninth in the early stages of the race.
Imola.
What is there to say about this race that hasn't already been said? As an F1 fan since the late 70's I had seen accidents which led to the death of a driver but this hadn't happened since 1982. The event started badly with Rubens Barrichello having a huge crash in his Jordan. The Brazilian was knocked unconscious but had no other significant injuries. He wasn't allowed to race for the remainder of the weekend. In Saturday qualifying season débutante Roland Ratzenberger in the Simtek had a front wing failure and hit a concrete wall at a speed estimated at 190mph. The Austrian didn't survive. F1 was in shock, drivers didn't die in F1 cars anymore, or so we thought.
As ever in F1, even such tragic events are pushed to the back of drivers minds and the event continued. Senna was on pole Schumacher second. There was a race to win, points to be gained, titles to be fought over. At the start of the race Pedro Lamy ran into the back of JJ Lehto's Benetton which had stalled on the grid. This bought out the safety car which led the train around for four laps. At the restart Senna powered away in the lead, next time around his Williams went off the road at Tamburello and hit the concrete wall at the edge of the circuit. The race was red flagged, medical teams descended on the broken Williams. Senna was extracted from the car and taken to hospital after treatment at the circuit but he had suffered a major brain injury. He was placed on life support at the hospital but when this was removed that evening Senna died.
The race was restarted at 2:55 local time and the result would be aggregated over the two parts of the race. In what I still feel was one of the bravest acts by a GP driver Damon Hill was strapped into the cockpit of his Williams with no idea of the cause of his team mates accident. Berger led at the restart and Schumacher and Hill had a coming together which resulted in the Englishman having to pit for a new nose. Schumacher won the race ahead of Nicola Larini in the Ferrari. Mika Hakkinen was third and Damon Hill came back through the field to take a single point for sixth.
At Monaco the first two grid slots were left empty and the places painted with the Brazilian and Austrian flags to commemorate Senna and Ratzenberger. The FIA announced a variety of technical changes to improve driver safety which would be implemented in Spain and Canada. In free practice Karl Wendlinger had a huge accident in his Sauber which left him in a coma for 3 weeks. Sauber withdrew their cars from the rest of the weekend. Williams only entered a single car for Damon Hill but announced that the second car would be driven test driver David Coulthard and Nigel Mansell, when Mansell's Indycar commitments allowed. Schumacher took pole, Hill and Hakkinen tangled on the first lap, eliminating both. Schumacher went on to win the race with Martin Brundle second after choosing a different strategy to most of the other drivers. Away from the race, Pedro Lamy had an accident in testing for Lotus, dislocating his legs and breaking his wrist. Lotus announced that Alex Zannardi would replace him.
In Spain it was decided to introduce a temporary tyre chicane to reduce the speed of the cars. Personally, seeing F1 cars tiptoeing through a bunch of tyres piled up on the track is amongst the most ridiculous things I have seen in F1 but in the climate at that time no one complained.
Andrea Montermini, who replaced Roland Ratzenberger, had a accident which broke his ankle and chipped a bone in his heel in free practice. Schumacher took pole and was comfortably leading the race until he had gear selection problems. Left with only 5th the German continued and even managed to stop in the pits twice and get the car away without stalling. With only one gear Damon Hill easily passed Schumacher but at the end he was still second as other cars fell by the wayside. An astonishing achievement
In Canada another temporary chicane was installed and the various changes to the cars implemented. These included reduction in the size of the diffusers and front wing, improved driver head protection by raising the sides of the cockpit, increase in the weight of the car and strengthening of the wishbones. Holes were also cut in to the airboxes to try and reduce the power of the cars. Schumacher took pole and won the race, Hill was second.
For the French GP Nigel Mansell came back to Williams and was second on the grid to Hill. At the start Schumacher powered between the two Williams cars and never lost the lead. Mansell retired with transmission failure towards the end of the race, Hill followed Schumacher home. On the video below fast forward to about 7 minutes in and watch the speed the Benetton has compared to the Williams off the start line. There had been lots of rumours and muttering about Benetton using both a launch control system and traction control which were specifically prohibited. Events like this certainly didn't help quieten the rumours.
At Silverstone Damon Hill, much to the delight of the crowd, put his Williams on pole. During the formation lap, for whatever reason, Michael Schumacher decided to pass Hill and then let him back in front as they came to form up on the grid. After an aborted first start, due to Coulthard (now back in the Williams) stalling, the race got underway. As a result of not obeying the start procedure Schumacher was given a 5 second stop-go penalty. Benetton took offence at this and started negotiations with the race officials, instructing Schumacher to keep going. As a result of not serving the penalty within 3 laps Schumacher was black flagged. Benetton continued to ignore the officials and Schumie followed Damon home in second place. After the race Schumacher was disqualified and was given a two race ban. This was held on appeal and Schumacher took part in the next race in Germany.
The German crowd were to be disappointed for their hero Schumacher when Ferrari locked out the front row in Hockenheim. There was complete mayhem at the start and 10 cars failed to make it round the first lap. Damon Hill had a coming together with Ukyo Katayam's Tyrrell on the first lap and had to pit for a new nose, forcing David Coulthard to circulate for a second lap with a damaged car from the start line incident. Schumacher retired on lap 20 when his engine failed and Gerhard Berger went on to win the race. Behind the Ferrari the top six was made up of the two Ligiers, the two Footwork cars and the Larousse of Eric Comas. The other major incident of the race involved Jos Verstappen, who had taken over the second Benneton seat from JJ Lehto. During his pit stop the Benetton erupted in to flames. Jos was able to escape the car but it was yet another frightening incident for the 1994 season.
In Hungary Phillipe Alliot replaced Mika Hakkinen at McLaren who was banned for one race for causing the start line incident in Germany. Schumacher took pole, Schumacher won the race with Hill second. Jos Verstappen, sporting a very singed face, came home third.
Meanwhile, both Benetton and McLaren were up before the beak, Benetton for removing the filter from their fuel filling rig and McLaren for using an automatic up-change on their gearbox. Both teams were acquitted although the Benetton incident did nothing to help the rumours of them cheating.
For the Belgian GP at Spa Eau Rouge was turned into a Chicane by painting lines on the road. A wet/dry qualifying in Spa allowed Rubens Barrichello to take pole, the first for both him and the Jordan team in F1. The excitement and pressure of being so high up in the race, however, was more than Rubens could cope with and he span out from third on lap 20. Schumacher won, Hill was second and Hakkinen, back from his ban, third. It didn't end there though. After the race the plank on the underside of Schumacher's car was deemed to have worn by more than the 10% limit allowed and he was excluded, promoting Hill to victory.
The FIA finally made a decision on Benneton's appeal against Schumacher's black flag at Silverstone and the German was excluded from the next two races in Italy and Portugal. JJ Lehto replaced Schumie. Damon Hill celebrated this even by winning both of the races and starting a challenge for the drivers title. In Italy Williams should have take a 1-2 but David Coulthard run short of fuel on the final lap so ended up classified as sixth. Coulthard led in Portugal but got a bit wayward overtaking a back marker allowing Damon through for the win.
Eddie Irvine managed another race ban, this time suspended for three races, after an incident at the first corner which eliminated Jonny Herbert in the Lotus. Team Lotus filed an administration order after the Italian GP and were wound up in early 1995. Jonny Herbert's contract with Lotus was bought by Tom Walkinshaw who put him into the LIgier team and then placed him in the second car at Benetton.
Schumacher was back for the Grand Prix of Europe at Jerez, Mansell was back for the remainder of the season at Williams and there were other new faces on the grid with Hideki Noda at Larousse and Domineco Schiattarella at Simtek. Remember them? No, nether do I. Schumacher pole. Schumacher win although Damon did lead for a while. However, Williams panicked at his pit stop and sent him out with insufficient fuel so he had to stop again later in the race. Schumacher now led the WDC by 5 points from Hill.
Off to the Asian races, starting in Japan at Suzuka. The big breaking news in Japan was McLaren signing a works engine deal with Mercedes which allowed Eddie Jordan to pick up the Peugoet contract for his team. The Japanese race ended up being aggregated after Morbidelli and Brundle crashed at the same spot leaving a marshal with a broken leg from flying debris. When the race restarted we had the fun of listening to Murray Walker try and make sense of the true race positions based on the aggregate times as Muddly struggled to work out whether the driver leading on the track was actually leading the race. In the end Hill was the winner with Schumacher second bringing the gap between the two drivers down to a single point as the teams moved off to Australia for the final race of the season.
Nigel Mansell parked his moustache on pole in Adelaide but went backwards at the start leaving Schumacher leading from Hill. Damon followed Michael around just a second behind and when Schumacher brushed a wall Damon saw his chance to take the lead. As Hill went for the inside at the next corner Schumacher turned in on him, launching his car in to the air and immediate retirement. Damon limped round to the pits and I, like millions of others, sat pensively hoping that car Zero would come back out on to the track to take the couple of points needed for the title. Unfortunately Schumacher had broken one of the wishbones on Hill's car and he retired. We were then treated to the sight of Michael Schumacher celebrating his first World Title watching one of the big screens at the side of the track. How excited he was, how despondent all British motor racing fans were. Schumie won the title in the most controversial of circumstances.
There is a school of thought that his brush with the wall had damaged his car and he knew the only way to win was to take Damon out, other suggest he was protecting his lead and had every right to be aggressive given what was at stake. I think the second opinion is complete tosh and as Schumacher proved in 1997 he wasn't averse to punting another car off for sake of winning a title.
Anyway, the season ended on a exciting note and Britain had a new hero in Damon Hill. Oh, by the way, Nigel Mansell won the race in Australia and tried to fit his rather bulky frame into a McLaren Mercedes in 1995. He didn't fit!
How to sum up 1994? Sad, exciting, strange, bizarre, annoying. Despite the loss of two drivers and the various other incidents which occurred during the season my abiding memory is not of the shattered Williams by the side of the track in Imola or the burning Benetton in Germany but of that bastard, Michael Schumacher, clenching his fists in excitement and joy as Damon climbed out of his broken Williams. Git! He was a bloody good driver though and Damon won the title in 1996 so I will forgive him.
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