Damon Hill on his drivers, races and performances of the 2019 F1 season
Photo: Motorsport Images
Sky Sports F1 signed up 1996 Formula 1 World Champion Damon Hill to their pundit roster for the 2012 Grand Prix season. He was an immediate hit and Damon has been providing fascinating insight since then. He never ducks a difficult question, and his forthright views have been a mainstay of Sky’s Formula 1 coverage, not to mention his off-the-wall Twitter profile.
Just before Damon sat down to his Christmas lunch, he sent over his thoughts on the 2019 season.
You can hear more of his analysis of the year in the Motor Sport season review podcast with Damon and Karun Chandhok
More expert verdicts on the 2019 F1 season
A few more teams taking the fight to Mercedes. Thank God!
Charles Leclerc at Monza. Pure F1 poetry.
(The Italian Grand Prix saw Leclerc’s second consecutive race win and the Frenchman dominated the weekend for the country’s national team.)
Brazil was great. But bring on those restarts!
Restarts boosted the drama at Interlagos Photo: Motorsport Images
Very sadly, not what we wanted to see for Robert Kubica.
Oops. Do I really have to say?
As close to perfect as you’d want. Thankfully he’s still human.
Sack myself.
They are doing a good job. But we miss Bernie.
At least they are trying. Who knows?
That would be telling.
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