His career has not been without controversy, including being twice involved in collisions in the final race of a season that determined the outcome of the world championship, with Damon Hill in 1994 in Adelaide, and with Jacques Villeneuve in 1997 in Jerez.

Following two successful years in CART, Villeneuve moved into Formula One with the front running Williams team, alongside Damon Hill.

Damon Graham Devereux Hill ( born 17 September 1960 ) is a retired British racing driver from England.

Damon Hill at the 1995 French Grand Prix

Damon Hill driving for the WilliamsF1 | Williams Formula One team in Canadian Grand Prix | Montreal in 1995.

* Damon Hill

The racing driver Graham Hill lived at Mill Hill for much of his adult life, as of course did his son Damon Hill.

Lister Cars, makers of Lister Storm, Le Mans racing cars, are based in the town, and in nearby Dorking, while P1 International was founded here in 2000 by ex-Formula One World Champion Damon Hill.

In an attempt to keep the links between acts as fresh as the performances themselves, the so-called " golden mic " was used by, amongst others, Kylie Minogue, Meat Loaf, Chris Eubank, Damon Albarn, Harry Hill, Jack Dee, Lulu and Jarvis Cocker.

Graham Hill and his son Damon are the only father and son pair both to have won the Formula One World Championship.

In 1999, Damon Hill, Michael Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve all crashed into the same wall which had the slogan Bienvenue au Québec ( Welcome to Quebec in English ) on it.

* Damon Hill, 1996 F1 World Champion, in 1999.

He ran as high as second and was running third, having passed the Williams of Damon Hill and Alain Prost, before encountering a fuel pressure problem.

Silverstone has produced many race wins by British drivers, such as Peter Collins ( 1958 ), Jackie Stewart ( 1969, 1971 ), James Hunt ( 1977 ), John Watson ( 1981 ), Nigel Mansell ( 1987, 1991, 1992 ), Damon Hill ( 1994 ), Johnny Herbert ( 1995 ), David Coulthard ( 1999, 2000 ) and Lewis Hamilton ( 2008 ).

The following season, Jordan was powered by Honda and proved capable of race wins when Schumacher followed team mate Damon Hill to second place in the rain-soaked Belgian Grand Prix.

Past entertainment has included Bill Cosby, Sinbad, Incubus, Barenaked Ladies, Better than Ezra, Alan Jackson, Third Eye Blind, Randy Travis, Faith Hill, Collective Soul, Blues Traveler, Goo Goo Dolls, David Spade, Kevin Nealon, Damon Wayans and Jimmy Fallon.

These never won a race, but drivers including Damon Hill, Ukyo Katayama, Mark Blundell and Andrea de Cesaris scored some acceptable results with them.

Other notable occasions in Budapest include first Grand Prix wins for Damon Hill in 1993, Fernando Alonso ( in 2003 ), the first Grand Prix winner from Spain, who also became the youngest ever driver to win a GP, Jenson Button in an incident-packed race in 2006, and Heikki Kovalainen in 2008.

A particularly audacious pass on Damon Hill in Canada was just one example of his strong racecraft.

Berger nearly won the German Grand Prix for the second time in his career before his Renault V10 engine blew up, handing victory to Damon Hill in the Williams.

Only eight drivers were classified finishers ( two of whom were five laps behind, one of whom was Coulthard ) and Damon Hill secured a victory ahead of team mate Ralf Schumacher to record the previously underperforming Jordan team's first Formula One win in its history, and a 1-2 to top it off.

The race was notable for the dominance of Ayrton Senna where he won the race by over 1 minute from Damon Hill, having advanced from fifth to first in the opening lap.

* Damon Hill ( born 1960 ), former Formula One driver and 1996 World Champion

After both siblings failed their 11 plus exam, they started attending Stanway Comprehensive School, where Damon described himself as being " really unpopular " and " to a lot of people ".

By 1991, Anderson and Frischmann had broken up ; Frischmann started dating Damon Albarn of the group Blur.

In the show which aired on June 5, 2007, Kimmel sent his sidekick Guillermo to the Ocean's Thirteen premiere to interview Matt Damon, though when he started the interview, he said that they were out of time, at which point Damon assumed that Kimmel sent him.

The decade started with Rob Reiner's Misery ( 1990 ), based on the book by Stephen King, with Kathy Bates as an unbalanced fan named Annie who terrorizes, in her care, an incapacitated author named Paul ( James Caan ); in one horrifying scene, she ' hobbles ' his ankles so that he can't escape, a battered wife who left her sadistic husband to find a better life was vengefully pursued in Sleeping with the Enemy ( 1991 ), Curtis Hanson's The Hand That Rocks the Cradle ( 1992 ), with Rebecca De Mornay as a nanny intent on seeking revenge against her dead obstetrician husband's patient ( Annabella Sciorra ), Unlawful Entry ( 1992 ) with Ray Liotta as cop being obsessed with a woman he saved, Barbet Schroeder's suspenseful Single White Female ( 1992 ), with Bridget Fonda and her obsessed roommate-from-hell Jennifer Jason Leigh, Harold Becker's Malice ( 1993 ) with Alec Baldwin and Nicole Kidman, and lastly Anthony Minghella's psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley ( 1999 ) with Matt Damon being obsessed with, and then assuming the identity of, Jude Law.

Omaha started second favorite for the Kentucky Derby, with his supporters including Damon Runyon, who tipped the colt despite decribing him as " a big, leggy, green thing that seems to invariably get into a lot of trouble ".

He has started his own record company, Kalonji Records ; which in a joint venture with Damon Dash Music Group and Koch Records, released the album, The Overstanding, in November 2006.

In a reversal of Hungary, Damon Hill stalled on the dummy grid and started from the back.

Damon Hill, who started the race from pole position, spun out while leading on lap 30 with an apparent gearbox problem, which was later found to be a suspension failure.

Damon Hill started the race from the pole position alongside Michael Schumacher.

Schumacher's rival in the Drivers ' Championship, Damon Hill, started fourth amidst pressure from the British media after poor performances at previous races.

Damon Hill had started the race from pole position, but dropped to 8th after spinning twice in the opening laps, before another spin into the pit wall on lap 12 ended his race.

Damon Huard started the season and compiled a 4 win and 5 loss record.

Formed around 1990 by high school friends Damon Mitchell ( lead vocals, guitar, harmonica ), Jeff Hondubura ( guitar, vocals ), Sky Onosson ( bass, vocals, keyboards ) and Jason Kane ( drums, percussion ) started playing blues-influenced rock.

Damon Allen started playing football by the age of six for Valencia Park Pop Warner in San Diego.

In 1999, Damon started teaching audio engineering part-time, and worked with local school districts to offer high-school students a chance to work in a real recording studio environment.

After that tour lead singer Damon Albarn started to write songs with a very British feel.

* The Damon Runyon Stakes is a thoroughbred horse race run every December at Aqueduct Race Track.

World champion racer Damon Hill called on Formula One not to reschedule saying that if the race went ahead “ we will forever have the blight of association with repressive methods to achieve order ”.

Herbert and Matchett both claimed their maiden Formula One wins in the 1995 British Grand Prix, a race perhaps made most famous for the fact that Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill crashed out of the race while battling for the lead.

Damon Hill, son of former world champion Graham Hill, made his debut with the Brabham team, but did not qualify for the race.

Mika Häkkinen, Andrea Chiesa, Damon Hill and Eric van de Poele were the four drivers who failed to qualify for the race-for Häkkinen, it would prove to be the only race in the season where he failed to qualify.

Stefano Modena, Eric van de Poele, Andrea Chiesa and Damon Hill were the four drivers who didn't qualify for the race.

The last race of the season was in Adelaide and Senna prevented the Williams team from a clean sweep of the season's pole positions by taking pole ahead of Prost, Damon Hill ( Williams-Renault ), Michael Schumacher ( Benetton-Ford ), Mika Häkkinen ( McLaren ) and Gerhard Berger ( Ferrari ).

At the start of the race, Damon Hill crashed into the back of Mika Häkkinen's McLaren just before the St.

The race was won by British driver Damon Hill driving a Williams FW16 taking his first win of the season.

Damon Hill and his team, Williams, were second in their respective championships, as well as second in the race, and were Schumacher and Benetton's main rivals over the season.

Michael Schumacher took his fifth victory from six races, finishing ahead of main title rival Damon Hill – although he was 33 points behind Schumacher after the race – who was over half a minute behind Schumacher at the race's conclusion.

Damon Hill won the race, while second-place finisher Michael Schumacher was disqualified due to failing to serve a stop-go penalty ( for overtaking Hill on the warm-up lap ) in time.

The race is remembered for an incident involving the two title contenders Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher which forced both to retire and resulted in Schumacher winning the World Drivers championship.

The race, contested over 72 laps, was won by Damon Hill for the Williams team after starting from second position.

The race, contested over 44 laps, was won by Michael Schumacher after an intense battle with Damon Hill.