If you were to flip through the biggest moments in the Formula 1 history books, Damon Hill is at the centre of many of them. The English driver who claimed the 1996 world championship won 22 grands prix and raced against titans including Michael Schumacher and the late Ayrton Senna.
Yet Hill says he never intended to race cars. "I wasn't born thinking about F1 - I actually never had an ambition to race cars," he told this masthead. "It was always motorbikes."
Hill is currently in Australia on a speaking tour to promote his eponymous documentary. The film includes nail-biting title fights and archival footage of dramatic crashes, but its core is love and grief: exploring the death of his father Graham, who died in a plane crash when Damon was 15. Hill learned of the accident on television and had to leave the living room to tell his mother, which he described as triggering "pandemonium and horror".
In the documentary, Hill says: "I remember feeling that I would have liked to be with him on the plane. I didn't want to be here, I would have given up or exchanged places with someone else on the plane."