Watching the Wheels
My Autobiography
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Paul Panting
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Damon Hill
About this listen
The year 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of Damon Hill's coronation as Formula One world champion. For the first time ever, he tells the story of his journey through the last golden era of the sport, when he took on the greats, including Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher, and emerged victorious as world champion in 1996, stepping out of the shadow of his legendary father, Graham Hill.
Away from the grid, Watching the Wheels: My Autobiography is an astonishingly candid account of what it was like to grow up as the son of one of the country's most famous racing drivers. It also tells the unflinching story of dealing with the grief and chaos that followed his father's tragically early death in an aircraft accident in 1975, when Damon was 15 years old.
Formula One drivers have always been aware of their mortality, and the rush that comes with the danger of racing was as intoxicating for Hill as it had been for his father's generation, until he came face-to-face with catastrophe when his teammate, Ayrton Senna, was killed in 1994. Hill was faced with swirling emotions in light of the death of Senna, which was a defining moment for his generation of drivers, and for the first time ever Hill talks candidly about the impact that Senna had on his life, even as he watched his own son step into motor racing.
Courageously honest and hugely rewarding, Watching the Wheels is a return to the last golden era of F1 racing, whose image still burns ferociously for those who love the sport for what it reveals about human skill in the face of or near certain death.
©2016 Damon Hill (P)2016 Macmillan Digital AudioWhat listeners say about Watching the Wheels
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- Anonymous User
- 30-10-2023
Great book
Love the story and amazing life. It’s great to hear how other people live their lives, and how we have to go through the good and bad, it’s just life I suppose.
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- Ross
- 12-09-2017
Honest
Great emotional story with some awesome F1 insights for any racing fans. Thanks Damon ☺
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- Anonymous User
- 28-11-2018
A really good listen about the craziness of F1
I couldn't put it down. Fantastic insight in behind the scenes of of an underrated world champ.
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- Simon Sproull
- 23-04-2019
Great Book
Loved it. My new hero. Damon Hill. Great insight to a crazy period of F1
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- Nigel Macey
- 09-10-2020
Thoroughly enjoyable, raw and emotional
I found this book quite an emotional read, with many raw truths. A look inside a life within a world we could all be mistaken for thinking we already knew all about. Quite inspirational. Personally I took a lot away from this, as I considered the cross overs with my own life. Damon strikes me as an incredibly intelligent and sensitive guy, I’m certain you would always walk away from a conversation with Damon better for it.
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- Anonymous User
- 31-05-2019
Brilliant Job, Even Sounds like Damon!
Fantastic book, well worth a listen for any big F1 fan. Narrator sounds like Hill!
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- Martin Castilla
- 23-06-2018
A modest Formula 1 World Champion's moving story.
Thoroughly entertaining, and well narrated, Hill presents as a down-to-earth man who earned every single break, half-luck and, ultimately, also earned arguably the sports world's Top Prize: Formula 1 World Champion.
I learned much about Hill's background against his famous & glamorous father's accomplishments, and the punishing trauma for the whole family of his (father's) untimely death.
Owning every inch forward, against quite remarkable odds he moves up in unlikely steps through various formulae to the pinnacle of motor sport, taking chances with minor teams just to get a drive and get paid so that (literally) he could feed his family. In the end it all pays off, but even at that sparkling zenith of success he was questioned and disrespected by his own team, and others.
The drama continued beyond retirement, when demons long suppressed found space to fill his mind with doubt and grief, which he details in the book.
Happily, the book ends with his current good fortune and joyfulness in life, family by his side, as a Formula 1 expert commentator.
It left me highly respecting the man and his immense efforts to get where he got. I highly recommend this book.
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