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Message: [QUOTE="RayInTorontoCanada, post: 57793, member: 1684"] Williams were already getting ready to dump Hill before he (Hill) even started his 1996 WDC season! They (Williams and Head and, perhaps, Renault) felt that Hill didn't do a good enough job in 1995 and, having already gotten rid of Coulthard (for Villeneuve), they decided they were going to bring in Frentzen for 1997. So, Hill drove his entire 1996 season never knowing that he was going to be let go regardless of whether or not he won the Championship. Williams wanted a 'Schumacher Beater' and judged that Frentzen would be that 'Schumacher Beater' given how they'd gone in the junior ranks. They made a mistake (obviously). They quite obviously over-estimated Frentzen and under-valued Hill. [/QUOTE]