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The 1996 F1 champion bares all in 'Hill', a new documentary coming to Sky and streaming service NOW in July
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00:00My whole life, people had been asking me if I was going to be a racing driver like my dad.
00:05Graham Hill, one of motor racing's greatest characters.
00:09And there I was, within a point of winning the world championship.
00:14I'm always shocked when people say it's brutally honest and I don't understand how
00:18you can tell a story without being honest about how you're affected by it. So I think that's the
00:24point of telling a story is, is to get across how it's been, how you've been affected by it or
00:31what motivated you or, you know, I think the only way you can do that is to, is to describe everything
00:37that you felt and experienced. It started the day my dad died. The crash wiped out the hill racing team.
00:46Damon was joking and mocking about but he was one of the saddest people I'd ever come across in my
00:51life. I think it's captured something of the the struggle to get to be a world champion and I
00:58think the the things that motivated me and I think the emotional parts of my life which are so important,
01:05my family and my wife Georgie and you know it's not just about wanting to win a motor race.
01:14Was I a racing driver just because my dad was one? I needed to let go of the past.
01:20Very few people ever get a chance to be in Formula One let alone win a championship so
01:26it's a very special thing and we're celebrating 75 years of Formula One so I'm in there somewhere.
01:33Every driver wants to be world champion but I don't think they fully appreciate what it means to be
01:40one of the winners in such a prestigious sport as Formula One.
01:46You're aware of the journey we've been on and what I've been able to drag out of myself.
01:52David Hill wins and I've got to stop because I've got a lump in my throat.
02:08too.
02:14to be
02:16so
02:17i read that.

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